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"Selene" (pronounced "sell-a-nee") is the Greek name for the Goddess of the Moon. The suffix "-phile" comes from the Greek "Philos", or "loving". So "selenophile" means "Moon lover." (via wheredoesthehoneyflow)

Six pieces (silver-gilt) comprising of two forks, two knives and two enameled spoons.

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print from the book “Picturesque Russia” (“Живописная Россия”), 1897

The Great Comet of 1680 over Rotterdam, Netherlands, painting by Lieve Verschuier. People are using cross-staffs, early devices for measuring angles. (NASA/Wikipedia)

LASSEDIO DELLA CITTÀ DI TIRO - Folia. Mi niatura tratta dal ‘Romanzo di Alessandro’ - MS. Bodl. 264 (1338-1344), Bodleian Library, Oxford.

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Corvin Castle (Castelul Corvinilor, Hunedoara castle), Romania.

"This ring is known as a posy ring, deriving from the French ‘poesy’ (poetry). Posy rings were plain hoops inscribed with mottoes or saying, that might express sentiments of faith, commemoration, friendship and love. It was an especially popular type of ring in the fifteenth century. The inscription on this ring, autre ne vueil (desire no other) would have been a stock phrase used by goldsmiths."

The South and North poles of Mars

Alchemy 15th century Forma Speculi Trinitae Christ crucified, dressed in black with wings; above his crown sits a three-headed bird, in each hand is a crown on which sits a bird, at each foot are the head and shoulders of a man.

Land of Skyrim

Gross Henning, Magica de Spectris et Apparitionibus Spiritum, 1656