The Hidden Baroness

alltheworldunited:

Victorian medicine bottles.

(there are so many of these in my house!)

wanderlustjapan:

Fushimi by anglo10

evermore-fashion:

Elie Saab “A Tale Of Fallen Kings” Fall 2017 Haute Couture Collection

shewhoworshipscarlin:

Writing box, 1600s, Japan.

historyarchaeologyartefacts:

Winged Athena holding a helmet unearthed inside an Etruscan villa c. 100 BC. National Museum Rome [500x752]

missfolly:

Reclining in White (detail), by Jeremy Lipking

periodfilmsstills:

An Ideal Husband (1999)

theselingeringsouls:

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra  (via hecatese)

irisharchaeology:

A Viking hoard from Galloway, Scotland 

Source 

sociallyawkwardhufflepuff:

cakemakethme:

Terry Crews coming in with some wisdom

we need terry painting like bob ross on tv everyday 

karrova:

“Isn’t blood a woman’s ink?”

— Brenda Shaughnessy, from So Much Synth; “Is There Something I Should Know?”
(via violentwavesofemotion)

saint-rouge:

It’s in our hands now

lunariagold:

janiedean:

lucrezianoin:

pressxtodavid:

technicolorrelays:

supernaturallymarvelousmoosefan:

salty-blue-mage:

quietdoppelganger:

disregardcanon:

polyglotplatypus:

thats-pretty-much-it:

polyglotplatypus:

if u ever wonder how europeans can rely on trains so much to travel thru entire countries

this is why

(312km/h is about 194mph)

? Yea is this not the same everywhere??

doesnt seem to be

Also, most areas in America don’t even HAVE passenger rail anymore

The automotive industry purposely tried to kill off trains here in America

Public transit in general if we’re being honest.

As an europeean, what the fuck america?

if you ever see something weird about america chances are it’s because some powerful industry decided to kill something that would have worked towards the public good for profit

I always wondered why trains aren’t fucking HUGE in America

I’m so surprised… I never even noticed that all the USA media I consume has cars and planes but no trains

….. guys are you okay

Living in Canada I often bemoan the fact that the North American passenger train system is absolutely pathetic compared with Europe’s (and Asia), especially since I’ve never had a car. 

Then I found this interesting article which explains all the factors behind it. Of course some of it is due to car and suburban culture (which I loathe so by all means let’s kill it with fire) but there are also challenges with the fact that the US and Canada have such a low population density compared to Europe or Asia. It would be a LOT less people per miles of track. There is also an interesting point regarding property rights making the building of the system complicated, which I’d never considered before.

However, despite knowing, I’m still going to keep whining about it because trains are Nice and everyone should have them dammit T_T

skaodi:

Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda Spring 2016.