i·will·not·cheat·you

i·will·not·cheat·you

Nana Strand

Nana Strand

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BRYNJA JONBJARNARBOTTIR by Clément Louis

BRYNJA JONBJARNARBOTTIR by Clément Louis

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Bitemarks

Bitemarks

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<3!!!!

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Cristian Pfingstag by Didio

Alejandro Salgueiro by Germán Nájera

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Luuk van Os and Keno Weidner by Julia Karetnikova

Luuk van Os and Keno Weidner by Julia Karetnikova

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Montserrat Oliver by Germán Nájera

Montserrat Oliver by Germán Nájera

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Irina Lazareanu by Henrik Bülow

Irina Lazareanu by Henrik Bülow

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biomedicalephemera:
Sainte Valérie, by Jaques Laudin II
St. Valerie of Limoges was one of many Catholic early Christian saints who was a cephalophore - a martyr who carried their head in their hands. Many of these cephalophores supposedly spoke, prayed, or walked somewhere, after being beheaded.
Painting circa 1700, via Wikimedia Commons.
“Cephalophore” is an interesting word - it means “head-bearing”, and has the same Greek root as “cephalopod,” which means “head-foot”.
For a while, there was a family of molluscs with distinct heads, and a family of filiform mushrooms that were called “cephalophores”, but both uses of that term in taxonomy are obsolete by a couple centuries.

biomedicalephemera:

Sainte Valérie, by Jaques Laudin II

St. Valerie of Limoges was one of many Catholic early Christian saints who was a cephalophore - a martyr who carried their head in their hands. Many of these cephalophores supposedly spoke, prayed, or walked somewhere, after being beheaded.

Painting circa 1700, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cephalophore” is an interesting word - it means “head-bearing”, and has the same Greek root as “cephalopod,” which means “head-foot”.

For a while, there was a family of molluscs with distinct heads, and a family of filiform mushrooms that were called “cephalophores”, but both uses of that term in taxonomy are obsolete by a couple centuries.

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Katsukawa Shunsho, The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen…, 1783.

Katsukawa Shunsho, The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen…, 1783.

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II Grimes by Valentina Vos