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Blossoms

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:24:20 -0400

Blossoms

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Sat, 04 May 2013 15:19:57 -0400

Arid.

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:50:32 -0400

Arid.

theonion: Rotting Smell In Congress Traced To Decaying Senator...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:48:42 -0500

theonion:

Rotting Smell In Congress Traced To Decaying Senator Who Died Inside Wall: Full Report

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theanimalblog: Elephant Encounter. Photo by David Lloyd

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:39:37 -0500

theanimalblog:

Elephant Encounter. Photo by David Lloyd

thatscienceguy: The Derweze area is rich in natural gas. While...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:38:21 -0500

thatscienceguy:

The Derweze area is rich in natural gas. While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of 70 metres (230 ft.) To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided the best solution was to burn it off.Geologists had hoped the fire would use all the fuel in a matter of days, but the gas still burns today. Locals have dubbed the cavern “The Door to Hell”.

Warmth and comfort.

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:19:56 -0500

Warmth and comfort.

On my way home from work, one day.

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:13:40 -0500

On my way home from work, one day.

geologyrocks: Erupting Volcano Anak Krakatau

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:40:46 -0500

geologyrocks:

Erupting Volcano Anak Krakatau

wilwheaton: Moments like this, messages like this one, are...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:32:35 -0500

wilwheaton:

Moments like this, messages like this one, are probably at the top of my list of reasons I’m proud to be part of Star Trek.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:30:50 -0500

ancientart: Mycenaean Terracotta Stirrup Jar with Octopus, ca....

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:07:28 -0500

ancientart:

Mycenaean Terracotta Stirrup Jar with Octopus, ca. 1200-1100 B.C.E.

Courtesy & currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:

A large, wide-eyed octopus stretches its tentacles across the curved body of this vessel. Flecks of paint and thin, arching lines denote the creature’s membranes, and large concentric rings represent its eyes. The spiraling ends of its tentacles lure the viewer around the sides to another, similar octopus that decorates the back of the jar.

This type of vessel takes its name from the stirrup-shaped handles at the top. In antiquity, such jars—easy to carry and stow, and designed not to spill—were commonly used to transport wine and oil throughout the Mediterranean.

Although this vessel is a product of the Mycenaean culture of mainland Greece, its marine imagery derives from the art of Minoan Crete. When the Mycenaeans conquered Crete (ca. 1450 B.C.), Minoan styles exerted considerable influence on the art of the mainland. The design on this vase ultimately derived from motifs that decorated marine-style vessels of the Late Minoan I period.

Control of the sea was essential to the Mycenaeans for gaining and maintaining power over their vast domain. The shape of this stirrup jar and its octopus decoration testify to the importance of the sea as an avenue of communication and source of food and wealth.

Photo taken by flickr user Ancient Art

theheadandheart: Gonna make this. just outta curiousity, was...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:02:31 -0500

theheadandheart:

Gonna make this.

just outta curiousity, was this branch found on the ground, already broken from its original tree?

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:59:05 -0500

"The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God...."

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:57:49 -0500

“The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.”

- Susan B. Anthony

(via thisoneandonlylife)

submit your own morning window...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:57:01 -0500

submit your own morning window pic: http://thelearningbrain.tumblr.com/submit

See the other Morning Windows: http://thelearningbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/MorningWindow

ssdmmfr: Artist: Tomás Saraceno “On Space Time Foam” Curated...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:56:47 -0500

ssdmmfr:

Artist:

Tomás Saraceno

“On Space Time Foam”

Curated by Andrea Lissoni : Hangar Bicocca di Milano

2012

From - 26.10.2012 _ 03.02.2013

n-a-s-a: The Jewel Box cluster and the Coalsack Nebula Credit:...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:56:33 -0500

n-a-s-a:

The Jewel Box cluster and the Coalsack Nebula

Credit: ESO

fuckyeahhistorycrushes: I think this adorkable Medal of...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:56:17 -0500

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

I think this adorkable Medal of Honor-winning professor from Maine has been submitted once before, but he’s really worth talking about again.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain taught himself Ancient Greek at the age of twenty to get into Bowdoin College, and later became a professor of rhetoric there. He went on to teach every subject they had (except science and maths) and was elected the Professor of Modern Languages as he was fluent in nine languages other than English.

Not content with being this awesome, he encouraged his students to enlist in the civil war that happened to be going on, then when the college refused to let him sign up himself, he applied for a two-year sabbatical to study languages in Europe. Then he signed up anyway.

Joshua L. was offered the post of Colonel of the 20th Maine Regiment, but turned it down for the opportunity to work his way up from Lieutenant Colonel in the same regiment (part of the Army of the Potomac).

Eventually he became Colonel, just in time to become renowned for his performance at the Battle of Gettysburg. Joshua L. was sent to defend Little Round Top with 300-odd men. This hill was at the far left flank of the entire Union army. Confederates charged the hill and were shot down, but the 20th Maine were running low on ammunition (they had to take it from their dead fellow soldiers) and men. In a brilliant and textbook manoeuvre, Joshua and his men charged down the hill, with his left flank swinging in like a hinge, meaning that the Confederates were being attacked from two sides. 101 of them were captured and Little Round Top, an important strategic position, was successfully defended.

Joshua L. sustained two injuries (although one was a bruise on the thigh, come on) and was taken off active duty for a while afterwards due to the malaria and dysentery he had contracted before the battle. He was known as “Lion of the Round Top” from then on, and awarded the Medal of Honor thirty years later. He later became a Major-General after a battle in 1865 very near the end of the war. Overall, he participated in twenty battles during the war and was cited for bravery four times.

After the war, he was elected Governor of Maine four times, refused to enforce Prohibition very much, went back to Bowdoin College for twelve years and attempted to enlist in the Spanish-American war. Did I mention that was when he was 70? AND he helped found the Maine Institution for the Blind.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain died of remaining war wounds in 1915, aged 85. Unfortunately the word “AWESOMESAUCE” was not carved on his gravestone.

allthingseurope: Eelde, Netherlands (by frata60)

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:52:28 -0500

allthingseurope:

Eelde, Netherlands (by frata60)