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For the Norse Mythology, the Sea Serpent Jörmungandr was thrown into the depths of the ocean by Odin. Its body is so large that it encircles all the visible world & that is why it is called the world serpent & Sailors sometimes mistake its back for islands. #FolkloreThursday
🕊️Russian history of Alaska is fascinating and worth discovering.
On September 22, 1784 Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founded Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island, the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska. #OTD
Photo: Unalaska, Aleutian Islands.
@RusEmbUSA
California Sea Lion
The California sea lion is a coastal eared seal native to western North America but there are three species of California sea lion, divided by geographical divisions: Pacific coast, Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands.
In 1831 Charles Darwin set sail aboard the HMS Beagle, eventually arriving at the Galápagos Islands. Sneak peak of some of the illustrations from ‘The Human Race’ for Quarto Books. #illustration #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #charlesdarwin #publishing
Today is the day of several advocations of Our Lady, among them Our Lady Of Coromoto, an advocation worshipped as much in Venezuela as in the Canary Islands. This advocation, which as Our Lady Of Guadalupe and Our Lady Of Candelaria, is believed to have appeared ... 1/
@RinTheYordle Happy birthday Rin! Hope you’re having a nice day! Heres my ocs Rat and Cat from a little game concept project i made, they farm, go mining in dungeons, and explore islands.
Reminder that free-roaming cats are responsible for 14% of extinctions of small mammals, birds, and amphibians on islands. Below, my illustration of a cat-killed Stejnegers Petrel. #catsindoors https://t.co/sF3hXoUGFi
Finished my #concept #sketches #sketch of Tom Melbourne and his father, Fred, in their hometown, Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands. Learn more about them in “Sam in New York,” coming Aug 28, 2020! #saminnyc #digitalart #ibispaint #ibisPaintX #artistsofinstagram
STRANGERS BOUND BY FATE: a “Boy-Love” comic book of tropical islands. Presented by author Kuang Hsia Chia and Carol Huang from Sharp Point Press.
Anyway, I've decided to post something related to my secret project. This AG craft was made by Rapier Developments, located on British Islands. They call this model "Lampard-16", prototype of which was shown first in 2153...
The date is August 14th, 2020. A team of Scientists has been kidnapped, and are being held captive on the Lingshan islands. Can Raptor team rescue them? Or will something... inhuman, cause their mission to go FUBAR?
Streaming Crysis live at: https://t.co/oR1pXaZib5
@DarkLemonQueen Hi there! I'm Minxyuu, a freelance artist and streamer from Canary Islands. I like to draw cute and powerful characters. Nice to meet yall ♥
Now I'm taking commissions of illustrations, portraits and twitch emotes! Check more on:
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Existing in the outskirts of mortal civilization, the gods dwell in a series of cascading islands. Where the rivers of life forever rush down into the clouds. Perhaps these rivers are the rain we experience below? Only the gods can say...
#writing #fantasy #mythology #art
The favourite gals from The Dairy Islands. 🥛🧀 #dimension20 #ACrownOfCandy @dimension20show
In Scottish Folklore the 'Each-uisge' is a mythological water horse akin to a Kelpie with supernatural powers that inhabits the coastal waters around the Highlands & Islands. #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs @HistoriumU @CrystalPonti @DeeDeeChainey @WillowWinsham @TheSacredIsle
Starry starry night.. 💫✨🌠 We never get tired of these shots of comet #NEOWISE ☄️ and what a better way to watch this natural phenomenon on one of the splendid Wadden Islands.
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Today's #FolkloreThursday is island folklore. According to myth, #Blackbeard punished a mutiny by marooning the crew on the barren Dead Chest Island in the British Virgin Islands. Each mutineer was given a bottle of rum in the hope they'd get drunk, belligerent & kill each other!
Enjoy #WorldSnakeDay with these beauties! ⠀
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From the book: "Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands..." By Marcus Catesby (1683-1749).
Discover the book online: https://t.co/lrxaokLsro