Couldn’t resist. Been there right?
Maybe he was looking at this.
Meet
the Sloan’s viperfish: It uses light-producing photophores to lure unsuspecting
prey toward its mouth—where hinged teeth rotate inward to trap its prey.
Animal Stuff
The
fangtooth moray eel's dagger-sharp teeth really make an impression—and those
are just the teeth we can see. On the weaponry hidden deep inside the eel’s
throat:
Glad I never ran into these guys but did have six Green Panamic Morays checking me out once. Got too close to a "nest".
Mating season turns these normally solitary mountain hares into hostile foes. Males duke it out for the most prized mate—and females aren't passive spectators.
Mating season turns these normally solitary mountain hares into hostile foes. Males duke it out for the most prized mate—and females aren't passive spectators.
Animals, gotta love them
A small tribute to the women. I was raised by four strong, independent, intelligent women...I owe them much.
“What
is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have
read in my life
Walt
Whitman
Edward Robert Hughes - A Young Beauty, 1875.
Edward Robert Hughes - A Young Beauty, 1875.
President
Wilson suffered a severe stroke in October 1919. Edith
Wilson began to screen all matters of state and decided which were important
enough to bring to the bedridden president. In doing so, she de facto ran the executive branch of the government for the
remainder of the president's second term, until March 1921.[1
The only direct reference to Agent 355 in any of the Culper Ring's missives was from Abraham Woodhull ("Samuel Culper Sr."), to General George Washington.[3] Woodhull described her as "one who hath been ever serviceable to this correspondence."[4]
The true identity of Agent 355 is still unknown, but some facts about her seem clear. She worked with the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War as a spy. She would have been recruited by Woodhull into the spy ring.[1] The way the code is constructed indicates that she may have had "some degree of social prominence."[2] She was likely living in New York City,[5] and at some point had contact with Major John Andre and Benedict Arnold.[6][7] One person who may have been Agent 355 was Anna Strong.[5] She was Woodhull's neighbor.[5] Another theory is that Agent 355 may have been Robert Townsend's common-law wife.[1] Stories about Townsend state that he was in love with Agent 355.[8] John Burke and Andrea Meyer have made a different case for 355's involvement in the spy ring using circumstantial evidence that she may have been close to Major John André and also to Benjamin Tallmadge, thereby protecting Woodhull from accusations of being a spy.[9] Other possible candidates for 355 include Sarah Horton Townsend and Elizabeth Burgin.[10]
It is also occasionally believed that there was no Agent 355, but rather that the code indicated a woman who had useful information, but wasn't "formally connected to the ring."[11] The code itself may have referred to "a woman," not an agent who was a woman.[3]
Agent 355 is thought to have played a major role in exposing Arnold and the arrest of Major John André, who was hanged in Tappan, New York.[1] She may have been member of a prominent Loyalist family which would put her within easy reach of British commanders.[1][4]
Sybil's father, Colonel Henry Ludington, had fought in the French and Indian War. He volunteered to head the local militia during the American Revolution. Due to her father's position, Sybil had to move from town to town following her father, and unknowingly played an important role in the success of the colonies. The afternoon after Sybil warned residents of Danbury, the British troops burned down three buildings and destroyed multiple houses, but did not kill many people. Unlike accounts about the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes before the outbreak of the Revolution, little was told of Sybil Ludington's ride for personal reasons; the only record of this event was written by her great grandson. Ludington's ride started at 9 p.m. and ended around dawn.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Ludington#/media/File:Ludington_statue_800.jpg
And of course "Mother Earth".
And of course "Mother Earth".
The gardener has a long, touchy-feely relationship
with the soil. As every good cultivator knows, you assess the earth by holding
it. Is it dark and crumbly, is there an earthworm or beetle in there, is it
moist, and when you smell it, are you getting that pleasant earthy aroma?
All these signs are reassuring, and have been through
the ages, but they are mere indicators of something much greater and infinitely
mysterious: a hidden universe beneath our feet.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218241367329409&set=pcb.10218241374969600&type=3&theater
The Mother nourishes everywhere.
The Mother nourishes everywhere.
Don't forget the trees, Mother Earths connection to the sky
Some miscellaneous interest items
Overbite from soft foods has left us with the ability to pronounce and v and f
While they were once widely feared,
lesser long-nosed bats are gradually attaining something of a hero-like status,
thanks to their critical role in pollinating the agave plants used to make
tequila.
https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/a.1168248919861716/2411903568829572/?type=3&theater
Cannot skip astronomy
Cannot skip astronomy
Almost 13,000 Years Ago, a Comet Impact Set Everything on Fire
Roughly 12,800 years ago, planet Earth went through a brief cold snap that was unrelated to any ice age. For years, there have been geologists that have argued that this period was caused by an airburst or meteor fragments (known as the Younger Dryas Impact Theory). This event is believed to have caused widespread destruction and the demise of the Clovis culture in North American.
More Evidence that Planet 9 is Really Out There
What’s going on in the distant reaches of our Solar System? Is there a Planet 9 out there?Out in the frigid expanse of our System, there are bodies on orbital paths that don’t make sense in terms of our eight-planet Solar System. There seems to be an undiscovered body out there, several times more massive than Earth, shaping the orbits of some Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), and driving astronomers to look deeper and more thoroughly into the extreme reaches of our System.
What they’re looking for is the mysterious, and so far unproven, ninth planet.
Dr.
Scott Sheppard and his team are searching for the elusive and unproven Planet X
(aka Planet 9), a hypothetical planet way out in the Solar System that is
supposedly more massive than Earth and is causing objects in that neighborhood
to clump together. As the team examines the nether regions of the Solar System
looking for Planet X, they keep finding planets further and further away.
And it's all chemistry, what a trip!
