After World War II, many monuments were designed and built across former Yugoslavia. They were built to commemorate battles, heroes, and massacres. The design of the monuments (often by renowned designers and architects), and their...
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I took the images in this post from a website called palemale.com. The website owner takes intimate photos of wildlife that persists in city centres, particularly of a red-tailed hawk called Pale Male who...
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Lars Elling (1966) is a Norwegian painter and playwright. He seems, to me, to have one foot in surrealist history, another foot gently kicking the classics and his hands rampaging freely across the canvass. But...
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The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest written code of law ever to be found. The tablets, written in Sumerian, were inscribed at some point between 2100 and 2500 BC. To put that into...
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The so-called lion man statue was discovered in 1939 in a German cave — the Stadel cave in Hohlenstein Mountain in the Lone valley, to be precise. The lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel has...
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Some time back I posted a couple of articles showcasing the paintings of murdered Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński. The incredible work of Beksiński has inspired a legion of modern Polish artists. One of these artists is Dariusz Zawadzki....
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These simple and charming GIFs (I’ve never described a GIF as charming before, but I think you’ll agree with me) are created by Yoyoi Yuuta (Tumblr pseudonym 1041uuu). There’s something relaxing but slightly...
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Where else but Russia? This short video stars an incredibly thorough jewelry thief. He has been dubbed “crazy one” by the Russian police, so that gives you an incline that he might be a touch odd....
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A little while back I posted up a selection of photos of Pomeranian puppies. At the time of posting I apologised for publishing something so sickeningly cutesie. I want to reiterate that apology...
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