The Frewen Cup, An Engraved Nautilus Shell Set In Silver Gilt Mounts, By John Plummer, England, C. 1650

When they made the hanging gardens of Babylon they were like. Let me make the most awesome garden ever. Then they did it. Beastmode.

Ace Double books from the late 50s and early 60s from my grandfather's collection.

each novel is doubled with the opposite cover.

Raffaella De Laurentiis on working with sandworms in Dune, 1984.

NGC 2174, Mystic Mountain Tops

BRENDAN FRASER accepts the award for ‘Best Actor’ at the 28th Critics Choice Awards (January 15, 2023)

This Overview shows a deforested area of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Since the mid-1980s, resettlement of people from the high plains of the Andes Mountains and a corresponding agricultural development effort known as the Tierras Bajas project has led to utter deforestation in this region. The pinwheel-patterned fields follow the San Javier resettlement scheme, with each pinwheel containing a central community that includes a church, bar/café, school, and soccer field. The light-colored areas of the formations are primarily fields of soybeans, and the dark lines running through the fields are “windbreaks” that prevent the erosion of the area’s unusually fine soil.

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“Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it; we carry that within us. It’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with; our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for.”

— Tenzin Palmo