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Eduard Fridrikhovich Kalnyn (Eduard Voldemar Kalnynsh) (1904-1988) Fishing in the North Atlantic, 1967

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Survivors and shocked residents of Hiroshima gather in the street ten minutes after the atomic bomb, 1945.

Semiplumbeous Hawk (Leucopternis semiplumbeus)

Sophus Jacobsen-Winter Wilderness Farm

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In 1948, a man donned 13-pound, three-toed cast-iron shoes and walked along a Florida beach at night. The footprints led people to believe a 4.5-meter-tall penguin was roaming their lands. It continued its mischief for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax was only exposed 40 years later

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Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) was an outstanding Italian guitarist, composer, and teacher. He is one of the most significant figures in the history of the classical guitar. He was born into an aristocratic family, first learning to play the cello.

A depiction of flying objects in a German alchemical text from the 17th century. The objects are large square stone blocks. Some of them are lying on the riverbed to the right, some on a hill to the left, and a pile on the road. Apparently, these are blocks from some ruined structure.

Swift's Great Mystery: Phobos, Deimos, and Time Travel. In the third part of "Gulliver's Travels" the flying island of Laputa is described. The book contains the following quote: "They also discovered two small stars or satellites revolving around Mars.

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates furcatus)

tejneger's Scoter (Melanitta stejnegeri)

Strange events in the skies over France in 1670. An interesting engraving dating from 1670. Title: "Representation of the terrible phenomenon observed in Touraine from August 5 to 15, 1670."

Perhaps one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century "A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed" (1903), C. M. Coolidge.

A small limestone tablet with carvings of two quails. In the upper left corner is a sketch of a third quail. Egypt, 400-30 BC. Stored in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Yellow-billed Duck (Anas undulata)

Salvador Dali, "Face of Mae West, which could be used as a surrealist apartment", 1934–35 Gouache, with graphite, on paper from a trade magazine.

Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates monorhis)

Italian artist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905) "Monks walking to the mountain monastery of Athos"

John Faed - "The Expulsion of Adam and Eve"

I'm not the religious type but this painting is wonderful. IGNACIO ZULOAGA (1870 — 1945) BLEEDING CHRIST (CRUCIFIXION) 1911. Canvas, oil. Madrid, Queen Sofia Museum.

Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich - "Misty Morning in Italy"

The Andromeda Galaxy is hurtling toward us at about 110 kilometers per second. In 4.5 billion years, it will collide with our Milky Way galaxy.

This makes me smile. A guy making noodles is the beat for a young throat singer.

Take the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), for example, which is located between 6,500 and 10,000 light years away. If we were to place our solar system in this nebula, it would simply be lost among these huge clouds of gas and dust.

Trethevy Quoit is a well-preserved megalithic structure between St Clair and Dariet in Cornwall, England. Locals call it the "Giant's House".

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I know little to nothing about football but as a Scotland Rugby supporter I do know about Scott McTominay. What an amazing season he has had and is now a winner of Serie A with Napoli.

Watching an old episode of Trek last night. Got me wondering what happens to the 'Red Shirt' staff who invariably get injured of worse.

In 1673, Cornelius and Rosa Barl received a prize of 100,000 guilders for the cultivation of... the black tulip. The obsession with this flower in the seventeenth century reached such a level that people went broke, while others became millionaires, all because they traded tulips.

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I'm posting this just because of the sublime colours.

One of the most unusual trees in the Czech Republic is called the Kamenice Linden. It was planted in 1248 in the park at Kamenice Castle, 130 km from Prague, so it will soon be 800 years old.

White Cottage Among Olive Trees, 1889 My favourite Vincent van Gogh painting.

Rabbits: Fragments of the Cluny tapestry, 15th century.

A marketing artifact of the past shows how far science has come in understanding the harm of smoking.

Watercolor work by Boris Alexandrovich Semenov (1917-1991)

Elizaveta Akimova. 2025

Roman slave collar (4th century AD) - an iron neck ring with a bronze tag attached. The "tag" reads: "I have escaped; hold me. When you return me to my master, you will receive a gold coin."

Common Sandpiper

So! Who fancies this one?

Yellow-throated Bunting / Emberiza elegans

A decoy cat was a device used to sell alcohol, namely gin, in 18th C London, in the form of a wooden cat. You were supposed to approach such a "machine", say the password "kiss!" into the cat's ear, after which a voice on the other side would respond "meow" and open a slot where you put money.

Bird song mechanism from 1890. Created in Paris by master Blaise Bontems. It is a complex system that changes the pitch, timbre and volume of the sound, which allows imitating birdsong.

When you're invited to play at a children's party, but you're a rock star. 😅 Sound up is a must.