Le Mont Aiguille, Majestueux Et Solitaire, Incarne La Beauté Brute De La Nature, Un Lieu Où L’amour

the picturesque temple of the great god Pan, lord of the wild and nature of mountain wilds: located in the desért de retz, north-central France.

Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion (1812) by John Martin

Resurrection Cathedra, Staraya Russa

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova, 1913

BꙆottɩ ᥱᥒtɾᥱ ʋɩɠᥒᥱ⳽ ᥱt ᥴoꙆꙆɩᥒᥱ⳽ ᑯoɾᥱ́ᥱ⳽, Cᖾᥲtᥱᥲᥙᑲᥙɾɠ ᥱ⳽t ᥙᥒ ʝoყᥲᥙ ᑯɩ⳽ᥴɾᥱt ᑯᥱ Ꙇ’Aɾᑯᥱ̀ᥴᖾᥱ, ᑲᥲɩɠᥒᥱ́ ᑯᥱ ⳽oꙆᥱɩꙆ ᥱt ᑯ’ᥲᥙtᖾᥱᥒtɩᥴɩtᥱ́. Sᥱ⳽ ɾᥙᥱꙆꙆᥱ⳽ ᥱ́tɾoɩtᥱ⳽ ⳽ᥱɾρᥱᥒtᥱᥒt ᥱᥒtɾᥱ Ꙇᥱ⳽ ʋɩᥱɩꙆꙆᥱ⳽ ρɩᥱɾɾᥱ⳽, ρᥲɾƒᥙຕᥱ́ᥱ⳽ ᑯᥱ Ꙇᥲʋᥲᥒᑯᥱ ᥱt ɾყtᖾຕᥱ́ᥱ⳽ ρᥲɾ Ꙇᥱ ᥴᖾᥲᥒt ᑯᥱ⳽ ᥴɩɠᥲꙆᥱ⳽. Iᥴɩ, Ꙇᥱ tᥱຕρ⳽ ɾᥲꙆᥱᥒtɩt, Ꙇᥱ⳽ ⳽oᥙɾɩɾᥱ⳽ ⳽oᥒt ⳽ɩᥒᥴᥱ̀ɾᥱ⳽, ᥱt Ꙇᥱ⳽ ᥴoᥙᥴᖾᥱɾ⳽ ᑯᥱ ⳽oꙆᥱɩꙆ ᥱຕᑲɾᥲ⳽ᥱᥒt Ꙇᥱ⳽ ᥴotᥱᥲᥙx. Uᥒ Ꙇɩᥱᥙ oᥙ̀ ᥴᖾᥲϙᥙᥱ ɩᥒ⳽tᥲᥒt ᥲ Ꙇᥱ ɠoᥙ̂t ᑯᥙ ʋɾᥲɩ, ᑯᥱ Ꙇᥲ tᥱɾɾᥱ ᥱt ᑯᥙ ⳽oꙆᥱɩꙆ.

Cᖾᥲ̂tᥱᥲᥙᑲᥙɾɠ / Fɾᥲᥒᥴᥱ 🇫🇷

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Royal Chapel of Versailles, France.

Medieval streets in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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May 14th 1754 saw the rules of golf formalised at St Andrews with the foundation of the Society of St Andrews Golfers.

Twenty-two ‘Noblemen and Gentlemen’ contributed to a silver club to be played for annually over the Links of St Andrews. The first winner was Baillie William Landale, a St Andrews’ merchant, who became Captain for the year.

The competition was initially open to all golfers, as had been that of the Leith golfers ten years previously. The Leith golfers were specifically invited and brought their rules with them, which the St Andrews’ golfers used, with a small change to Rule 5. Thus began the foremost club in both Scottish golf history and world golf in general.

The first picture shows the hand-written rules of golf, which appear on the first page of the very first minute book of the Society of St Andrews Golfers. You can see that rule five was maybe amended after the initial rules were written down. The second pic is of James and Alexander Macdonald the sons of Sir Alexander Macdonald of Macdonald, a great Highland chieftain with estates on the Isle of Skye, although the pic is from 1749, before date “celebrated” today, I think it interesting as it shows one of the boys wit a golf club, showing that golf was already a well-established pastime in Scotland by this time.

The society later became known as the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews.

I’d like to add about the lat pic of the Macdonald brothers, if you see the one on the right, Alexander, is wearing a kilt, many people would have you believe it it was a Victorian invention, the date of this painting clearly shows that is not the case.

This is a place where secrets are hidden behind stone walls and learning is almost a magical ritual.

Illustrations from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A major work of the English Romantic movement, «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–1798 and was published in 1798 and unique in its intentionally archaic language.

The poem is a nightmarish parody of a dream, fulfilling fears rather than wishes. Coleridge later attributed his masterpiece to opium dreams in order to make them seem more exotic to his readership. It begins with almost the sense of classical Greek tragedy, with a man who has offended against pagan forces condemned to wander the world and repeat his tale to passersby when the daemon within him moves him. The poem relates the events experienced by a mariner who has returned from a long sea voyage.