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@P_J_Richards Absolutely... here's a personal favourite of mine - The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808–1810).

@offshoreodd Probably the first time since 1621 that members of the genus Meleagris have a Happy Thanksgiving as well...

@SuperstitionSat @AdamChronicles Can't beat a hearty goats' blood sacrifice to quieten the hungry, restless Greek dead on a Saturday afternoon, eh? Fun for the whole family and all.

Image is allegedly by Theodor Kittelsen, can't verify that with absolute certainty, though.

And one for @RGeirsson!

“One employs colours, but one paints with feeling."

And the modernists loved him for it 200 years later. French master of still life Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was born #OTD 1699 in Paris.

"And what does ridiculous mean? Isn't everyone constantly being or seeming ridiculous? Besides, nearly all clever people now are fearfully afraid of being ridiculous, and that makes them unhappy" (Brothers Karamazov)

#DostoevskySaturday

"‘O great Orgoglio, greatest under skye,
O hold thy mortall hand for ladies sake!
Hold for my sake, and doe him not to dye,
But vanquisht thine eternall bondslave make,
And me, thy worthy meed, unto thy leman take.’"(Spenser)

#31daysofHalloween

🎨 Frank C. Papé

"Like fire burns his blood!
...
Almost, it seems,
the woodbirds are speaking to me.
Is it a spell
that lies in the blood?" (Wagner)

Bathing in a slain dragon's blood does not only grant invulnerability but makes you understand the language of birds as well

#mythologymonday

@Moonpiglit @SuperstitionSat Yes. You'd better. This safety advice was brought to you by the Association of the Watchmaking Gnomes of Switzerland (AWGS). Buy a new clock. Stay safe.