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@needsmoreresearch
i really do think we should substitute gacha games instead for like. the random wikipedia article button. gives you the same "yay i got something new and exciting!" feeling without spending any money and you get to learn something new on wikipedia. the problem is that its missing a cute little storage menu where you can see all the links to different articles youve "collected"
so many people could be weaned off of gambling if we just gamified that website a *little* bit
okay so ummmmm. its real
Illustration for Audubon's Let's Go Birding Together initiative!!! 🐦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got
𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀𝒷𝒾𝓇𝒹𝓈!!!
Uh-oh! Someone just demolished your republic and declared himself emperor! Who would you rather it be?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sheev Palpatine
You can provide propaganda if you’d like
So most of you voted for Bonaparte
But not all. This wasn't 100%. Not...all of you chose to not vote for the guy who shoots lazers out of his fingers and collects Death Stars like Pokemon Cards
I think about this a lot.
Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906
Nessie beaker mug, 1968, by William John Clappison for Hornsea Pottery Co. Ltd.
Ancient Star Trek meme I reblogged in 2012
Stone Figure of Man holding a parrot, Tang dynasty, 7th Century. Unearthed from Huanghe Road in Chaoyang, Liaoning, China. Collection of Liaoning Province.
Courtesy Alain Truong
Medieval Reliquary in the Shape of a Three-Legged Fish, from Germany, c.900-1350 CE: this artifact was created as a vessel for the relics of Mary Magdalene
This strange-looking vessel is usually described as a "fish with legs," but some sources refer to it as a "flea-like insect" instead.
The body dates back to the 10th century CE, but the legs were added a few centuries later, likely during the 14th century. The vessel itself was carved from rock crystal (i.e. quartz) while the head, legs, and frame are all made from gilded silver.
As this book describes:
Around 1400, a grotesque animal was created whose rock crystal body, with a simple head and three stilt-like legs, encloses relics of Mary Magdalene in a drilled cylinder.
Apparently, a rock crystal container dating to the 10th century — according to Gerard Lemmens, “an oriental perfume bottle in the shape of a fish," or, according to Henk van Os, specifically one of the coveted Fatimid flacons — was reworked. It appears that the fins of the flacon were ground down slightly on the sides to allow the two twisted metal cords of the holder to fit more closely along the back and belly.
This reliquary was originally commissioned for the nuns of St. Vitus Church, located in Emmerich am Rhein, Germany, where it was meant to serve as a display case for the alleged relics of Mary Magdalene. It was later moved to the nearby Church of St. Martin, which is where it's currently housed.
The vessel contains a piece of parchment that may be wrapped around a human bone (or bone fragment), but the exact nature of that relic remains unclear.
Sources & More Info:
De Gruyter: Dingkulturen (I have a digital copy of this book, so if you want any additional information or excerpts from the text, feel free to message me)
Wikimedia Commons: Fish Reliquary from St. Vitus in Emmerich am Rhein
Schnütgen Museum: Exhibitions: Magic Rock Crystal
Medieval Art on Instagram: Highlights from the Rock Crystal Exhibition at Schnütgen Museum
Extremely tickled by Aubrey measuring snake length by FATHOM.
The Montpellier snake in fact does not usually exceed 1 fathom long (1.8m).
Yo cada vez q leo un post completo en portugués y no necesito traducción ni de una palabra to confidently rebblog it
Well, that’s pretty. I wonder what the heck I was planning to do with it because I sure don’t remember. Bookmark?
A little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by.
I've spent a lot of time peering down a microscope in the last few years, enjoying taking inspiration from the real tiny organisms to make one of my own.
2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published
Just read the phrase "he slipped on a condom" and I genuinely had to pause to wonder why the author included a scene where a guy stepped on a condom and slipped onto the ground like it was a banana peel in a looney tunes cartoon
Heracles and the Hydra
David Cusick was a Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) artist who self-published the first known English-language record of Indigenous stories told BY an Indigenous writer-illustrator. His book is called David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations and you can read it for free online.
