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I know a Japanese guy. At 14 years of age, he was sat down by his parents and given a talk about how his life would pan out. Science degree, technician, trainee manager...20 years later...Managing director of the family engineering company. He's now an artist in Finland.

Visited The Mart Showhouse yesterday and saw some beautiful rooms.

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This contraption is dredging the pond in Graceland Cemetery.

Anyone had success with orchids? Two of ours are thriving, while the third one is in a limbo. I thought it was dead, but a broken stem shows it’s green and alive.

It's wild how rural the edge of a much smaller Athens was, 130 years ago.

What do you do if you make a mistake, or forgot to say something?

There's nothing with this 500 year old wall. Apart from the (predictably) poor modern repairs.

Thatch and new concrete are an odd combination.

Italians have been buying Tuff (Tufo Volcanico) for thousands of years. It's still popular for non-load bearing walls, landscaping and interior feature walls.

According to this book, it seems to be a myth that apprentices usually worked with their father, and that they found their apprenticeship locally. Completely the opposite actually. BTW, some of these apprentices seem to have more annual holidays than many modern day Americans.

Cornices, Eaves and Sills are NOT simply architectural fluff. Note the effect of vortices on the first photo

A Scottish friend is in Italy at the moment, and just asked: "How do they fight fires in those tiny medieval lanes?" The reply...

Socrates's prison, with a view of very different Athens 1890s

Italians describe this sky as: “The tiny sheep are in the washing basket”

Ancient Greek designs, as recorded by 19th century German art historians

The Tower of Radakan, Persian built in the 13the century

South of chancel #StCatherineBatheaston #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday Perpendicular style 3-light window with cusped #Ogee lights and dagger motif in tracery. Mullions rise from cil to head creating three panels forming the lights. Bars from each apex create the six daggers

Grinding arsenic 1912 Arsenic was a popular product in paint, coloured wallpaper and a range of other products

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Westernmost Colossus of the Temple of Re, Abu Simbel 1840s

1850s Damascus Traditional clay plaster and roof ventilation, probably displaying traditional construction methods, not much different to those built a millennia earlier.

Not cobbles. Setts.

Someone once commented that these NSW mugshots weren't professionally presented. Maybe. But they were ingenious and should still be done today. They presented the subject as you'd see them standing in the street, or in a pub. As opposed to bleached lighting like, a rabbit caught in headlights

Aerialist Betty Fox jumping rope on the roof of the Sheraton Hotel to promote their "Dance of Death" which will be performed on Memorial Day Evening at Sportsman's Park, Chicago 1963

Building a straw pavilion at Uni Westminster with architecture students, ACAN and Bluesky friends. 🧵Last Day Enjoy, it's In London around the Forum at Uni Westminster Harrow Campus. First plaster layer on, be gentle.

The downside of making a podcast, is needing to understand this stuff.

Several Roman flooring materials: - Stone mosaic - Marble tile - Terracotta pavers. #mosaicmonday #cbm

Terms like 'Carved' and 'sculpted' are used to describe ancient stone items such as this. The fact that a large part of the work was done with a drill is usually skimmed over.

Not only can they win, Flying Foxes (Pteropus) can see underwater.

Remains of the old church at Kippen with a view across the Carse of Forth to (I think) Ben Gullipen. #Scotland #Photography

Chapter House of the Island Priory of Inchmahome in the Lake of Menteith. Retains a roof as it was later used as a burial place for the Earls of Menteith. #Photography #Scotland

Introduction à la Rome antique pour enfants : buff.ly/nTTIe3N #RomeAntique

The wonderful pyramid of Cestius, a probably Nubian inspired after the Roman fighting the Kingdom of Meroë, in modern Sudan. The steep pitch ~70 differs from the Egyptian's ~50, but as the only large pyramid many Europeans ever saw, it therefore influenced their understanding of them. #nubia

I wonder what Erich von Däniken would make of this?

Lath and plaster. The model of the Statue of Liberty, possibly 1:1

The Colosseum 1821

Roman aqueduct, Antibes, France. The army discovered the ancient aqueduct, restored them and put them back into use at the end of the 18th century.

Bricks and balconies... Italian style.

And the mother-in-law's artichokes will shortly look amazing too

Any guesses as to what these are? TBH, I was quite surprised

Save the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL) | 38 Degrees share.google/wSoCwCv7IILu... this is the Humanities collection

The word "Stars" might be pushing it.

Roman tegula and imbrex style roof tiles of cut stone.

Not an elbow, but a similar idea.