Category: free culture

Ilex-aquifolium (Europaeische Stechpalme)aka Holly…



Ilex-aquifolium (Europaeische Stechpalme)

aka Holly Berries

photo © by Jürgen Howaldt released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany license.

via Wikimedia Commons
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Halle Berry speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con…



Halle Berry speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.

Not to be confused with Holly Berries 

photo © by Gage Skidmore and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

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weirdchristmas:I love this picture so much, and I post it every…



weirdchristmas:

I love this picture so much, and I post it every year…but no one seems near as into it as me. So much weirdness! Plus…what’s up with his hands!?!?

Looks like he’s wearing a false nose, and the bloody fingers reaching for the little children lured into his Christmas Tree disguise… more than weird, this is a pretty twisted xmas card.

smithsonianlibraries: Should we make the “Frog Days of Summer” a…





smithsonianlibraries:

Should we make the “Frog Days of Summer” a thing? Only if we can get more use out of these fantastic plates from August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s, Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium (1758).

In it,  Rösel describes the natural history of all then-known frogs and toads indigenous to the Nuremberg region in Germany. The title is noteworthy first for the extensive, accurate information in the text, printed in two columns in both German and Latin.

Learn more about the volume on our blog: https://s.si.edu/2nBZBWD

View the digitized volume in @biodivlibrary: https://s.si.edu/2P6qQVX