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![]() | Workshop Cleanup It is not just spring, but also the time I take possession of my heritage, two workshops in our house. However, this part of our house has been neglected for far too long and needs a major cleanup. |
![]() | Caffe Latte Pouring milk foam for a Caffe Latte. |
![]() | The Alchemist Carl Spitzweg was a German romanticist painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era. Wikipedia |
![]() | Silver Pearls Just a stock photo to put on my article about fish silver imitation pearls, since I could nit find a real one. |
![]() | Smartphone Zombies Smartphone Zombies who are staring at their smartphones while walking. |
![]() | Greek Trireme "...at its top as well as by an overhanging rich carpet. Flat-bottomed, long, and narrow, these vessels sometimes reached a length of three hundred feet, and their speed, either when running before a wind or when propelled by oars, must have been anything but slow. As the Egyptian influence had been handed on to the Phoenicians and modified, so the Phoenicians handed onto Greece and Rome the ship as they had left her. We have abundant information as to Greek and Roman vessels, not merely from the writings of classical authors, but from most interesting discoveries that have been made in Greece, Italy and Northern Africa. In the year 1834, for instance, in the Piraeus were unearthed some highly important records of the Athenian dockyard superintendents, containing inventories of the Athenian arsenals of the fourth century b.c. These have since been elucidated and supplemented by further research. As early as the thirteenth century b.c, Greek vessels were sailing over the sea, and five hundred years 38..." src: "The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution" (1911) |
![]() | For a Few Dollars More Ending Duel The ending duel of For a Few Dollars More: In the still you see Lee Van Cleef as Colonel Douglas Mortimer and Gian Maria Volonte as El Indio, holding the watch. |
![]() | Billy The Kid Portrait of American gunman Billy the Kid (1859–1881). Image mirrored on vertical axis to correct widely-seen flopped tintype. Cartridge loading gate on Winchester Model 1873 lever action rifle is on the right side of the receiver. |
![]() | Ilha da Queimada Grande Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island, one of many Snake Islands around the world, is an island off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean. It is administered as part of the municipality of Peruibe in the State of Sao Paulo. The island is small in size and has many different types of terrain, ranging from bare rock to rainforest. The island has a temperate climate. The island is the only home of the critically endangered, venomous Bothrops insularis (golden lancehead pit viper), which has a diet of birds. The snakes became trapped on the island when rising sea levels covered up the land that connected it to the mainland. This left the snakes to adapt to their environment, increase rapidly in population and render the island dangerous to public visitation. Queimada Grande is closed to the public in order to protect this snake population; access is only available to the Brazilian Navy and selected researchers vetted by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, the Brazilian federal conservation unit. src: Wikipedia |
![]() | Pando Aspen Overview, Richfield Ranger District, Fishlake National Forest, Utah, United States. This image is a work of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. |