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A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool.

This minstrel appears to also be a Musketeer!

🎨The Wandering Minstrel - Rob Alexander

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2022-03-16

Dressing up for the occasion on the island of Hopeless, Maine

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2022-03-10

According to the anonymous poet of the Third Edda, Odin is a Bruins fan who enjoys wearing an ornate, woolen robe embroidered with the team’s logo.

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2022-03-10

In the 1760s, aristocratic British men donned large wigs with a small hat or feather at the top. The men who took up this fashion trend brought it back from their "Grand Tour" across Continental Europe in which they intended to "deepen cultural knowledge."

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2022-03-10

Asya and Dmitriy Kosin are Ukrainian artists who create a wide range of paper sculptures. They are especially famous for extravagant paper costumes, such as gigantic baroque wigs and stylizations of bridal costumes from various countries.
https://t.co/MpP69RpbNo

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2022-03-10

Luisa Casati transformed herself into a living work of art, even her pet cheetahs had jewelled collars, and one costume pierced with illuminated arrows gave her electric shocks. She was buried with her false eye-lashes and beloved (stuffed) dog Spider...

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2022-03-09

Some of the best, wyrd fashions come from surrealist art where the artists take liberties with space and reality. Spanish artist, Remedios Varo, painted clothing that was reminiscent of the past while balancing futuristic and fantastical aspects.

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2022-03-09

Legend that the day before his death, Richard de Clare saw a woman dressed in white on the river’s edge washing bloody & armour. When he asked whose clothes they were, she said, “yours”, & vanished! Was she a banshee foretelling his death?! 🎨?

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2022-03-09



A rat probably doesn’t spring to mind as heroic. But the specially trained African giant pouched rats save lives by detecting land mines (or tuberculosis samples). They can sniff out land mines and scratch at the surface to let people know where one is buried.

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2022-03-03

Call me old fashioned, but an animal hero I often turn to is Aesop’s quiet Tortoise, who shakes off the Hare’s cocky bravado. Some of Aesop’s life may be apocryphal, but as a 7thc bce former Greek slave, he knew pain & struggle —often his underdogs won the day 🐢

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2022-03-03

Our ADHD D&D teaching Kickstarter goes live on 22nd March 5pm GMT
WIP art of a flying pup and other details
We have Subclasses, creatures, spells and so much more!

https://t.co/RBAaLWWAt2

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2022-03-02

The of people who have so much in their heads they need a second...


by Remedios Varo

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2022-03-02

The Bake-kujira is a mythical Japanese supernatural being from western Japan. It is supposedly a large ghostly skeleton whale and is said to be accompanied by strange birds and fish

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2022-03-02


A dragon is a mythical creature breathing fire & having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, & a long tail. It appears in the folklore of many world cultures, considered both benevolent and malevolent according to region and belief system.
🖼Antonello Venditti

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2022-03-02


Once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, & he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.— Susan Cooper

The Boggart is an ogre like wyrd animal/creature who haunts houses, fields & marshes.

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2022-03-02

The Legion of Super-Pets debuted in DC Comics in February 1962. It included Krypto the Superdog, Streaky the Supercat, Beppo the Super-Monkey, & Comet the Super-Horse. Later additions included Bat-Cow & Flexi the Plastic Bird.

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2022-03-02

Vintage wooly mammoth illustration from

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2022-02-24