History Ruins

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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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Urquhart Castle in winter, Scotland (lemmy.world)

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In Scottish Gaelic, this is Caisteal na Sròn, or "castle of the promontory". "Sròn", though, is also the word for nose. So it's the Castle of the Nose.

[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

A nose really is just a face promontory