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Закрытое Предприятие - «После Третьей Войны»
I posted a version of this fanlation previously. Now with more line breaks!
Background The Iceman mummy, a 5300-year-old natural alpine glacier mummy, provides a unique opportunity to study ancient microbial ecosyste
4 June 2026
A HOT TURN IN THE WEATHER!!
An artist has completed an 18ft (5.6m) drawing of buildings on one of Lincoln's oldest streets.
The co-built virtual world will be presented at DocFest's Alternative Realities Exhibition in June.
The recycled cardboard model depicts Union Corner's iconic dome and roof signs.
1. Ketsch- a vessel with two masts, the front main mast and the aft mizzen mast, which is getting smaller and smaller. The ketch has its mizzen mast within the (construction) waterline.
2. Schooner- a schooner is a sailing ship which has two or more masts, has scraper sails as main sails on all masts and whose foremost mast is lower than (one) the aft mast(s).
3. Topsail schooner - This term describes the rigging of the ship, not the type of ship. It is a two- or three-masted sailing vessel rigged primarily with fore-and-aft sails (gaff mainsail and staysails) but featuring one or more square topsails on the foremast.
4. Brigantine - a brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.
5. Brig- A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the latter part of the 19th century.
6. Barkentine - while a full-rigged ship is square-rigged on all three masts, and the barque is square-rigged except for the mizzen-mast, the barquentine extends the principle by making only the foremast square-rigged.
7. Bark - a barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.
8. Full rigged ship - a full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged, with each mast stepped in three segments: lower, top, and topgallant.
9. Ewer - classic fishing and transport vessel of the Lower Elbe with flat bottom and side swords. It is rigged as single mast as well as one and a half mast.
10. Galeass- mostly a two-masted coastal sailer, ketch rigged, especially common in the Baltic Sea. Length rarely over 20 meters.
11. Tjalk - old East Frisian-Dutch coastal vessels with flat bottom, side swords and round ship ends. Rigging as one or one and a half master. Still common in the Netherlands.
12. Cutter - is a single-masted rig with two or more foresails – typically a jib and a staysail
Punch Brothers - Song of the Water Kelpie (Unsung)
Heard this on BBC Radio 2 programme: The Folk Show broadcasted for [2026-06-03]
World’s most dangerous bird has bizarre, glowing headgear
Structures on cassowaries’ skulls fluoresce under UV light, hinting at a hidden visual signal
Often labeled “the world’s most dangerous birds,” cassowaries just got even more intriguing. The aggressive, flightless birds have structures on top of their heads called casques, the purpose of which has long confused scientists. To the human eye, casques look fairly plain—but new research published last month in Scientific Reports finds this headgear fluoresces under ultraviolet (UV) light, possibly aiding the birds’ visual displays...
Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-most-dangerous-bird-has-bizarre-glowing-headgear
The naturalist’s library - William Jardine - 1833 - via Internet Archive
May 17, 2026 - Pale-legged Warbler (Myiothlypis signata) These warblers are found in forests in the Andes from central Peru through Bolivia to northwest Argentina. They primarily eat invertebrates, foraging on or near the ground in pairs or family groups and joining mixed-species flocks. While little is known about their breeding behavior, juveniles have been observed in December and February and a male in breeding condition was likely seen in June.
Another of my favourite creations: a sparkly noodly dragon friend...
...who is also a lamp!
The lamp itself was store-bought and came in that twisty shape, but it occurred to me that I could use my crochet powers to make it much cooler! The dragon wasn't crocheted around the lamp; rather, he was made as two long strips, one for the back and one for the belly, which were sewn together along one side and then wrapped around the lamp and the other sides sewn together there. I chose (mostly-)white yarn for the belly with a loose-weave sort of pattern, so the light would shine through.
I had fun using a lot of sparkly yarn and thread and adding extra frills to make him super fabulous! And don't worry, the lamp is an LED that never gets remotely hot, so there's no danger of fire from this dragon, only light!
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my commissions are open - see my pinned post for more details. I won't make you an entire lamp, but I can make you something simpler!
continuing the reblogging of my coolest creations here: everyone look at my dragon lamp
Poldine ♪
Poldine 🎵
Poldine, Poldiiine 🎶
I’m begging of you please don’t take my cat ♪
Please don’t take her just because you can ♫
She talks about you in her sleep—
There’s nothing I can do to keep ♪ From crying when she calls, Poldine,
And I can easily understand How you could easily take my cat ♫
You could have your choice of cats 🎶
Poldine, Poldine ♫ Poldine, Poldiiine I’m begging of you please don’t take my cat ♫
Thank you for watching Poldine & The Cats’ first music video! No cats were harmed in the making of this clip, but two were mortified and one had her fur ruffled in the wrong direction by clumsy baby llama kisses.
Sally Snowman, 70th lighthouse keeper of Boston Light (2003-2023)
Heard about her on BBC Radio 4 programme: Woman's Hour broadcasted for [2023-12-27]. Segment summary [10min interview]:
[starts at timestamp 15:40] Sally Snowman is the last official lighthouse keeper in the United States and at the end of this month she will retire after two decades of service. She's the first and last woman to be the lighthouse keeper for Boston Light in Massachusetts. She joins Krupa to discuss what it's like being a lighthouse keeper and how she feels about leaving it.
poem in the comments section [yt]: Bruce Kiskaddon - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
We watched through the night, our beacon bright For ships in peril upon the sea Like all the watchmen of old, the story is told My lighthouse and me
For hundreds of years we calmed their fears With a single ray of light Sailors new and old and brave and bold Found solace in the night
Now the old way is gone and we march along The last keeper has retired Electronic gear is the new thing, I hear To keep your ship from the mire
The light will stay on from dusk to dawn And the beacon will be large But sailors beware, the lighthouse is bare The keeper has been discharged
[2014-08-14] The Nantasket Beach Lecture Series: Boston Lighthouse - by Light Keeper Sally Snowman
Helen Mort explores the allure of the lighthouse as their sweeping beams are modernised.
programme summary [28min]:
Helen Mort explores the allure of lighthouses, as one by one their sweeping beams are turned off.
Lighthouse optic lenses are things of beauty, their concentric glass prisms refracting light into a powerful beam that sweeps across the sea. But these lights need to evolve over the next decade to remain fit for purpose – the reliance on mercury in the rotating system is hazardous; the new LED lights can be powered by solar. The rotating, sweeping beam is replaced by a flash, which reports suggest look largely the same to the mariner at sea, but as each lighthouse has its lens mechanism overhauled, the people who live around them notice the difference and many mourn the change.
Some of the romance of lighthouses has already been stripped away in reality – they were automated through the 1980s and 1990s, so there are no manned lighthouses now. Working lighthouses are becoming an endangered species, as they are decommissioned to become tearooms and holiday lets. But they remain iconic structures, and an enduring source of fascination for poets.
In 'The Last Sweeping Beams' Helen meets those who have felt a lifelong pull towards the hypnotic sweep of their lights. For Edward Peppitt, the beam from Dungeness lighthouse passing along his bedroom wall as a child led to an obsession with lighthouses, culminating in a 3,500-mile cycle ride to visit every onshore and offshore lighthouse around England and Wales, despite a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Helen talks to Emma Stonex, author of 'The Lamplighters', who immersed herself in the lives of lighthouse keepers in researching her book, which revisits the story of the vanishing of three keepers from a Scottish lighthouse in 1900. It's a story also told in Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's poem 'Flannan Isle', and a mystery still unsolved. Poet Glyn Maxwell explores the significance of the lighthouse beam in his mentor Derek Walcott's poem 'The Lighthouse', and writer Joe Moran explains his fascination with the iconic structures: the warning light reaching out to invisible others is a concrete symbol of our common humanity, of the fact that people we may never meet are also our concern.
At the heart of the programme, a new poem by Helen reflects on the lives that used to be spent in lighthouses, and explores the meaning of the sweeping light that has been sent out to sea for centuries.
With location recordings made at Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset
Producer: Megan Jones Sound design: Catherine Robinson A BBC Audio Wales production for Radio 4
The letter to be exhibited in Edinburgh provides details on the 126-year-old Flannan Isles' mystery.
A Coign of Vantage (1895) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836 – 1912), oil on canvas, 64 in x 44.5 cm (25 in x 17.5 in), Private Collection