Friday 29 July 2011

Frank Frazetta - The Executioner

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Frank Frazetta - The Executioner

Simon Renard de Saint-André - Vanitas

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Simon Renard de Saint-André - Vanitas

Keith Parkinson - Brain's Flambe

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Keith Parkinson - Brain's Flambe

Paul Gustave Doré - Idylls of the King

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Paul Gustave Doré - Idylls of the King

Upshot-Knothole - Climax

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Upshot-Knothole - Climax. The CLIMAX Event was a 61-kiloton device detonated on 4 June 1953, at the Nevada Proving Ground (NPG).

Thursday 28 July 2011

Wednesday 27 July 2011

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Monday 25 July 2011

Boris Vallejo - In the Underworld

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Boris Vallejo - In the Underworld

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya

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Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya. She is one of the most revered martyrs of the Soviet UnionZoya was assigned to the partisan unit 9903 (Staff of the Western Front). Of the one thousand people who joined the unit in October 1941 only half survived the war. At the village of Obukhovo near Naro-Fominsk, Kosmodemyanskaya and other partisans crossed the front line and entered territory occupied by the Germans. They mined roads and cut communication lines. On November 27, 1941 Zoya received an assignment to burn the village of Petrischevo, where a German cavalry regiment was stationed. On November, 27th in 2 o'clock in the morning Boris Krajnov, Vasily Klubkov and Zoe Kosmodemjanskaja have burnt in Petrischevo three houses (residents Karelova, Solntseva and Smirnova) in which German officers and soldiers settled down; thus at Germans 20 horses were lost. With approach of evening on November, 28th, at attempt to burn S.A.Sviridov's to shed (one of the policemen appointed by Germans), Kosmodemyanskaya it has been noticed by the owner. The lodged Germans caused by last have seized the girl (about 7 one o'clock in the evening). To Sviridov for it have given a bottle of vodka (subsequently it is sentenced by court to execution). On interrogation it has named as Tanya and has not told anything certain. Having stripped naked, it beat belts, then put to it hour during 4 hours drove its barefooted, in one linen, along the street on a frost. Local inhabitants Solina tried to join tortures and Smirnova, thrown in it a kettle with slops also.
Solina and Smirnova subsequently have been sentenced to execution. 
At 10:30 next morning, it have deduced on street where the gallows has already been built; on a breast to it have hung up the tablet with an inscription «Houseburner». The Germans left Zoya's body hanging on the gallows for several weeks. Eventually she was buried just before the Soviet liberation in January 1942.

Friday 22 July 2011

One of the survivors of Andersonville Prison. Union Army soldier on his release from Andersonville in May, 1865.

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One of the survivors of Andersonville Prison. Union Army soldier on his release from Andersonville in May, 1865. The Andersonville prison, officially known as Camp Sumter, served as a Confederate Prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. In fact it is possible to consider it the first "classical" concentration camp. During the war, 45,000 prisoners were received at Andersonville prison, and of these 12,913 died.

Thursday 21 July 2011

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Tuesday 19 July 2011

François Gérard - Ossian Awakening the Spirits on the Banks of the Lora with the Sound of his Harp

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François Gérard - Ossian Awakening the Spirits on the Banks of the Lora with the Sound of his Harp

Paul Jaquays - Dragon’s Crag

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Paul Jaquays - Dragon’s Crag

Monday 18 July 2011

Luis Royo - Fallen Angel I

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 Luis Royo - Fallen Angel I

Mystification - Goblin from cave Cheddar

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It supposed, that it is the Goblin from cave Cheddar. It really was the goblin, only sham. It has been used for an exhibition "Crystal Quest", opened in 1991.

Friday 15 July 2011

Full length negatives of the Shroud of Turin

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Full length negatives of the Shroud of Turin
 Fire Within - Another Life
 Apotheosis (Deu) - Beyond the Grave (No Breeding Ground)
 Lacrimatorium - Lacrimatorium
 Apator - Quorton 4
Gotthard - Gotthard
Heretika - Master of Death
Godflesh - Messiah

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Lantlôs - Lantlôs
Distorted Force - A Dead Man's Dream


Thursday 14 July 2011

Theodor Severin Kittelsen - Vaart Hustroll

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Theodor Severin Kittelsen - Vaart Hustroll
 From Depths - De Prufundis Clamavi
 Ratatosk - Northern Desolation

Theodor Severin Kittelsen - Noekken

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Theodor Severin Kittelsen - Noekken
 Front Beast - Cursed Lake
 Aegir (Deu) - Demo 2002

Wednesday 13 July 2011

Mark Harrison - The Call Of The Sword

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Mark Harrison - The Call Of The Sword
 Psychomantum - Nachtmahr split - Minas_Morgul
 Summoning - Minas Morgul

Drawing about the Cholera in Le Petit Journal

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Drawing about the Cholera in Le Petit Journal
 Black Breath - Razor to Oblivion
 Fleshworks - The Deadventure

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Great Blood - Wotan's Inquisition
 Allvater - Vater

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Joel-Peter Witkin - Melvin Burkhart - Human Oddity

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Joel-Peter Witkin - Melvin Burkhart - Human Oddity
Progeria (Deu) - Leading into lowpoint
 Whip - Godfucking and Wardreams

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Sothis (Ita) - The Seven Lies
 Abolition (Deu) - Globalisierungswahn
Common Grave (Deu) - M.D.K.
 Last Twilight (Deu) - Dead Cries