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🔥 Aurora-like STEVE phenomenon
The Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement (STEVE), an unusual form of aurora borealis, photographed on September 5, 2022, above the Keweenaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan. (Image credit: Isaac Diener)
Emerson Paesiello - Barretts and cats, 1912
Two women and their cats, 3 October 1912
Six-sided Amber Bowl with Handles, ca.1660, by Jakob Heise [2800x2000]
on view: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer
A Roman glass phalera of Emperor Tiberius, early 1st Century AD [2800x2000]
Wax notebook, 13th or 14th century, Paderborn, Germany [2800x2000]
Found in excavated medieval latrine; leather case, wood cover and 10 pages coated with wax.
Kitty Gordon - cat in a baby buggy, ca. 1930, photographer: Blackington, Alton H.
Roman Brass Sheet Helmet, Weisenau Type, Flavian to Trajanic Period (ca. 69 – 117 AD) [3000x2000]
via Christies https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6455233
Demon Helmet, India or Persia, 19th Century [2800x2000]
An anthropomorphic "devil's head" helmet preserved in the permanent collection of the The David Collection (Davids Samling) museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Qajar-era Iran (Persia) or Northern India, produced around the 19th century.
Recently found gold sword scabbard fitting, 6th Century AD, Norway [2800x2000]
A hiker recently found a 1,500-year-old gold sword scabbard fitting in Sandnes, Norway. The sword it was mounted on likely belonged to an important chieftain.
Known as the chief of all Greek river gods, Achelous represents water’s life-giving and chaotic powers. The statuette captures Achelous as a river-god with a human face and a bull's body, reflecting his shifting, chthonic nature. The horns on this small figurine are missing, but traces remain.
fragment – stingray, near the the coast of Favignana Island, Sicily
American Aviator Moisant (1868-1910) was the first pilot to fly across the English Channel with two passengers, including the kitty in the picture, known as Mademoiselle Fifi or Paree. Moisant died in a fatal crash in 1910, but the cat lived on and attended his funeral.
Photograph of American model and actress Evelyn Nesbit (1884–1967) holding a cat. Labeled "The Florodora Mascot', 1901
In the 1970s Iraq mistakenly built their Ruwaished Air Base on Jordan's territory. In 1984 the two countries swapped land for Iraq to keep their base.
Base coordinates: 32.405090, 39.129629
A pair of Turkish ladies, painted in Italy – inscribed ‘Turca per Casa’ and ‘Cortigiana Turca’ – 18th century - from a past Sotheby's auction
Credit goes to the OP who referenced this image as his grandmother with her cat