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Boundless by Sapna Reddy Photography
Yosemite, California
Plotina, la esposa de Trajano, el mejor emperador de Roma. Y dicen que junto a un gran hombre, una gran mujer.
Colossal portrait sculpture of the Empress Plotina, wife of Trajan, thought to have been made after her deification in 129 CE. Now in the Vatican Museum. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
Muy ad hoy a la temporada no creen?
OLYMPIC GAMES:
SPORTING events were originally associated with funeral rituals, particularly those of heroes and the fallen in battle, for example, the games for Patroklos in Homer’s Iliad. At Olympia, in particular, some mythological accounts credit Zeus with beginning the Games to celebrate his victory over Kronos whilst other accounts state the hero Pelops began them in honour of Oinomaos.
The first Olympics were held from 776 BCE at the first full moon after the summer solstice (around the middle of July) in honour of Zeus. The winner of the first and only event, the stadion foot-race was Koroibos of Elis and from then on every victor was recorded and each Olympiad named after them, thus giving us the first accurate chronology of the ancient Greek world.
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Article by Mark Cartwright || Photos by Mary Harrsch and Mark Cartwright on AHE
Nuestro maravilloso planeta!!!
by Brock Sanders
Hermoso!!!
Antoine Calbet - Ondines
Alta ingeniería!!
The new “front door” of the ISS is now open for business with the next generation of space vehicles! US EVA-36 spacewalkers Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins installed the International Docking Adapter (#2) on the front of the ISS this morning.
Pot of red clay containing a hoard of 1,925 Roman silver coins, buried c. 230 AD. Part of the Falkirk Hoard found in August 1933 in Bell’s Meadow, Falkirk, Scotland (National Museums Scotland).
Que hermoso animal. Por favor colaboremos con su preservación!!
Tundra Gray Wolf by Cheryl Nestico
Bello!!
Baltic Sea, Sopot, Poland
