The phantoms

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Goniurellia tridens known as the 3-in-1-insect. 

When threatened it flashes its wings to give the appearance that insects are crawling back and forth to keep predators from attacking then it  "zips off.“ Although researchers are not yet certain what type of insect the fly is trying to mimic as a pattern on its wings, they are certain it is due to the abundance of predators on the tree they often reside on.

Isn’t nature just magical?

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Little Jumping Joan from "Mother Goose" "Here am I, Little Jumping Joan, When nobody's with me. I'm all alone." 「みて、みて、あたしを　リトル・ジャンピング・ジョーン　みんながそばにいないとき、あたしはずーっとひとりぽっち。」 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iic1ITaMzM0

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tourists.

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The dogs’ dinner party. Between 1859 and 1889. Illustration detail.

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Sweet Heart (Suweeto haato) from Ehagaki sekai / Bokuchitei Kuronbo

絵葉書世界より スウヰトハート　墨池亭黒坊　1907年

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Buckminster Fuller, Closest Packing Of Spheres, 1980

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Hand Gestures of the Legendary Peking Opera Master Mei Lanfang (梅蘭芳)

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友野るい Rui Tomono (@kyame)

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Lilliput magazine, May 1950 - cover by Ronald Ferns by mikeyashworth on Flickr.

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Renard Ivoire Japon, époque Edo © Raphaël Chipault et Benjamin Soligny / Musée Guimet Collections du musée d’Ennery, annexe du musée Guimet

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Masque de déité terrible pour danse rituelle cham Fin du 19e siècle carton, moulé, peint Tibet

© Musée Guimet, Paris, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

Section Tibet du musée Guimet

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Karborn doing what he do which is make fantastic creations.

“Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide.

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3600-Year-Old Cheese Found on Chinese Mummy! Vintage Gouda may be aged for five years, some cheddar for a decade. They’re both under-ripe youngsters compared with yellowish clumps – found on the necks and chests of Chinese mummies – now revealed to be the world’s oldest cheese. The Chinese cheese dates back as early as 1615 BC, making it by far the most ancient ever discovered.

The cheese, like the mummies, owes its existence to the extraordinary conditions at Small River Cemetery Number 5, in northwestern China. A mysterious Bronze Age people buried dozens of their own atop a large sand dune near a now-dry river, interring their kin underneath what looks like large wooden boats. The boats were wrapped so snugly with cowhide that it’s as if they’d been vacuum-packed. The combination of dry desert air and salty soil prevented decay to an extraordinary degree. The remains and grave goods were freeze-dried.

Some of the bodies had oddly shaped crumbs on their necks and chests. By analyzing the proteins and fats in these clumps it was determined that they’re definitely cheese, not butter or milk. It’s not clear why people were buried with bits of cheese on their bodies, though perhaps it was food for the afterlife. More - http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/25/worlds-oldest-cheese/5776373/

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Ignazio Perucca, San Bartolomeo, 1760

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