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Storm (1925) - Zdzisław Jasiński
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The alchemy symbol for tin is more ambiguous than others, probably because tin is a common silver-colored metal. The symbol looks like the number four, or sometimes like a seven or letter "Z" crossed with a horizontal line.
The alchemy symbol for the metal antimony is a circle with a cross above it. Another version seen in texts is a square placed on edge, like a diamond.

Antimony was also sometimes symbolized by the wolf—the metal represents man's free spirit or animal nature.
A wide variety of seemingly unrelated symbols were used to represent the element arsenic. Several forms of the glyph involved a cross and two circles or an "S" shape. A stylized picture of a swan was also used to represent the element.

Arsenic was a well-known poison during this time, so the swan symbol might not make much sense—until you recall that the element is a metalloid. Like other elements in the group, arsenic can transform from one physical appearance to another; these allotropes display different properties from each other. Cygnets turn into swans; arsenic, too, transforms itself.
The alchemy symbol for platinum combines the crescent symbol of the moon with the circular symbol of the sun. This is because alchemists thought platinum was an amalgam of silver (moon) and gold (sun).
Alchemists were fascinated by phosphorus because it seemed capable of holding light—the white form of the element oxidizes in air, appearing to glow green in the dark. Another interesting property of phosphorus is its ability to burn in air.

Although copper was commonly associated with Venus, the planet was called Phosphorus when it glowed brightly at dawn.
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The fragments of the Lion Man were discovered in 1939 by Otto Völzing in the Stadel, one of the three karst caves of the Hohlenstein near Asselfingen (Swabian Alb). The excavations were led by the Tübingen anatomist Robert Wetzel.The fragments of the Lion Man were recovered on August 25, 1939, shortly before the premature end of the excavation. Since the investigations were discontinued in view of the Second World War, which began on September 1, the excavated material remained in the cave.
The 2011 photo clearly shows the incisions on the left upper arm, as well as the fact that a number of parts were still missing
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It was not until December 1969 that prehistorian Joachim Hahn, attempting to piece together the more than 260 ivory fragments, of which he could only accommodate about 200, discovered that the object was a hybrid of human and big cat, probably a cave lion.
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