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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)

u/SashSegal — 1 day ago

Six-sided Amber Bowl with Handles, ca.1660, by Jakob Heise [2800x2000]

on view: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer

u/SashSegal — 5 days ago

Wax notebook, 13th or 14th century, Paderborn, Germany [2800x2000]

Found in excavated medieval latrine; leather case, wood cover and 10 pages coated with wax.

u/SashSegal — 7 days ago

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.

u/SashSegal — 9 days ago
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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.

u/SashSegal — 14 days ago
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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.

u/SashSegal — 15 days ago
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fragment – stingray, near the the coast of Favignana Island, Sicily

u/SashSegal — 16 days ago

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.

u/SashSegal — 18 days ago

Photograph of American model and actress Evelyn Nesbit (1884–1967) holding a cat. Labeled "The Florodora Mascot', 1901

u/SashSegal — 20 days ago

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

u/SashSegal — 20 days ago
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A pair of Turkish ladies, painted in Italy – inscribed ‘Turca per Casa’ and ‘Cortigiana Turca’ – 18th century - from a past Sotheby's auction

u/SashSegal — 19 days ago