☄️There were great masses of towering stone, carven into alien designs. Light filtered down from a sky of no assignable colour in baffling directions over a line of gigantic hieroglyphed, hexagonal pedestals surmounted by cloaked, ill-defined Shapes🎨James McCarthy☄️#Lovecraftian

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In 276 BC the Hellenistic king Pyrrhus famously remarked upon departing Sicily, 'Oh what a wrestling ground we are leaving for the Carthaginians and Romans to fight over.' He was proved right when, 12 years later, the First Punic War erupted

Artwork by © Johnny Shumate.

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Did you know?
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The ancient name of Africa was Alkebulan. Alkebu-lan “mother of mankind” or “garden of Eden”.” Alkebulan is the oldest and the only word of indigenous origin. It was used by the Moors, Nubians, Numidians, Khart-Haddans (Carthagenians), and Ethiopians.

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A sneak peek at "The Cobots Of Carthage" from my next cartoon strip comic book "Time's Rambler" - Vol. 3.

You can still pick up a copy of the previous two volumes from the "Mooretoons Publishing" website here: https://t.co/0dYx6VZO1I

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three Carthages by Turner

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Eustache Le Sueur - Consecration of a Carthusian Church

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'The thre son[n]es of Noe dyuyded þe warld in þre p[ar]tes....' &
'The cyte of Ierusalem standes fayr emange hylles'

BL Add MS 37049; 1460-1500; A Carthusian miscellany of poems; a Yorkshire or Lincolnshire Carthusian monastery; ff.2v,3r
https://t.co/HbEq6NQdwO

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August 27, 1664: Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán dies.

Zurbarán's richly coloured "The Adoration of the Kings" was painted for the Carthusian monastery at Jerez in Spain. It is dated 1638, and signed “Painter to the King”,

🎨 "The Adoration of the Kings", 1638

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Luckily I recorded you bullying me, a fan.

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Happy birthday to Walt Kelly, the genius behind the comic strip POGO, which ruthlessly satirized Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon and the KKK from 1949 to 1975. One of the greats.

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今週のイラスト投下。
CoCPC:Lydia MacArthur(リディア・マッカーサー)
青いドレス

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Oh, it gets better!
Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven used that plastic model to design the MacArthur for their classic novel THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE
https://t.co/QD9yhFxiRp

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Support free speech & ! Own this print of Barr, Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, VP Pence, Birx, Fauci, Ivanka, Jared, Eric, Don Jr, Trump, Pompeo, Meadows, Kellyanne, Yamiche, Miller, McConnell, Graham, McCarthy, Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, & Melania

https://t.co/dH4lvwaFjp

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Having avoided the blockading Carthaginian fleet, Agathocles of Syracuse landed in Africa near Cape Bon with about 14,000 men in 310BC

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In such a night
Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
Upon the wild sea banks, and waft her love
To come again to Carthage.

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Caitlin McCarthy and Parallel Teeth channel Cheerios' positive energy into a happy and vibrant new ad > https://t.co/SltJnYEHxU

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Harley Quinn is an all-star, extra-sized sendoff worthy of Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel—from , Sami Basri, , & Ray McCarthy, , , , , Annette Kwok, , and ! Out Tuesday.

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