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[memories-of-ancients]

Stamp seal, Indus Valley Civilization, 2500-2000 BC

from The British Museum

[humanoidhistory]

Truly remarkable.

[phillycuriosity]

I’m glad we know what ancient MDMA tablets looked like

[mapsontheweb]

Ability to speak Welsh by county in Wales

[phillycuriosity]

Was no one going to tell me there’s a region or regions of Wales that looks like a cowboy going executioner style with a blaster pistol at an island?

[culturenlifestyle]

World Map is Redesigned & Corrected to Accurately Portray Earth

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wordsnquotes:

Japanese designer Hajime Narukawa has invested years studying geography and the world of maps. Whether you know it or not, the current map version we follow, composed by Gerardus Mercator in 1569 is deeply flawed. In this erroneous map, Alaska is shown to be the same size is Brazil, which is a mistake. Brazile is almost five times larger than Alaska in reality. Along with this flaw, many others can be found.

Keep reading

[phillycuriosity]

Why do people keep shitting on the Mercator projection?  It has some bad-ass properties like the fact that angles are constant which is the shit when you’re on a boat AND CROSSING A FUCKING OCEAN.  You know who really used maps a lot when this guy was banging out maps?  PEOPLE ON BOATS WHO WERE CROSSING THE FUCKING OCEAN. Calling the Mercator projection a flawed projection is like calling a hammer a deeply flawed screwdriver.

[arcaneimages]

[phillycuriosity]

Once Batman finished reading all known books he moved on to reading chairs.

[sexpigeon]

Dankly swagger he did down chill-ass streets one athleisure afternoon, unaware as yet of the shitty fuckstorm that was shredding his way…

[phillycuriosity]

This sounds like an inordinately creative PR person for The Gap was spitballing ideas for some viral ad campaign.

[tohdraws-deactivated20181120]

TARS from Interstellar and Baymax of Big Hero 6. I love these two robots. Both has their merits. 

[phillycuriosity]

This may be the first form of slash fiction I'd ever read.

[mountainmoonvolcano]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(comic by mountainmoonvolcano)

[phillycuriosity]

The second panel alone had me laughing for minutes.

[mapsontheweb]

World Map in the manner of Piet Mondrian

[phillycuriosity]

This is wonderful.

[phillycuriosity]

[phillycuriosity]

Remember kids, being a Goth isn’t about the wearing a particular style of clothes or listening to certain types of music…

It’s about ravaging the Balkans, threatening to sack Constantinople, actually sacking Rome and eventually establishing permanent kingdoms in Southern Gaul and the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas.

Seriously, the Iberians have been awfully uppity.

[phillycuriosity]

From here it looks like William Penn is passing judgment on the Municipal Services Building.

[phillycuriosity]

This the view from my breakroom at 7:45 am. I think I may try to get in early more.

[nubbsgalore]

the autumnal colour spectrum

(photos by rob herr, richard shilling, ryan connors, evie jaye, mr. dale)

[phillycuriosity]

These are gorgeous.

[tastefullyoffensive]

Hun. [anaxid]

[phillycuriosity]

This is a remarkably fast build up considering the length of the pun.

[phillycuriosity]

[phillycuriosity]

Clock in Cambridge, England known as the Chronophage.  The clock speeds up and slows down and is only exact to the second every fifteen minutes.  The lights are from a continuous LED disc and the second and minute is show using vernier sights.  It's big, gold, and gorgeous.

[tastefullyoffensive]

Name Improvements for Everyday Stuff [x] Previously: Crazy Ideas That Are Borderline Genius

[phillycuriosity]

These all seem like phrases that'd be generated if the Germans had to suddenly describe them.