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An inspirational female artist who loved the natural world, especially insects. Maria Merian lived in 1600’s & loved art & insects. She studied the metamorphic lifecycle, unlocking mysteries that abounded since Pliny the Elder. She painted what she discovered. My all-time No 1

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Yes, I'm really fascinated by this computer animation.
It's so realistic!

According to an estimate by Pliny the Younger, witness of the phenomenon, the height of the eruptive cloud, indicated according to modern units of measurement, may have reached 26 km.

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2021-01-02

walked to the with the same modest demeanour as if it had been a private When his first entered the palace, she turned around to face the steps and the people and said: "I enter here such a woman as I would wish to be when I leave."

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2020-10-27

A letter writing bear?

We'll call it...

Pliny the Pooh.

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2020-08-30

There was supposed to be more, but I erased it, made this sketch bigger and doodled to fill the space ahaha 😅
     

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2020-08-10

IDENTITY V

1. violinist/antonio
2. grave keeper/andrew
3. entomologist/melly pliny
4. evil reptilian/luchino

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2020-07-15

Lightning has long been considered an almost supernatural power. According to Pliny the Elder: "To bite off a piece from wood that has been struck by lightning and then to apply it to the tooth, is a sure remedy, they say, for tooth ache."

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2020-07-10

Bug girl! I love bugs so I’m so excited for her ;3;

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2020-05-23

Pliny Nomellini
(Italian painter)
1866 - 1943
Midday
1912

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2020-03-07

A Roman phalera from a horse-harness found in Germany. The centre has the emperor either Claudius or Nero. PLINIO PRAEF EQ is engraved on it, Pliny the Elder was a cavalry commander in lower Germany during the mid 1stC and it could be connected to him. Now in the British museum.

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2020-01-23

Monopods (dwarflike creatures with a single foot) get an early mention in Aristophanes’ 413BC The Birds. Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (77CE) recounts travelers tales that these monsters are to be found in India.

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2019-10-24

Extraordinary scenes in 1966 as the BBC grapples with Pliny's account of geese marching 1000 miles from northern Gaul to Rome.

https://t.co/XkHOGz52pQ
[segment begins around 38:40]

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2019-08-29

Like much else in the bestiary, the belief that hedgehogs stole fruit originates from Pliny's Natural History [Book 8, 56]: To prepare for winter, hedgehogs roll on fallen apples which stick to their spines, then taking one or more in their mouths, carry them to hollow trees.

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2019-08-12

Added a cool baby (what's up?) for MBMBAM, and Pliny the Elder with a zombie that may have taken some unfortunate medical advice and drilled a hole in their head for .

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2018-11-15

'The House in Athens' part of a letter by Pliny the Younger written in the 1st- 2nd century A.D tells of Athenodorus who's haunted by a spectre in chains (thought to have inspired Marley's Ghost) here's some images from mine and graphic novel adaptation

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2018-10-11

Crystal gazing was practiced by ancient civilizations in North and South America, Egypt, Persian, China. Pliny the Elder tells of Celtic Druids of Gaul, Britain, &Ireland. Burne-Jones uses spheres as the home of unrealized worlds and possibilities.

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2018-09-27

Team H3AV3N
Pliny (Melky9417) - Spirit () - Neige ()

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2018-09-02