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By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

elodieunderglass

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

lemonmancer

I mean yeah he’s evil and all but what if I were his favourite

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does anybody else remember head on

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apply directly to the forehead

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this was a real commercial for a real product sold on television. and now i know what you're thinking. "there's no way this headache medication actually worked." and well that's where they got you, smart guy. you can't call it false advertising because at no point in this product's marketing did it ever claim to actually medicate anything

#HEAD ON: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD x10 #learned at mothers' day this year my sister-in-law had never seen these commercials #a tragedy we swiftly cured #as quickly as applying directly to one's forehead!

sacred-portal

#it's so LITTLE!#bunnies

miamaimania

English Art Deco Sterling Silver Coffee Service (1932–33; tray 1935–36) ⏢ Charles Boyton, London

#art deco

speciesbarocus

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Battle between Carnival and Lent (1559). Detail.

#how your email finds me

ddestroyangels

In a Roman Osteria by Carl Heinrich Bloch, detail, 1866, oil on canvas

National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen

#a very good likeness of my own little Mister

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"Pa-tcha, the destroyer god of locusts and harmful insects." Recherches sur les superstitions en Chine. Researches into Chinese superstititons. 1915.

Shrines to Pa-tcha were maintained specifically for petitioning against locust plagues,

Internet Archive

Vladimir Tretchikoff

"The periodical cicada (Magicicada septendecim) just after emergence from its nymphal skin. Snodgrass, R.E. The Periodical Cicada. Insects, their ways and means of living. Smithsonian Scientific Series, v.5 (1930). Art by R.E. Snodgrass." [Biodiversity Heritage Library]

#screamin' season is right around the corner