“The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More A curious thing happened at the end of the 19th century and the dawning of the 20th.

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8 photos of the same woman in various poses

Contact sheet of Billie Holiday recording the album Music for Touching
Phil Stern, 1955

The Wendigo is a terrifying spirit from Algonquin folklore, born when a human resorts to cannibalism. It is a creature of eternal hunger no matter how much it eats. It can mimic human voices to lure its former friends into the winter woods. #NorthAmerica #Horror

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🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Contemporary #HongKong #ZhengMahler
Zheng Mahler (Royce Ng & Daisy Bisenieks)
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A VIRTUAL BAT?, 2022
Mosaic on Tin Hau Temple, Lantau Island, Hong Kong

+++ Today, the 22nd of April 2026, is (Hollow) Earth Day! +++

As a small child in 1968, these alleged pictures from the ESSA-7 weather satellite, always fascinated me.

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#OTD #Earthday #HollowEarth

A black and white drawing of a man with his face set into his chest. A bird's head and neck extends from where his head should be. He also has lil' wings like a wee Cupid-fella.

Plate from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, '𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘪 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘪 𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪' (Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, circa 1585).

#WyrdWednesday

A pesar de los múltiples problemas que atravesó su producción, “Cinco Muñecas para la Luna de Agosto” es un giallo juguetón que demuestra la absoluta brillantez de Mario Bava. El director italiano consigue sacar a flote un proyecto que en otras manos no pasaría de insulso. El guionista…

The first Earth Day | April 22, 1970 | HISTORY Earth Day, an event to increase public awareness of the world’s environmental problems, is celebrated in the U.S. for...

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Never Give In. #SittingBull

#Joe

#LaStrada

#VD

#Yoyo

#ThePit

#Limite

#ForbiddenWorld

#LifewithBlondie

#TheFunHouse

#TheBlackRoom

#PureasaLily

#MondoCane2

Christopher Lee wouldn’t lead us astray.

Impeccably researched and ever readable, some of the myths are put to rest, but the legends are still there. A great history of the time.

Rasputin’s frozen body after being pulled from the Malaya Nevka River in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg). Then, after being thawed out for autopsy.

#TheAudreyHepburnStory

#Jeopardy