chuloon

a fellow traveller of life

[thursday]

Me: I don’t have the energy for this

Someone: For what?

Me: *gestures vaguely*

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A Fatherly Caturday

In anticipation of Father’s Day tomorrow, we present this wood-engraved portrait of father and child from Pictures for Our Darlings published in Boston by D. Lothrop & Co. in 1876. This book is from our Historical Curriculum Collection. Usually, the images in this book are tied to a poem or a brief story, but these noble felids appear to be just a random image to ponder and adore, although they do face a page containing a poem about dandelions.

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Lorena G

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[art-creature]

all i need / mixed media in sketchbook / PRINT

[greuze]

Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait of a Woman (Detail), 1696

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 @thedailyblooms 

[scienceisbeauty]

Beautiful illustration by Maciej Rebisz for a Quanta Magazine article about Penrose’s cosmic censorship hypotheses:

Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes

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Ok, understood, no problem, it happens…

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Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)

The bearded vulture is a bird of prey, and the only member of the genus Gypaetus. It eats mainly carrion and lives and breeds on crags in high mountains in southern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Tibet, laying one or two eggs in mid-winter that hatch at the beginning of spring. Populations are resident. This bird is 94–125 cm long with a wingspan of 2.31–2.83 m. The bearded vulture has learned to crack bones too large to be swallowed by carrying them in flight to a height of 50–150 m above the ground and then dropping them onto rocks below, which smashes them into smaller pieces and exposes the nutritious marrow. In July 2014, the IUCN Red List has reassesed this species to be Near threatened.

photo credits: wiki, wiki, wiki, Stephanie Walters, imgur

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Edvard Munch (1863–1944), The Kiss, 1897, oil on canvas, Munch Museum, Oslo, source

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Papyrus columns in the Temple of Horus at Edfu

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Regal ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus regalis)

This colorful beauty is a subspecies of ringneck snake endemic to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They are among the larger of the ringneck snake subspecies, growing from 20 to 87 cm long. The regal ringneck snake is found in the mountains, not in the desert. The regal ringneck snake, unlike other subspecies, is almost exclusively ophiophagous, having a diet that consists primarily of other snakes. They have enlarged rear teeth and a weak venom that serves to immobilize their small prey, but is harmless to humans. Ringneck snakes are nocturnal, secretive snakes which spend most of their time hiding under rocks or other ground debris. If threatened, the ringneck snake typically hides its head and twists its tail in a corkscrew type motion, exposing its brightly colored underside, and expels a foul smelling musk from its cloaca. photo credits: imexcursions, imgur

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Path of the Moon around the Sun, 19th century.