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art-of-swords: Unique Hudiedao Swords Dated: 19th...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:49:24 -0500

Unique Hudiedao Swords

Dated: 19th century

Culture: Southern China/Burma

Measurements: 56cms overall in the scabbard and are 49cms overall out of the scabbard

At close viewing of these blades, it is clear they have been made for an individual of great wealth or status. The timber and bone hilt slabs have been expertly carved and are pinned through the tang with brass pins that have been finished off with circle motifs. These pins not only help secure the slabs to the hilt but also hold 3 silver “menuki” style emblems and the hilt also has 2 Taoist coin inserts pierced to the outer wood slab between these.

The knuckle guard is iron that has a lanyard ring to the base, flowers and vines to the outside of the guard and the quillon is filed and chiseled to the end and is what appears to be a stylized dragon. The tang apart from being pinned through the hilt, is also peened to the base and shaped expertly around the lanyard ring. The blades are needle pointed and razor sharp, double fullered to both sides and the fullers are surrounded by circle and half circle symbolism.

The blades are fully pierced at both ends of the fullers and have Taoist coin symbols inserted into there piercings. The spines of both blades show expert filing patterns of almost every conceivable pattern and starts in a domed cross section and changes to a beveled cross section as it approaches the tip. Both are housed in a wonderfully crafted timber sheath that is decorated in eleven sheets of silver and four silver rings, all of varying design not typical by Hudiedao standards at all.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:49:07 -0500

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losttycoon: Pretty Felicity

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losttycoon:

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stfuconservatives: mswyrr: Sometimes I look at things like...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:36:54 -0500

stfuconservatives:

mswyrr:

Sometimes I look at things like these graphs and I think to myself that politicians really can make a difference and more often than not the difference they make is hurting people. And then I think about how all the money spent incarcerating people could have been spent in programs of social uplift and it’s really inexcusable.

Average cost of incarceration in California is $60,000 a year. We could be sending all of our prisoners to Harvard. Or hey, we could be sending underprivileged high school students to Harvard! But instead, we’ve got this.

Does the Higgs Boson offer proof that nature is not natural?

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:33:52 -0500

iheartchaos:

When scientists working at CERN discovered the HIggs Boson last year, it was expected they would find other new particles along with the Higgs as predicted by every model there was. But it was just a boson, and one that seemed to be way smaller than it should have been. The big (really big) implication here is that the universe may not have a “natural order” that every thinker and scientist from Aristotle to Einstein have been a fan of. In fact, our universe may be one of trillions who just happened to have physical laws just good enough for anything to exist at all and the laws of physics we so rely on only go so far before everything stops making sense.

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herochan:

Comics Watercolour

Created by Ken Krekeler

Prints available at Etsy

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paqomedicine:

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littlepawz:

Going for a stroll with dad

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:19:59 -0500

seafarers:

Abandoned Milky Way by Aaron Groen

phexxiebizarre: Shot by Zak Tyler Styling by me

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:19:30 -0500

phexxiebizarre:

Shot by Zak Tyler

Styling by me

She was tied to a tree when she was five months old, and her...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:18:54 -0500

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magicalnaturetour:

Queen of the Night Portrait I by *OrangeRoom

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ilaurens: The Storm - By: Francesco Pavanetto

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ilaurens:

The Storm - By: Francesco Pavanetto

retrogasm: Why no two snowflakes are alike… via

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Why no two snowflakes are alike…

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