Here's a pretty random train of thought. It is more or less so 'cause I don't know where it'll start or where it'll go, as of this moment. Just browsing some old stuff from my computer.
The Intervention of the Sabine Women:This is a 1799 painting by Jacques Louis-David. I saw this during a pretty random day-long walk in the Louvre and spent about twenty minutes just staring at it. The story is: Romans abduct the Sabine women & marry them, & a few years later, during a follow-up war between the Sabines & the Romans, the same women jump in between the two armies, one containing their now-husbands, fathers of their children, and the other their fathers, & that's how the battle ends.
This is a photo I took from the painting:
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Faced with the extinction of their community, the Romans planned to abduct Sabine women. Romulus invited Sabine families to a festival of Neptune Equester. At the meeting he gave a signal, at which the Romans grabbed the Sabine women and fought off the Sabine men. The indignant abductees were implored by Romulus to accept Roman husbands.
Livy is clear that no sexual assault took place. On the contrary, Romulus offered them free choice and promised civic and property rights to women. According to Livy he spoke to them each in person, "and pointed out to them that it was all owing to the pride of their parents in denying right of intermarriage to their neighbours. They would live in honourable wedlock, and share all their property and civil rights, and — dearest of all to human nature — would be the mothers of free men."
The women married Roman men, but the Sabines went to war with the Romans. The conflict was eventually resolved when the women, who now had children by their Roman husbands, intervened in a battle to reconcile the warring parties.Look at these details:

Stop staring at the breasts, the expression on the woman's face is... ?

Why is one kid staring at the painter? Why is the other snarling at him? Crazy stuff.
The entire painting:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...abine_women.jpgMiles Davis:One of the coolest pics of the man. Late 50s I assume:
Article 301:301 million times: NO!
Test your IQ:One in a series of challenging IQ -*test*-('")s:
RAKI:The available varieties have been rapidly increasing. I've only tasted the Yeni Raki & that not in a few years either. Here, it's either an expensive mail-order for Raki, or a 5-minute walk to the liqueur store for 12-Ouzo, so I've been going for the latter. I also don't buy anything from duty-free anymore, so that's how it is. I prefer the smoother 12-ouzo over Yeni Raki now, but looking forward to sample some of the below. Any advice on what is good & what's not?


Cheers!
Supermenler/Cuneyt Arkin:This looks like a must-see. Can I also add that it's an ingenious idea?

You'll make a cheap remake of the Superman, but you decide to have not one, but three! Superpeople! Notice the contrast between the serious Cuneyt & the goof of the two other supers.
Chickens:All of the above logically imply two chickens playing football.
Money:100 Billion Zimbabwean dollars.

& the 1000 TL banknote with Inonu. Don't remember the exact date.

& the 100K $ banknote with Wilson. One time print.

There's this thing too, but I don't really remember what it's deal is. It's definitely not one of the recent prank notes, though.
September 12 1980:Should've posted this 5 days ago. Look at the smile on the asshole.


& 20-something years later.
Ramazan davulcunuz:No comment.
The Economist:One of my favorite Economist covers so far.
Mango:Hawaiian mango varieties:
... to be continued.