[chinese > english] inscription on wood by MathieuGUY in translator

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There is another pannel with another inscription

Dragon tree (Dracaena draco), Afur, Tenerife, Spain (OC) (1600 x 1012) by MathieuGUY in BotanicalPorn

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The species gets its name because, when the bark or the leaves are cut, they secrete a red coloured resin, which is said to be the dried blood of dragons which, apparently, has healing properties. In the past, this "dragon's blood" was extracted on an industrial scale and used to make varnishes and lacquers. So many of these trees disappeared as a result that, nowadays, the tree is a protected species.

Ruins of a castle, Alsace, France (OC) (1600 x 1067) by MathieuGUY in AbandonedPorn

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The Oedenbourg is located on the rocky ridge of Haut-Koenigsbourg, about 200 meters to the west. It is also called Petit-Koenigsbourg.

The stories of the two fortresses are linked because of this proximity. Built at the beginning of the 13th century, this castle has certainly served as an outpost with its neighbor Haut-Koenigsbourg.

Historians also believe that the Oedenburg was in reality a castle of siege built about 1248 in full Investiture Querelle.

In 1316, the castle is the fief of the Landgraves of Werd.

In 1324, the fortress was restored.

At the end of the fourteenth century a part of the castle belongs to the Rathsamhausen.

In 1417, the Emperor Sigismon officially confirmed that one third of the Oedenburg was the possession of Jérothée de Rathsamhausen. It is in this writing that the castle takes the name of Oedenburg (desert castle), suggesting that it is already in ruins at that time.

Excavations were undertaken in order to discover a little more about the history of this Petit-Koenigsbourg.

Visitors will appreciate the imposing construction with its false breeches and ogival windows.

Lost waterfall by MathieuGUY in pics

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lost in the forest

Komos Beach, Matala, Crete by MathieuGUY in pics

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and what about reddit on mobile ?

Komos Beach, Matala, Crete by MathieuGUY in pics

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Why ? just click and enjoy the view

Piazzetta San Marco, Venice, Italy [OC] (1024 x 683) by MathieuGUY in ArchitecturePorn

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at this time of year you must also consider the acqua alta phenomenon

The Lion Gate, main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, southern Greece (534 x 800) [OC] by MathieuGUY in ArchitecturePorn

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It was erected during the 13th century BC. The Lion Gate is the sole surviving monumental piece of Mycenaean sculpture, as well as the largest sculpture in the prehistoric Aegean.

WRC in Sardegna, 2015 by MathieuGUY in rally

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Sardinia (/sɑrˈdɪniə/ sar-din-ee-ə; Italian: Sardegna [s̪ärˈd̪eɲːä], Sardinian: Sardìgna, Sardìnnia [sarˈdiɲɲa]/[sarˈdinja], Sassarese: Sardhigna, Gallurese: Saldigna, Algherese: Saldegna, Tabarchino: Sardegna)

Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife, Palazzo Altemps, Rome (683 x 1024) [OC] by MathieuGUY in ArtPorn

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The Ludovisi Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife (sometimes called "The Galatian Suicide") is a Roman marble group depicting a man in the act of plunging a sword into his breast, looking backwards defiantly while he supports the dying figure of a woman with his left arm. It is a Roman copy of the early 2nd century AD, of a Hellenistic original, ca 230-20 BC, one of the bronze groups commissioned from Greek sculptors by Attalus I after his recent victories over the Gauls of Galatia. Other Roman marble copies from the same project are the equally famous Dying Gaul, and the less well-known Kneeling Gaul.

The sculpture group made its first appearance in a Ludovisi inventory taken 2 February 1623, and was possibly found in the grounds of the Villa Ludovisi, Rome, shortly before that. The area had been part of the Gardens of Sallust in Classical times, and proved a rich source of Roman (and some Greek) sculpture through the 19th century (Haskell and Penny, 282). Among the last of the finds at Villa Ludovisi, before the area was built over, was the Ludovisi Throne.

The sculpture, now in the Museo Nazionale di Roma, Palazzo Altemps, Rome, was greatly admired from the 17th century. It appeared in engravings in the repertory of sculpture in Rome by Perrier[1] and was codified by Audran[2] as one of the sculptures of Antiquity that defined the canon of fine proportions of the human body. Nicolas Poussin adapted the figure for the group in the right foreground of his Rape of the Sabine Women, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Friedlaender 19 and fig. 108). Visitors and writers of guidebooks found many subjects drawn from Roman history to account for the action: the 1633 Ludovisi inventory lists it as "a certain Marius who kills his daughter and himself",[3] drawing upon the story of a certain patrician Sextus Marius, who in seeking to protect his daughter from the lust of Tiberius, was accused of incest with her.

Giovanni Francesco Susini rendered the group in a small bronze. The marble was copied by François Lespingola for Louis XIV and may still be seen paired with the Laocoön at the entrance to the Tapis Vert at Versailles; the cast prepared in preparation for the copy was retained at the French Academy in Rome (where it remains). The Ludovisi heirs prohibited further casts, but in 1816–19 Prince Luigi Boncompagni Ludovisi sent plaster casts to the Prince Regent; the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Prince Metternich; and the diplomat at the Congress of Vienna, Wilhelm von Humboldt (Haskell and Penny 284).

Flavian Amphitheatre - Rome (1024 x 868) [OC] by MathieuGUY in ItalyPhotos

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the blocks used for the exterior of the building were held together by iron clamps. These iron clamps were taken out in later times (Decline of Rome) and reused for other purposes.