Tuesday, April 30, 2019


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.





Nature photographers will often come across some rather eyebrow-raising things out in the wild. Nothing is a better example of this than what Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen managed to capture – a wild bear and wolf keeping a close friendship out in the wilderness. “It’s very unusual to see a bear and a wolf getting on as this” Lassi explains, yet the female grey wolf and male brown bear seem to be getting on fine as evidenced by the photographs of them with one another. They were actually spotted together for a whopping ten days, where they would enjoy each other’s company for quite some time, often between 8 pm and 4 am.



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.
 



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


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wilson#/media/File:Edith_Wilson_cropped_2.jpg



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]



On April 26, 1777, Sybil Ludington rode her horse, Star, 40 miles (64 km) through the night in Putnam County, New York, to warn approximately 400 militiamen under the control of her father that British troops were planning to attack Danbury, Connecticut, where the Continental Army had a supply depot. On her way to gather her father's troops, she warned the people of Danbury.
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]





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.



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.


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!




























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