Writing about the folklore of fungi today and love this bit of Lithuanian lore: Mushrooms were thought to be the fingers of Velnias, the Baltic god of death, reaching up from the Underworld and offering his fungi fingers as food for the poor.

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The O’Rourke family, descended from the Kings of Briefne and later Counts of Leitrim, were among the Wild Geese who escaped to France following the Williamite Wars. A branch of the family emigrated to the Baltics during the reign of Empress Elizabeth (1741-62).

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Born Punk is a adventure taking the genre into a slightly different direction. We're bringing humor to a dark place!

And cybernetic pirate cats to a Baltic island.

You can wishlist it here:
✅ GOG: https://t.co/nAvMxf5byw
✅ Steam: https://t.co/nwz3ut6BKA

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The Baltic States are celebrating
103 years independence this year.

トーリスくんの誕生日は2月16日でした。
エドァルドくんの誕生日は今日です、おめでとう!
ライヴィスくんの誕生日まであと267日です。

 
 

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In Baltic Ragana is a who rarely walks anywhere, but instead transforms herself into a crow and flies. She is the ruler of night, winter, birth, death, fertility and menopause, which begins with the touch of her red wand.

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Memory of a wooded island in the Baltic Sea (Oak trees by the Sea) (1834-35) Carl Gustav Carus (Germany, 1789–1869). The artist studied under Caspar David Friedrich.

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Watercolor by Kazuo Kasai.

🎨🌩🔥~ Baltic Clouds ~🔥⛅️☕️

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Tomorrow at 2 PM ET, "My Favorite War" filmmaker Ilze-Burkovska-Jacobsen holds a live chat on the feature with Hsiang Chin Moe, BFA Animation Chair ! The film (which screened in our Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders) is available now to preview.

https://t.co/1DXopZL1CX

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I made a woodcut topographic map of Skyrim! 11 layers of Baltic Birch plywood, colored with acrylic inks and varnished in Shellac. Measures 14x18" and its highest point (the Throat of the World) stands 2.75" tall.

For more, bigger pictures: https://t.co/uXj09njXHv

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My first-ever palaeoart illustration appeared in paper today! The paper by V. Baranov looked at Gedanoleria fly larvae locked in Baltic amber. Here is my reconstruction of the flies, maggots and things they fed on.

I can call myself a "professional" palaeoartist now.

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Baltica mona china >:3

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The Battle of Svolder was a naval battle fought between Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and the kings of Denmark and Sweden, along with the earl of Lade. The battle is said to have occurred in the western Baltic Sea (c. 1000). This conflict is mentioned in the Old Norse King's sagas.

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The war between Arendelle and Russia explodes into a bonkers bedlam! Mattias tries to stop the Russians from reaching Arenfjord by outflanking the Baltic Fleet - and unleashing Hilde on the Grand Duke.

The Battle of Arenfjord: https://t.co/RgbDlCVrhR

"Werewolf," by

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The Russian Empire's elite Baltic Fleet is Arendelle-bound. Led by Grand Duke Yaraslaf, Arendelle's champions and navy face a desperate struggle to stop the Baltic Fleet from bombarding the fjord. Mattias faces the fight of his life.

"Mattias, Hilde, and Yaraslaf" by

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Anna recommissions the fearsome Warship Muspelheim as Arendelle prepares for the Countess’s return.

Anna’s government preps the navy to defend against the Romanov family’s elite Baltic Fleet: https://t.co/jDT8hFuDa5

“Mistress of the night,” by

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