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Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it started with style--with a dramatized adaptation of Brave New World, narrated by A...

Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World

Superman edition found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new record after Man of Steel comic found in a California home is auctioned.

Hey everybody, go check your mum's attic.
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky #books #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #bookish

Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa Still Hasn’t Fallen Over, Even After 650 Years The Leaning Tower of Pisa has stood, in its distinctive fashion, for six and a half centuries now. But it hasn't always leaned at the same angle: to get the most dramatic view, the best time to go see...

Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa Still Hasn’t Fallen Over, Even After 650 Years

Peace

Birds of a feather

Photo by Stephen Liptrot

Post a film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif.

Respectful celebration and remembrance of loved ones. Family members bring votives to light the darkness, food, drink, candy, flowers for the departed. Along a curved road, rows of seated figures with candles and tied bundles, layers of mountains, small church, and lake in the distance

Candlelight Ceremony
for the Day of the Dead

Día de Muertos
Noche de Muertos

Janitzio Island
Lake Pátzcuaro, México

George E. Holton (1945)

Underwater cuddles

A terracotta architectural fragment depicting a lion’s head with an open mouth (spout), attached to a decorated block featuring geometric and floral painted patterns. The artifact is weathered and displayed against an orange background on a shelf.

A marvellous painted terracotta sima with a lion head waterspout. A sima was a roof element that functioned as a gutter.

Found in Delphi, #Greece, dating late 5th century BC.

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#Archaeology 🏺

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Morning.

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only

a lab pup sits and looks up at the camera. his fur is a mottled blend of blond and black, and he’s standing on his leash with one front paw.

a closeup of baby finley resting his little chin on a blanket. one of his ears is curled under at the tip and his eyes look a little sleepy.

finley sits on a rock next to a body of water and squints slightly into the sun with his pink tongue sticking out.

This is Finley. He has a rare genetic mutation that causes patches of different colors in his coat. It is completely harmless, but it does make him completely handsome. 14/10 (IG: jaktlabben.finley)

These cats were put in separate cages because they kept fighting. #cat #catday #bluesky

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

Wow, #Roman tombstones really do get around - this one was rediscovered in New Orleans, after being transported across the Atlantic by unknown persons in the chaotic aftermath of WW2...

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A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

let the gourd times roll

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist, changed the way we thought about apes The scientist and conservationist made waves with her observations and advocacy

Jane Goodall, a towering figure in primatology whose observations of chimpanzee behavior in the wild and advocacy for their conservation made her a household name, died Wednesday at the age of 91. https://scim.ag/4mKKEg4

Fallon from THE PRESTIGE looking stunned

My face when Fallon is the only one remaining

This is how a seal's nose prevents water from entering its lungs.

Yay! 🥳

Still image from Weapons (2025) Children running down neighborhood street with arms out to their sides

Nobody:

Kids after watching Naruto once:

My favorite doctor and companion

Happy #BookLoversDay

As the late, great Groucho Marx once observed: "Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."

Pic: Oscar Marzaroli, outside John Smith & Son, in St Vincent Street, 1962.

Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times The expression 'YOLO' may now be just passé enough to require explanation. It stands, as only some of us would try to deny remembering, for 'You only live once,' a sentiment that reflects an eternal t...

Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times

we have to stop