👍💙 smite them all!! 🔥🔥

"To the fates, as I suppose, was owed the origin of this great city and the beginning of the mightiest empire that is second only to that of the gods."-Livy

🎨"The Sun of Rome" by Pelle Swedlund (1865-1947).
#AncientBlueSky #AncientRome #Livy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROMA! 'Winged Victory in Flight with Trophy' from Rome, Italy, early 2nd century. One of the three 'Campana Reliefs' in the collections of National Roman Museum, inv. 4455. Photo is my own. #TerracottaTuesday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROMA!
'Winged Victory in Flight with Trophy' from Rome, Italy, early 2nd century. One of the three 'Campana Reliefs' in the collections of National Roman Museum, inv. 4455.
Photo is my own. #TerracottaTuesday

Trent and David.

You Know, At This Point We’re Gonna Need Some More Coffee, Indeed. #FilmSky #Coffee #TheBigLebowski

🎥🌆🧔🏽‍♂️🕶️🧔🏼‍♀️🕶️☕️^🎬🎞️📽️

Arm-wrestling match #TwinPeaksTheReturn
Mr. C, Cooper's doppelgänger arrives in Montana, where Ray is w/a gang. #Mr.C defeats the gang leader in an arm-wrestling match, then kills him, w/the gang (including Richard Horne) watching

"Part 13" "What Story is That, Charlie?"
#doppelgänger #davidlynch

We remember #Prince who died #OTD 10 years ago!!
💜🕊💜🕊💜🕊💜🕊💜🕊💜🕊💜
#MusicSky

#BOTD 77 years ago #PattiLuPone 🎈🎂 I feel we don’t talk enough about the Cut-Wife (Joan Clayton) or Patti’s brilliant, brilliant portrayal of her in #PennyDreadful. It’s one of her finest performances and one of her more nuanced characters, along w/her Florence Seward the Alienest in same! #FilmSky

GOOD to see you back!!
Eleanor and Aggie are glad you're not "Caged" !

Celebrating Anthony Quinn born April 21, 1915.
160+ roles incl Lust for Life, Viva Zapata, Wild Is the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, La Strada, The Black Swan, Against All Flags, The Shoes of the Fisherman - & Zorba the Greek!
#botd http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/anthony-quinn/

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPurple

I discovered several funky, fun, art-installation-like structures in a small children's park, intended to stimulate the imagination. I was fascinated by the one called #TheKraken which hung out near a smiling blue whale.

#Photography #StreetPhotos #UrbanGaze #ECK

Alcohol ~ what made Dave and Ray so pugilistic to one another!! Saw it first hand at Reunion Tower at a ShowCo Valentine's day party after their show back in the early 80s.

This week’s #TuneTuesday theme is #WhatShallWeDrink — songs that have beverages, drinks, drinking in them.

What shall we drink? Alcohol!!

The Kinks - Alcohol
https://youtu.be/T6Qwdlig9gE

#OTD 12 years ago on Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen conquers Astapor and frees the unsullied #HouseOfTheDragon #GameOfThrones #FilmSky

for the record he / they have no idea what's on that ship yet because you can't swing open container doors at sea. as I've said 100 times before the man is an imbecile.

Hopper is a master of subtle allusion. We see a man and woman seated at separate tables in a sunny cafeteria. They are the only customers. What interests the artist is the suspenseful moment before a first tentative contact is made, the mental and emotional forcefield that can arise between two strangers.

Sunlight in a Cafeteria by Edward Hopper, 1958

☕💜 John Lennon had his quirks—and making coffee was no exception. According to May Pang and studio engineers who worked with him, Lennon preferred strong, nearly espresso-like coffee but made with drip grounds—not instant.

yabba dabba dooooooo!!!!

eternally HIP!!
👍💙

#BOTD 111 years ago April 21, 1915, Anthony Quinn was born - American actor, painter, and sculptor. The unforgettable "Zorba the Greek" from Cacoyannis's film and Zampanò from Fellini's "La Strada." Winner of two Oscars for supporting roles ("Viva Zapata!" "Lust for Life"). #AnthonyQuinn #FilmSky

Happy Birthday to the brilliant Toby Stephens! 🎂✨
From Captain Flint in Black Sails to the voice of James Bond on audio—he's a commanding presence in every role!
#TobyStephens #HappyBirthday #BlackSails #CaptainFlint #FilmSky

#OTD April 21, 1990, the #SinéadO’Connor single “Nothing Compares 2 U” went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (April 21)
The song was written by #Prince (who coincidentally passed away on this day in 2016), and first appeared on funk band The Family’s self-titled debut (and only) album, in 1985.

Good Morning, Coffee Peeps!!
😉☕️Patience sold separately☕️😉

My photo shows a Paleo-Babylonian clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform text, still partially enclosed in its original clay envelope. The clay is pale orangey-brown in colour displayed against a grey display case background. The outer envelope has been broken open, revealing the inner tablet beneath. Both surfaces are covered with densely packed wedge-shaped characters, which record a contract for the sale of a house purchased by Mannum-balu-Samas at the price of 1/3 shekel and 15 grains of silver. This is followed by the names of the numerous witnesses including the mayor Sin-magir and the courier Apil-ilisu. The same text is repeated on the envelope in the event of a dispute, which was broken to inspect the internal document. It is dated 32nd year of Hammurabl's reign, 10th month, c. 1750 BC. The clay envelope measures 87 mm (height) × 55 mm (width), while the inner tablet measures 64 mm (height) × 43 mm (width). On display at the Museum of Antiquity in Turin. Collection number MAT 740.

A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope!

Museo di Antichità, Turin
📷 by me

#Archaeology

'𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵'
Eve Arnold.
Remembering photojournalist #EveArnold, the first female photographer to join the Magnum photo agency.
#BOTD April the 21, 1912.
She left us an amazing legacy with many truly iconic images.
Image: Arnold.
#Photography

💜Happy Birthday to the one and only
Chairman of the Board
(or Bored depending on the context),
🎈Iggy Pop ☕🎂
79 Years YOUNG!!!
Photo by Jimmy Fontaine.
#IggyPop #BOTD #MusicSky

you may love Nature_
but if you think it loves you_
you're in for heartbreak

#haiku #micropoetry

🎨Jules Tavernier's oil on canvas painting Full Moon over Kilauea, 1887

Remembering the great Sandy Denny,
who died this day in 1978. #OTD #MusicSky #SandyDenny

📸 Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns

I am sitting at a table with 10 friends
all drinking black coffee,
the sight of it gives me a feeling of happiness.
Franz Kafka, 1913.
☕📚✍️🌸
GOOD MORNING!
#Espresso #Coffee #LiteraryCoffeeQuotes

"Thus Romulus acquired sole power, and the city, thus founded, was called by its founder's name."
— Titi Livii, Ab urbe condita, lib. 1, ch. 7 #Rome #RomaAeterna