What A Striking Image!!

Freedom for Iran and the Persian people 🙏

40th day since Ghazaleh Chelabi was murdered in the protests against dictatorship and misogyny. Women are burning their hijab at her graveside.

All free people should be passionate about the fate of the Persian people at the hands of their oppressive government which is denying them basic rights, arresting torturing and killing them without restraint or repercussions from the many countries that do business with that government

Nika Shakarami was nearly 17 years old when she went missing during a protest rally on september 20. when she was found, dead, 9 days later, her family was not allowed to see her head when asked to identify her body. she was filled with injuries including a smashed nose and broken skull.

another teen girl, 16 year old Sarina Esmailzadeh, was also killed. she was reportedly hit repeatedly in the head by the police.

The Sun

Iran cops kill two more girls, 16 & 17, leaving one with crushed skull

TWO more young girls have been killed during the Iran regime’s brutal crackdown on hijab protests that have swept the country. YouTuber Sari

since the start of the protests 15 days ago, it is estimated 300 were killed and 15,000 people were arrested.

the fight for democracy and freedom in iran continues. do not forget about iranian women!

(via porkbrainsandmilkgravy)

Reminds me of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus!”

👌😍👏

MoC

Languages

For the love of languages

Science Association Aranzadi has made a discovery that can be a landmark for the history of Basque language. In an Iron Age Vascon town of Irulegi, in the region of Aranguren (Nafarroa), an inscripted bronze hand from the 1st century BCE has surfaced. It’s the longest and oldest Basque text until now. It’s written in a variation of the Iberian alphabet, adapted by Vascons to our language. According to experts, the hand could have been a lucky charm to bring good luck and shoo bad luck away. 

The first word reads sorioneku - please compare to nowadays Basque word zorioneko (for good luck, luckily).

THIS. IS. HUGE.

It’s the first Vasconic text - not single words - that has been found so omg, we’re super excited!!!

Sources: 1 & 2

Both are absolutely gorgeous!! 😍🔥👌

This is a fascinating story on multiple levels!! 😎

Painted on a thin plate of ivory just 2.6 x 3.1 inches, this “self-portrait” of the painter Sarah Goodridge’s breasts was given (as a kind of “proto-sext”?) to the recently widowed US senator Daniel Webster in 1828. ⁠

via publicdomainrev

It is a painting so seductive, so intriguing, we cannot help but want to know the story behind it. Adding to the seductiveness is the fact that these pale breasts encircled by a swirl of cloth, painted on a thin plate of ivory 2.6 inches high and 3.1 inches long, belonged to the woman who painted them: an accomplished miniaturist named Sarah Goodridge (b. 1788). Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Goodridge sent this particular miniature (enclosed in a leather case that could be closed with two clasps) to the recently widowed United States senator Daniel Webster in 1828….

Continue Reading: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sarah-goodridges-beauty-revealed-1828

Magnificently elegant, elegantly simple! 👏😍🙏

Alcune prospettive sono uno splendido viaggio!

Buongiorno ♠️

This is our challenge!  Take it…and please keep this going.

So true