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a depiction of a thistle with spiky green stalk and leaves made from cut out painted paper and topped with pink flowers

The most beautiful thing you'll see all day: a depiction of a common thistle in watercolour, gouache and cut-out green paper pasted onto paper – the extraordinary work of multi-talented George Sand from 1848 (The Met)

excellent graph showing far more sophisticated deployment from Mercedes. They also seem slippery, evidenced by a significant speed difference entering the long back straight. #F1

nope, the deployment is better. If you had a graph of three merc teams with the same plot, then yes.

don't tell them about the shorts! or do.

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX — WEEKEND WEATHER OUTLOOK

Generally settled weekend with variable cloud cover. Strengthening breeze into the weekend. Cooler and cloudier on Saturday, turning clearer and warmer for Sunday.

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In that, I bet the prosecution is going to be hard.

All those world leaders that support this war should explicitly explain why they support Armageddon.

The bar may be low, but the expectations shouldn't.

March 1977

Good morning.

thats how i saw rossi

Oh shit. Stupid is happening.

There has to be a record amount of time you can live rent free in someone's head. Or is it that stupid is unbounded by time... Either way this guy needs to face consequences for murdering children.

McLaren gets Saucy.

I organise my desk the way I organise my thoughts.
There are layers.

If beer came in the afterlife I would be all for it.

Thats some nice calibration data there.

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,,

Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

F1 Testing Tech Top 5 – Craig Scarborough on the best 2026 innovations from Bahrain - Motorsport Technology F1 Testing Tech Top 5 - Craig Scarborough delves deeper into the best innovations from Formula One's Bahrain pre-season test sessions.

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A note on the Alpine rear wing. Dropping the moveable elements more inline with the main plane will me the air will reattach quicker. Probably adding a bit more predictability to the system.

Ferrari posted this. Just sharing it around #F1 It does have some very early CFD images.

Flavor Flav has invited the U.S. women's hockey team to Las Vegas to celebrate their Olympic victory.

This comes after the team declined Donald Trump's invitation to attend the State of the Union.

oooh yeah mak'n some graphs

YouTube video by nelson phillips Front Wing Details of the Ferrari 641/2

youtu.be/xi7e-xxV9s8
Latest video nutting out some details of front wings. The 1990's are a fascinating period of aerodynamics where ideas began to establish themselves. Particularly where complex interaction were present.

peaked under Bush. There is nothing more dignified than someone desperately hanging on to relevance....

This is how it is done while the pilot(piolet also works) bounces off the sides all the way down the track.

A really interesting article that explores how the sanctions that Iran has faced for the past two decades have shaped local architecture

In particular, how sanctions have been both an ‘obstacle’ and a ‘positive force’ on architecture

www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/an-i...

literally the neighborhood was cheering him on. 🤣

Kangaroos can be a road hazard. It took a while to understand what had happen and why the driver was covered in a liquid. The driver seemed slightly distressed as well. When the news came through it became obvious, not a pleasant experience. The car was heavily damaged.