UniversalCompendiumThe Stone of El Peñol: 700 steps to the clouds and several moments of dread.
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None of us is getting out of here alive, so let's savour some of the delights of the eye, the beauty, whimsy, and nonsense the world lays at our feet, whilst we can.
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Woodstock Easter joy
https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1festivals/woodtsck-peanuts-easter-egg.htm
Queen Margherita of Italy, after whom the pizza Margherita is said to be named. By Michele Gordigiani, 1872.
A Titan about to chuck a rock at the Olympian gods. By Abraham Hesselink, c.1910–11.
https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/hesselink/titan-abraham-hesselink-sculpture.htm
Building detail, La Boca, Buenos Aires.
Coat of arms of Italian military leader Bartolomeo Colleoni, who, as a linguistic pun on his family name, asked to include—yes—testicles on it, and that is what he got. For the sake of decency, they were later softened into upside-down hearts. Miniature painting, c. 1450.
Delicate lilacs on a ledge, by Benedicte Scheel, 1890.
https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1garden/lilacs-still-life-painting-scheel.htm
Beautiful bacteria (Q fever)
https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1science/bacteria-q-fever-disease-microscope.htm
Death’s-head hawkmoth: harbinger of death and other unpleasant things. By William Home Lizars (d. 1859)
Nazarenos (deifnitely not to be confused with the cross-burners) are penitents who take part in Holy Week processions.
