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It has a pretentious name

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[zafojones]

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

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how the hell do you bend and braid a tree

[gwydtheunusual]

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

[beautifuloutlier]

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

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On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

[reallifescomedyrelief]

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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[historical-nonfiction]

"Plan of Toronto Harbour with the Rocks, Shoals, & Soundings etc." surveyed and drawn by Joseph Bouchette (who was only 19 at the time), circa 1793

[classicsenthusiast]

“ταύτῃ ἡμέρῃ, βρότειοι αἰνόν ὑπόμνημα ἐδεξάμεθα. Βιώσαντες δεδιότως Τιτάνων, ᾐσχυνόμεθα ἐνοικούντων τούτοις ἀναγκαίοις οἷς καλοῦμεν τείχη.”

-translation classicsenthusiast

"On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls."

requested by plinycapybara

(via classicsenthusiast)

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Some of my favorite sassy scenes in the first 32 pages of Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods.

[daedalusdefiant]

The last one.

[chryswatchesgot]

Chrys Watches GoT [x]

[onvavoiir]

so my plan for halloween is to dress up as a Nazgul with my black horse and go trick or treating but instead of saying “trick or treat” i’ll either scream or hiss “Bagginssssssssss, Shhhhhhhire” and then ransack their villages in my search for the One Ring

[onvavoiir]

i bet

you guys

thought

i was joking

[selkiewizard]

oh dear god

[couldjanot]

HOW MANY PEOPLE DID YOU TERRORIZE

[sp2009to2015]

"i want an anime with non binary characters!!"

"i want an anime with a visibly disabled character!!!"

"no, a visibly disabled POC!!! and make them a woman!! and dealing with extreme poverty and homelessness!"

"well, what about a POC with severe…

[historical-nonfiction]

A technician making the long walk to defuse a suspected car bomb in Northern Ireland.

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THERE’S A KID CALLED ALADDIN LIVING SOMEWHERE IN CHINA, AND HE’S A LITTLE SHIT. HIS PARENTS ARE TRYING TO EARN MONEY AND STAY ALIVE, AND HE JUST WANTS TO FUCK OFF AND PLAY FOOTBALL WITH HIS SHITTY FRIENDS IN THE STREET. IN FACT, HE’S SUCH A USELESS LITTLE SHIT THAT HIS FATHER DIES OF SADNESS AT...

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[taurisan]

Science.

[daedalusdefiant]

I can say from experience that science experiments are always either incredibly complicated or stupid looking and often both.

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[tyleroakley]

DOGS ARE SUCH GLORIOUS CREATURES.

[thefinalhidingplace]

Yes

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I love dogs so much oh my god

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[4gifs]

Seals are just aquatic dogs. [video]

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oh my god watch the video it’s literally a big slippery clumsy puppy it’s so adorable the video will warm your heart

[wishfulthinkment]

Hadrian’s Wall, Britain.

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Hadrian’s_Wall.htm

http://www.roman-britain.org/frontiers/hw_history.htm

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[nqthqn-blog]

i must take flight