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Henri Auvray, viper hunter from Tonnerre, Yonne, France

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1912 to Paris

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He contemplates his own severed head. Les récréations photographiques. 1891.

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Three Women from Look Pleasant, Please exhibition, photos 1839-1900, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts

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Dated January 29, 1912 from Duluth, Minnesota.

Your Picture Would Fit Nice In My Frame.🖼

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Porcile (1969, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)

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Thomas Wright, A history of caricature and grotesque in literature and art, 1875

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Peter Hujar - Palermo Catacombs, 1963

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Nous sommes à la veille d'une RÉVOLUTION — SURRÉALISME — Vous pouvez y prendre part. Le BUREAU CENTRAL DE RECHERCHES SURRÉALISTES, 15, Rue de Grenelle, Paris-7e, est ouvert tous les jours de 4 h. 1/2 à 6 h. 1/2.

We are on the eve of a REVOLUTION — SURREALISM — You can take part in it. The CENTRAL BUREAU OF SURREALIST RESEARCH, 15, Rue de Grenelle, Paris-7th, is open every day from 4:30 to 6:30

The Bureau was a real office where anyone could come to discuss dreams, automatic writing, and the irrational.

Announcement in the first issue of La Révolution Surréaliste, December 1, 1924.

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Origin of Human Eyes Traced to 560-Million-Year-Old One-Eyed ‘Cyclops’

Before vertebrates had two eyes, their ancestors may have looked upward with one.

Deep inside the human brain, a small gland in the middle of the forehead helps keep time. As darkness arrives, the pineal gland helps set the body’s nightly rhythm. But some creatures use the pineal gland as a sort of “third eye”, helping them detect light and shadow, though the organ doesn’t form pictures. Our human lineage lost this ancestral ability millions of years ago. In a review published in Current Biology, researchers from Lund University and the University of Sussex argue that the lineage leading to vertebrates passed through a cyclops-like stage roughly 560 million years ago. The animal was not a one-eyed giant, but probably a tiny, wormlike marine filter feeder with a light-sensitive organ on top of its head. As its descendants returned to active swimming, parts of that central organ expanded sideways and were repurposed into paired retinas...

Read more: Origin of Human Eyes Traced to 560-Million-Year-Old One-Eyed ‘Cyclops’

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Kimball Twins, Iron Jaw, circa 1920s. Frederick Whitman Glasier (1866–1950) photograph.

The Kimball Twins performed the iron jaw, a “daring display of dental dexterity,” and flew through the air “revolving and twisting while suspended by their teeth.”