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papermagazine: Internet Goes Insane Over a Bird Perching on Bernie Sanders’ Podium
845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders
guardian: Donald Trump’s head explodes in Mexico City… … kind of. It was actually a piñata version of the candidate, blown up as part of an Easter ritual in Mexico City.
mymodernmet:Makeup Artist Uses Her Lips as a Canvas for Elaborate Works of Art
artdecodude: Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California. A beauty place to see a movie. 12/28/2012. Entire set is all up in one place on my flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/7398381@N04/albums/72157664086943464
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stuffmomnevertoldyou: Cool: Encouraging women to open up and ask questions about salaries and salary transparency.Eyeroll: BUT WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ?(h/t @amberdiscko)
collectorsweekly: The Mystery of the Phantom Page Turner“According to Spellerberg, page turners didn’t exist during any historical period at all, making them the unicorns, if you will, of office collectibles, mythical objects that tell us more about
Des Hommes et des Chatons
valkyriethais: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zakopaneinthesierras/12963021765/in/pool-viking_culture/
coolartefact: Samurai helmet (kabuko) shaped like an octopus. About 18th century, Japan. (x-post /r/museum)Source: http://i.imgur.com/a8cke6c.jpg
coolartefact: 100-Year-Old Message In A Bottle Plucked From Baltic Sea [5184X3456]Source: http://i.imgur.com/OQcjHXO.jpg
weirdvintage: Prairie Flower, the sharpshooter—a contemporary of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, c. 1880s (via)
did-you-kno: Leonardo Da Vinci was dyslexic, ambidextrous, and predominantly left handed, which allowed him to draw with one hand while writing backward with the other. This produced a mirror-image script around the drawings of his inventions that other
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did-you-kno: In ancient times, people believed hares were hermaphrodites that could give birth without compromising their virginity. This idea led to an association with the Virgin Mary, and that’s why we have bunnies at Easter. Source
fyeahastropics: NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars(via APOD; Image Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (IAA, Spain); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) ) How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance,
cracked: For instance, if you weren’t alive during the early 90s, how are you supposed to know what the hell that thing next to the “Save” button on every single program in existence is supposed to represent.My generation knows that the little
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onceuponatown: Traveling in style. Dining cars 1905-1910.
coolchicksfromhistory:Lillian Boyer was one of the best known stunt people of the 1920s. A former waitress, Lillian began her career as an aerial performer on a lark but quickly made it her profession. For 贄 a day, Lillian walked on the wings of
cracked: You hate it. Everyone hates it. It’s impossible to open by hand, and even with a pair of scissors, massive, hand-shredding chunks of plastic are left sticking out of it at odd angles. It’s the war crime of product packaging, and there’s
historical-nonfiction: Around 600 B.C.E., a Greek athlete named Protiselaus threw a discus 152 feet from a standing position, a record not exceeded for over 2,500 years, until Clarence Houser threw a discus 155 feet in 1928.
silenceformysoul: Herbert James Draper - Clyties of the Mist
did-you-kno: There’s a pot that senses light, moisture, temperature and fertilizer levels for your plant, then sends alerts through its companion app if anything is needed. The pot contains a database of 8,000 different plants, which you can
cracked: Japan’s coastline-dwelling citizens have centuries of experience in the water-dodging field, including where best to lay camp if they don’t want to wake up drowned one morning. Their conclusion: Build everything as high up as fucking possible.
compoundchem: This Week in Chemistry: Detecting nuclear tests, graphene patches for diabetics, and more: http://goo.gl/1pN5Y4
archaicwonder: Greek Gold Oak Wreath, 4th-3rd Century BC
neurosciencestuff: Long-term stress erodes memorySustained stress erodes memory, and the immune system plays a key role in the cognitive impairment, according to a new study from researchers at The Ohio State University.The work in mice could one
awwdorables: fashionkawaiiasiancute: An officious cat wants to hear something behind the door LET HIM IN
did-you-kno :Physalis alkekengi, known as the Chinese and Japanese Lantern plant, is seen as a symbol of ‘life within death.’ It blooms in the winter and dries up in the spring, revealing the bright red fruit that lives inside its arid petals. Source
thoodleoo: if you ever feel like you’re too obsessed with something, just remember that, according to plutarch, alexander the great slept with his prized copy of the iliad under his pillow alongside a dagger, presumably so that he could murder anyone
This Little-Known Greek Island Cures All Wanderlust - Chios
When people tell me they can’t watch a movie because it has subtitles
vintageeveryday: One of the most influential martial artists of all time – Bruce Lee and family in color vintage photos
artnouveaustyle: The “Ianthe” pattern was originally created in 1900 by French designer R. Beauclair and was used by the company Liberty of London. The print comes in many color combinations and is still used for fabric designs today. source.
sezgiolgac: ‘The sacred geometry of chance’ #chios #greece (at Pirgi-Chios)
springwise: Researchers have discovered a micro-bug that eats plasticJapanese researchers have discovered a plastic-eating microorganism, which could help recycle some of the millions of tons of PET plastic currently filling landfills and polluting the
grayflannelsuit: Happy Easter from Doris Day!
Nixon Advisor Admits War on Drugs Targeted African Americans and Anti-War Protestors
guardian: The end of the Iditarod?“There was just no snow. We were running on ice and dirt.” — Marie Helwig, musherThe running of the legendary Iditarod dog sled race helped turn dog sledding into Alaska’s most popular winter sport. But after
From Stonehenge to Nefertiti—how high-tech archaeology is transforming our view of history
NOAA solves disappearance mystery of USS Conestoga
fuckyeahvikingsandcelts: The Galloway hoard: An Elite Viking’s Prized PossessionsBuried for more than a thousand years, Scotland’s “Galloway hoard” may include rare artifacts looted from medieval monasteries.For generations, Viking storytellers
amnhnyc: Feeling moody? New research shows that the state of your gut can impact your moods and behavior. Mood-affecting chemicals like serotonin are produced in large quantities in the gut, and changing the gut microbiome in mice has been shown to
Galloway Viking treasure pot's contents revealed after more than 1,000 years
cracked: When 73-year-old Robert McDonough went missing from his Maine home in 2013, his family was understandably concerned. Bob had dementia, so nobody knew where he may have wandered off to, least of all Bob. K9s were collared up, four-wheelers were
Easter Traditions - Religion, Candy And The Scary Easter Bunny
theverge: Astronomers have observed the bright flash from a star’s explosion for the first time!The brilliant sight, known as a “shock breakout,” was seen by NASA’s Kepler probe — a space telescope designed to search for planets outside the
culturenlifestyle: Miniscule Sketches Drawn to the Size of Pencils, Fingertips, and Matchsticks by Christian Watson Illustrator Christian Watson is a quickly becoming an Instagram sensation with his various minuscule ink drawings that are posted on
archaicwonder: Ancient Sea Monster Coins, C. 510-480 BCOn the obverse of these Greek tetrobols from the ancient city of Kindya in Caria is the head of a sea monster known as a ketos with its tongue protruding. On the other side is a geometric pattern
collectorsweekly: Visiting Scarfolk, the Most Spectacular Dystopia of the 1970s
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did-you-kno: Sammy the seal was always begging for food at an Ireland restaurant, so the staff started feeding him daily at 9am, 1pm, and 4pm. Now he flops out of the water, looks both ways, crosses the road, and awaits his prize at those exact
best-shower-thoughts: It’s crazy that as a species we can transplant organs, build AI and travel to space but we can’t all just get along / cr
coolartefact: Oldest surviving coin. 2700 years old. From Efesos, Greece. [294x236]Source: http://i.imgur.com/P6GbhFX.jpg
astrowhat: The Busy Centre of the Lagoon Nebula.
did-you-kno: When asked about the many people who question the meaning of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Freddie Mercury said, ‘F— them, darling… I’ll say no more than what any decent poet would tell you if you dared ask him to analyze