Some Things Wonderful

October’s Hunter’s Moon on Full Display This Weekend    After September’s Harvest Moon, stargazers are in for a real treat this weekend when the glowing orange Hunter’s Moon will be on full display. On October 13, the sky will be ablaze with this brilliant full moon which peaks at 22:07 pm GMT (5:07 pm EDT)

 “I laid my double-barrel twelve-gauge shotgun on the bank next to me,” he recalled. Moments later, “the water exploded in front of me: a very large anaconda head shot out of the water and whizzed just inches from my face. I immediately went into a rage: this son-of-a-bitch of a snake was trying to kill me!” Chagnon began firing rounds into the snake, which violently twisted and turned as he reloaded, fired, and reloaded.  The Dangerous Life of an Anthropologist –

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Cat-Butt Tissue Holder |  Your friends and family will think there’s something mentally wrong with you when they lay eyes upon this atrocious product.

The Harpy Eagle Is A Giant Bird – So Large, That People Often Think It’s Just A Person In A Costume

Venus of Willendorf: A 30,000-Year-Old Figurine That Continues to Captivate  The Venus of Willendorf is a 4.4-inch tall carving discovered in Willendorf, Austria. It is believed to have been crafted between 30,000 and 25,000 BCE, making it one of the world’s oldest known works of art.

Russian Meteorologist That Spent 30 Years In The Loneliest Place On Earth where even rain is a good companion…

The ‘World’s Biggest’ War Diorama, A State-Funded Exhibition Recreates The Battlefields Of WWII In Brutal Detail

Comparative Media Studies 201: “Heterosexual Undertones in Top Gun”   Whether it is a glance, a throwaway line (“You always go home with the hot women”), or the scenes where Maverick has sex with a woman, there are subtle instances of straightness that are impossible to deny. It is unclear if director Tony Scott intended this reading, but too many clues exist for it to be purely coincidental. These details appropriately fly under the viewer’s radar, much as Maverick did to the MiG in the film’s opening dogfight.

In Girls We Trust: The Superb Bic Pen Illustrations By Helena Hauss

The Stoic Emperor: “For a few centuries man has tried to make himself like a machine. He’s learned to arrive on time. He’s learned to repeat after teacher. He’s learned to do repetitious tasks reliably. Machines are now better at being machines than man is. Man must now relearn how to be man.”

Three Colours Beautiful: The Astonishing Early Colour Photography of Bernard F. Eilers   Bernard F. Eilers (1878-1951) had his own photographic business in Amsterdam, Holland. During the 1930s, business was poor. No-one wanted to hire a photographer or have a studio portrait taken. This lull in business caused by the Great Depression allowed Eilers to concentrate on developing a new process of colour photography. Over eighteen-months, Eilers tried and failed, tried and failed to devise his colour photographic technique.

The days of the drive-in movie theaters, 1930-1950   Though there were drive-ins as early as the 1910s, the first patented drive-in was opened on June 6, 1933 by Richard Hollingshead in New Jersey. It offered room for 400 vehicles. He created it as a solution for people unable to comfortably fit into smaller movie theater seats after creating a mini drive-in for his mother. Appealing to families, Hollingshead advertised his drive-in as a place where “The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.”

These Stunning Botanical Images Are Blueprints of the Past    Two 90-year-old albums document what a 12-year-old photographer did on her summer vacation.

BEEN THERE, READ THAT: Newspaper Rock – Monticello, Utah   More recent carvings, beginning around 650 years ago, show men on horseback, some armed with bows and arrows. The relative age of the petroglyphs can be determined by the amount of desert varnish covering the figures, with the older designs typically being darker in color due to the repatination of surface minerals.

The Gobi Desert Is a Red Sea of Chili Peppers

The big secret is that there are many secrets left to uncover. There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them. — Peter Thiel’s Religion 

$3G ‘Jesus Shoes’ filled with holy water sell out within minutes |   Brooklyn-based creative label MSCHF is responsible for releasing the shoe, which is a pair of all-white Nike Air Max 97s — though the design is in no way affiliated with Nike — that have been injected with holy water sourced from the Jordan River. The water, which is visible in the see-through sole, has some coloring added to enhance visibility.

Pumpkin Spice: Now For Men –   You’re a man. You’re into man stuff, like weed whackers, sports that cause brain damage and getting hired by your dad’s golf friends. But it’s autumn. And something feels different. With each falling leaf, you feel a strange desire building in the area beneath your left pectorals. You think lady-people sometimes call this area the “heart.” You long for flavor infused with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and — could it be — allspice?

Beauties Of Octoberfest, The World’s Most Iconic Beer Festival 2019

Komodo Dragons Are Covered in a Suit of Armor Under Their Scales

Hans Guerin – Lines and Colors