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cactocoral:

Meus mimos, ambos eram de minha mãe antes de eu nascer. O anel é de uma pedra desconhecida, uso todos os dias! Quando está calor a pedra fica avermelhada, e no frio arroxeada. O brinco ganhei faz pouquíssimo tempo, é de pedra da lua.  

jtotheizzoe:

Peer into the center of the Milky Way with this stunning time-lapse video from Chile’s Paranal Observatory, by photographer Stéphane Guisard. Pretty perfect for a Friday, eh?

The bright streak that traverses our sky is the actual disk of our galaxy, the “milk” in our “way” is from the density of stars along the disk-like plane of our spiral home. You can also see a couple of our neighboring galaxies in there, dusty splotches against the inky dome.

Rebecca Rosen has more, with a nice reminder that any picture of a galaxy showing an arrow that says “you are here” is lying to you :) A Whole-Sky Time-Lapse of the Galactic Center - The Atlantic

Bonus: Take a look at this mind-bogglingly big snapshot of the Milky Way, a nine-gigapixel image containing more than 84 million stars. Think that’s a lot? It’s just 1% of the sky, and just this galaxy. It’s also my desktop background image!

aleyma: Cutlery set with coral, made in Italy in the late 16th century (source). “This preciously decorated and extremely rare coral cutlery set from the late 1500s would have been only used on extraordinary occasions, such as a wedding, a knighting or a state visit. In the late Renaissance, the guests would typically bring their own cutlery to formal dinners. An expensively decorated cutlery set would have elicited the host’s and other guests’ admiration. Besides, coral was believed to be an antidote against poison. Therefore, in the view of its time this set of cutlery would have offered its bearer special protection during a meal at the table of a rival family or of an untrustworthy foreign ruler.” - from the MIA description

aleyma:

Cutlery set with coral, made in Italy in the late 16th century (source).

“This preciously decorated and extremely rare coral cutlery set from the late 1500s would have been only used on extraordinary occasions, such as a wedding, a knighting or a state visit. In the late Renaissance, the guests would typically bring their own cutlery to formal dinners. An expensively decorated cutlery set would have elicited the host’s and other guests’ admiration. Besides, coral was believed to be an antidote against poison. Therefore, in the view of its time this set of cutlery would have offered its bearer special protection during a meal at the table of a rival family or of an untrustworthy foreign ruler.” - from the MIA description

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ancientart: Gold belt buckle from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo. Anglo-Saxon, early 7th century AD. From Mound 1, Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England. Courtesy & currently located at the British Museum, London. Photo taken by Michel wal.

ancientart:

Gold belt buckle from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo. Anglo-Saxon, early 7th century AD. From Mound 1, Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England.

Courtesy & currently located at the British Museum, London. Photo taken by Michel wal.

There is no major break-through of understanding that the NSA did the Pink Floyd thang on Logo. Money? Fuck ‘money’.

Something my aunt shared with me on the XO tribe in Botswana: “In their tribe? It was normal for kids watch their parents have sex. It was normal to protect land.”

Why was my family there, and way back when? The tribe needed clean water. If they didn’t need clean water? I wouldn’t be typing this.

(in a broadcast tone) - back to you Bro

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