Found these angel wings in a beautiful place. Pleurocybella porrigens.
a White Faced Ibis…
POV: the beautiful winged giant creature turns into human-sized?! But he has nothing to wear. What will you give him? > Coat > Pants #WV #woodvash #TRIGUNSTAMPEDE
[EGYPT 29584] 'Setting of the sun in Hathor Temple at Dendera.' A winged setting sun is swallowed by the sky goddess Nut on the astronomical ceiling in the outer hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera. The ceiling consists of seven separate strips but here we are looking the southern end of the WESTERNMOST STRIP. The entire strip is enveloped by the outstretched body of the sky goddess Nut but we see only the upper part of her body in this picture. After swallowing the sun it will travel through her body and she will give birth to it in the morning at the other end of the strip (see picture 29592). On the right we see the beginning of the two registers which make up the rest of this ceiling strip. In the upper register the two standing goddesses who have a star above their head are personifications of the first and second hour of the night. The goat-headed fish between them is the zodiac sign Capricorn. There are six zodiac signs depicted in the entire westernmost strip (see picture 29587 till 29590) and the other six can be found on the easternmost ceiling strip of the hall (see picture 29526). These signs are of Babylonic-Greek origin and are not found in Egypt before it was conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The bull-headed bird above the fish-goat personifies the planet Saturn. The god in the boat is decanal star number 17. In fact, the lower register of the westernmost strip is entirely filled with figures who are standing or sitting in boats. These are the decans, 36 stars or star groups near the ecliptic whose rise or transit could be used to tell the time during the night. Eventually they were also used by astronomers as place-markers in the sky to divide up the Ecliptic in equal portions. Decans first appear during the Middle Kingdom on the inside of coffin lids, providing the deceased with his own private start clock. Unfortunately, during the subsequent centuries many different lists of decanal stars were developed and very few of these stars can be identified on a modern star map. The decans in this register were listed by Neugebauer and Parker as stars 1 till 17 and 36 of the Tanis decan family. Stars 18 till 35 can be found on the easternmost ceiling strip.(see picture 29526). This part of the Dendera Temple was built during the Roman period (first century AD). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
A curious collision Of particles and dust From a dying planet, Adorning our night sky. Viewed through the Hubble Telescope, Its wings span several light years, And it burns at 250,000 degrees Centi…
BrainPickings recently highlighted the first kiss in cinema history. That takes you back to 1896, to a film brought to you by Thomas Edison. Now we rewind the videotape and present the first same-sex kiss in film history (or at least one of the earliest known ones).
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Spring's bringing more than higher temps and cherry blossoms to the East Coast this year, as hordes of 17-year cicadas get set to head above ground from the Carolinas all the way up to New York next month.But while the bug-phobic might not be too excited about the upcoming invasion of billions of these red-eyed little monsters, creative people have found plenty of ways to celebrate cicadas. Check
The monumental Cemetery of Staglieno is set in one of the eastern districts of Genoa. Designed in the early XIX century by one of the most appreciated city's architects, Carlo Barabino, it features hundreds of striking marble sculptures and monuments to the personalities buried here.
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Royal Society Publishing photography competition 2015 Overall winner Winner: Ecology and Environmental Science Tadpoles of many anuran species come in high numbers, but not many make it to adulthood. Here a group of common toad (Bufo bufo) tadpoles is seen from below. The picture was taken with a canon G12 camera in a Recsea underwater housing and a Dyron dome port. No flash was used, only natural light. Post-processing, the picture was cropped to the 3:2 format, and changes were made on the levels, contrast and highlight and the saturation. Bert Willaert, Belgium.
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I spend days travelling through the Mountains on the Philippine islands looking for this eagle, and in the end I photographed it at a rescue sanctuary. The Philippine Eagle has one of the largest wing spans of any eagle, at 2 metres, and is only found on the Philippine islands, where it is the national bird. IUCN: Critically Endangered
Winged feminine figure. Bronze by sculptor Adolfo Apolloni 1904. Burial monument of the Calcagno family at the Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy. Copyright © 2008 Carlo Natale. All Rights Reserved You can see my most interesting photo's on flickr here
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Princess Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria of Wales is born November 26th 1869, to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra). She is…
