Views of Crimea by Carlo Bossoli - Painting Thread Carlo Bossoli was an Italian painter who visited Crimea from 1840-1842 In 1856 he published "The Beautiful Scenery and Chief Places of Interest throughout the Crimea" which depicts Crimea just prior to the Crimean War

“It’s not possible.” “No. It’s necessary.”

The Scythian Geography of Pomponius Mela, as interpreted by Konrad Miller. The Scythian Sea The Scythian Desert Scythian Desert Isles Sogdians Saka Massagetae (great goths) Anthropophagi (cannibals) hic tigres sunt (here be tigers)

"NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her; powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her." ~ Goethe

Inland Sea - Hasui Kawase, 1953

Palm Woodland near Cairo - Friedrich Perlberg, 1921

Paintings by Dwight Eisenhower

Following China's defeat of the Zungar Khanate in 1758, many Zungar Mongols fled to Russia and settled along the Irtysh River These Zungars converted to Christianity & intermarried with Russians A century later travelers noted that many Russians there had Asian faces

Pushkin at Ai-Petri Peak during Sunrise - Ivan Aivazovsky, 1899

Madness leading Blind Love - Nicolas-André Monsiau, 1796

Albert Bierstadt

Hasui Kawase.

Very pleased to say that my new book, Anonymously Yours: The Essays, 2020-2024, is now available on Amazon. This book is just shy of 400 pages of essays on everything from testosterone decline to climate migration via ancient Greek agonism and the novels of Michel Houellebecq.

Abraham Pether

Kerguelen Islands

The Ecstasy of Gold

"Every value—when once it has gained power over a person—has the tendency to set itself up as sole tyrant of the whole human ethos, and indeed at the expense of other values, even of such as are not inherently opposed to it." ~ Hartmann