Caterina Murino as Solange in Casino Royale

'And when he enters the combat, let every man of good lineage think of nothing but splitting heads and hacking arms; for it is better to die than to live in defeat.'

- Bertrand de Born, 12-13th century Occitan knight and troubadour.

Vishnu as Varaha, the Boar Avatar, slays Banasur

ca. 1800
Guler, Kangra

Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1622-1625

Arthur Morgan Apni pic kab post karega pajeet? I've made 1000s of posts on Sanskrit, theology, linguistics, archaeology, history, economics and that's how I've gotten followers, but insecure attention seekers like you who get followers by gossip and daily lafdas still keep seething.

I wonder how pikemen in the Macedonian phalanx blocked arrows? The shields were pretty small and raising them to block arrows could be unwieldy with such a large pike and could break up the cohesion of the formation

Arkaim was a Bronze Age fortified settlement located near the southern Ural Mountains and Kazakh Steppe in what is now the Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia. It was built by the Proto-Indo-Iranians (Ā́rya-s) of the Central Asian Sintashta Culture. This fortress could have —

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