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East Hollywood, Los Angeles

© Sinziana Velicescu

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Lucia & Mochi

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Picture window #highlandpark

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@jasranbeduki

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Behind the stage seats #disneyconcerthall #gehry #laphil

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Today’s daily cartoon by David Sipress.

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Tigre de Bali. Extinto en 1937 | ©Amaya Oyón/Artimalia 

Bali Tiger - Extinct in 1937

The Bali Tiger, Panthera tigris balica, was the smallest subspecies of the tiger Panthera tigris. Its weight did not exceed 100 kg. This subspecies lived on the Indonesian Island of Bali. As far as it is known its habitat was restricted to the shoreline region of the western part of the island.

The last Bali tigers lived in the north-western tip of the island. The last well-documented specimen was killed there at Sumbar Kima, West Bali, on 27th September 1937.

An exact date of extinction is unknown as throughout the 1940s reports persisted that tigers still lived on the island. These came from people considered to be reliable and they continued into the 1950s, though with a reducing frequency. One instance occurred in 1952 when a Dutch forestry officer reported seeing a Bali tiger. There have even sightings continued to surface in the 1970s. One suspected sighting was in a western reserve in 1970 and the Balinese Forestry workers reported another in 1972. Despite these positive reports it is almost certain that the Bali tiger is extinct and little chance it will ever be rediscovered. The remaining forest areas on Bali are simply no longer large enough to provide a tiger with the required shelter and food source.

References: [1] - [2]

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Still Life (c. 1680)

Rachel Ruysch

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http://thewallooner.blogspot.com/2014/08/fishing.html

Fishing by The Wallooner

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Cinturones de Guatemala

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oohhh

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Politico Reporter Doesn't Believe Senator's Story Of Sexism In Congress

UPDATE: 8:45 p.m. ET Bresnahan tweeted an apology for his comments later Wednesday night. A senior congressional reporter for Politico tweeted on Wednesday evening that he did not believe Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's claims that she had been subjected to sexist remarks and actions from her congressional colleagues. John Bresnahan is a longstanding and respected congressional reporter for Politico. But he responded skeptically after Gillibrand recalled several sexist encounters in a yet-to-be-released interview with People magazine about her forthcoming book. The New York Post reported on portions of the People interview Wednesday. Bresnahan weighed in when Huffington Post associate politics editor (and former TPMer) Igor Bobic tweeted out a headline about Gillibrand's reported tales of being told not to get "porky" and also told not "to lose too much weight... I like my girls chubby" by congressional colleagues.

Bresnahan is obviously vying for a job at Fox. 

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Lots of books coming out in paperback this week! In fiction…

The Humanity Project by Jean Thompson (Here she is on All Things Considered.)

The Affairs Of Others by Amy Grace Loyd (Here’s Rachel Louise Snyder’s review.)

In nonfiction …

Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc.) by Delia Ephron (Here she is on Fresh Air.)

Average Is Over by Tyler Cowen (Here he is on Morning Edition.)

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins (Here’s J.P. O’Malley’s review.)

Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch (Here she is on Morning Edition.)

League of Denial by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru (Here’s Mark on Morning Edition.)

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That Diane Ravitch book will probably say what I've been saying forever; Charter schools pose a very real threat to democracy. Can't wait to read it!

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Painted Eyebrow Trends in Tang Dynasty

This is a chart showing different eyebrow trends in the Tang Dynasty. It’s based on a chart in Chinese Clothing by Hua Mei and Gao Chunming (2004), on pg 37. I wanted to create a chart that had the eyebrows on faces. Interesting notes "Women of the Tang Dynasty paid particular attention to facial appearance, and the application of powder or even rouge was common practice. Some women’s foreheads were painted dark yellow and the dai (a kind of dark blue pigment) was used to paint their eyebrows into different shapes that were called dai mei(painted eyebrows) in general. There were literally a dozen ways to pait the eyebrows and between the brows there was a colourful decoration called hua dian, which was made of specks of gold, silver and emerald feather.” (5000 Years of Chinese Costume, 77) "…during the years of Yuanho in the reign of Xuanzong the system of costumes changed, and women no longer applied red powder to their faces; instead, they used only black ointment for their lips and made their eyebrows like like the Chinese character ‘八’." (5000 Years of Chinese Costume, 77) The black lipstick style “was called the ‘weeping makeup’ or ‘tears makeup’.” (Chinese Clothing by Hua Mei, 37)

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