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🇮🇩 Klaten (ꦏ꧀ꦭꦛꦺꦤ꧀) - Java, Indonesia 
Klaten — where the charm of Central Java comes alive.
From serene rice fields to the mystical beauty of Candi Prambanan, this hidden gem is the perfect blend of history, culture, and nature.
#java #klaten #indonesia #pulaujawa
#budayajawa #jowopride #javanese
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Carved shell and engraved gilt sewing kit lined with blue silk.
Made in Paris, c. 1815-1820
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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The pools were created about 2000 years ago, the water comes from the local thermal springs.
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Your Underground Survival Shelter Could Be a Death Trap.
In theory, a doomsday bunker offers the ultimate form of security: a hidden, fortified refuge from the chaos of WWIII or some other doomsday event. But in practice, your underground survival shelter could turn into a coffin.
Most people imagine survival shelters as ironclad solutions to nuclear war, civil unrest, or some other catastrophe. They conjure images of high-tech bunkers with filtered air, shelves lined with supplies, and thick doors shielding them from danger. What they don’t imagine is the gas leak, the blocked air vent, the rising groundwater, or the crushing weight of soil collapsing inward. Yet those are far more likely outcomes than what you see in the movies.
This false sense of security isn’t new. In 1961, as Cold War tensions peaked, Business Week posed the question on many Americans’ minds: “To dig or not to dig?” Fallout shelters were everywhere. They were promoted in Good Housekeeping, debated in the Yale Review, and obsessed over at PTA meetings and office watercoolers. President Kennedy encouraged citizens to prepare, while families stockpiled supplies in basements and backyard bunkers.
Today, we’ve traded the term “fallout shelter” for “doomsday bunker,” but the psychology remains the same: fear meets fantasy. And as fears of nuclear escalation, civil unrest, pandemics, and extreme weather rise, so does interest in underground shelters.
But here’s the truth no one likes to say out loud: most survival bunkers, especially DIY or budget-friendly ones, aren’t safe. Oftentimes, they’re death traps waiting for a trigger. Before you dig, read on.
The Illusion of Safety: What Survival Bunkers Seem to Offer
Bunkers are often romanticized in prepper circles. They offer a vision of ultimate control: stocked shelves, reinforced walls, and a quiet space to wait out the apocalypse. On paper, the benefits sound compelling, but only if you overlook the fine print. Here’s a breakdown of the most commonly cited “pros” of survival shelters and the hidden caveats behind them.
Quick Access, If You’re Lucky
Building a shelter on your property seems smart: no travel, no traffic, just a few steps to safety. But that assumes you’ll be home when disaster strikes. If you’re at work, school, or on the road, that $50,000 hole in your backyard might as well be on another planet.
Protection from Storms, But Only Certain Ones
Underground structures can offer some shielding from hurricanes and tornadoes. But storm debris can block exits, saturate air vents, or cause flooding if the shelter isn’t perfectly sealed and elevated. It’s not enough to be underground. It needs to be airtight, watertight, and structurally reinforced.
Fire Resistance, Up to a Point
A properly built bunker can offer refuge from fast-moving wildfires, but “properly built” is key. Most DIY shelters aren’t designed to withstand the superheated air and radiant heat of a serious firestorm. An underground space without ventilation or insulation from heat can quickly become a low-oxygen oven.
Privacy, Until It Works Against You
Avoiding panicked crowds sounds ideal until you realize that help won’t find you either. If you’re injured, sick, or in need of rescue, your isolated bunker can become a sealed tomb. Public shelters may be uncomfortable, but they’re also monitored, supplied, and connected.
Storage, But With Stability Risks
Yes, a bunker is a great place to store supplies… until moisture, mold, pests, or poor insulation compromise them. And if your shelter becomes inaccessible due to flooding or a structural failure, all those stockpiles are suddenly out of reach.
Peace of Mind, Or False Confidence?
Perhaps the biggest benefit of a bunker is psychological: the feeling of control in a chaotic world. But that confidence can backfire. A flawed shelter gives the illusion of safety, and that illusion could lead to catastrophic decisions when real danger comes.
The Hidden Dangers: Why Your Bunker Might Kill You
When most people imagine underground survival, they picture a safe, silent refuge. But reality is messier . Here's why your underground shelter could turn against you when it matters most.
Air Tubes: A Dead Giveaway and a Silent Killer
Most bunkers rely on air intakes or snorkels for ventilation. But these are easy to spot, easy to sabotage, and tragically easy to block. A little mud or a simple rag could suffocate everyone inside. Worse, a hostile actor could pour gas or smoke down the tube, turning your safe space into a gas chamber.
Flooding: You’re Only as Safe as Your Elevation
If your bunker sits below the water table, near a floodplain, or in a region with heavy rainfall, you’re asking for trouble. Water infiltration is hard to prevent and even harder to stop once it starts. The result? A slow drowning or a total collapse.
Fire: Heat Rises, and So Does Risk
Fire underground is a nightmare scenario. It eats oxygen, produces toxic gases, and can compromise steel reinforcements. Worse, putting it out often means using up your precious air supply. DIY bunkers packed with flammable materials and limited ventilation are particularly vulnerable.
Structural Collapse: Don’t Trust That Shipping Container
Throwing a shipping container in a hole and covering it with dirt isn’t just dangerous, it’s potentially lethal. Without proper reinforcement and engineering, underground shelters can buckle under the weight of soil and moisture, trapping or crushing occupants.
Waste and Sanitation: The Biological Bomb
Human waste, garbage, and food scraps are rarely planned for adequately. Sealed underground, they breed bacteria, generate toxic gases, and attract pests. Poor sanitation isn’t just gross, it can lead to disease, infection, and death.
Corrosion and Decay: Rot from Within
Steel rusts. Wood rots. Concrete cracks. If your shelter isn’t professionally sealed and maintained, nature will reclaim it and weaken its integrity in the process. And in a disaster, you won’t have time for emergency repairs.
No Real Defense: You're a Sitting Duck
If someone finds your bunker by spotting your air vent, following your supply chain, or noticing unusual property behavior, you’re trapped. Unlike a house or above-ground retreat, you can’t see who’s coming, and you can’t fight your way out without revealing yourself.
Mental Collapse: The Enemy Inside Your Head
Claustrophobia, darkness, isolation, boredom… These aren’t minor inconveniences. They can trigger anxiety, hallucinations, panic attacks, and depression. Confined with others, tensions rise fast. Without sunlight or stimulation, your circadian rhythm and mental health begin to unravel. People underestimate this, until it's too late.
No Second Chance: One Mistake = No Escape
Most bunkers have a single entry point. Some have a second, but rarely is it well-hidden or secure. If something goes wrong, like a cave-in, intruder, fire, or gas leak, there may be no way out. Your safe space becomes a trapdoor.
The Bottom Line: A Bunker Can Save You, or Bury You
Building a survival bunker might seem like the ultimate prepper achievement. But without serious planning, professional engineering, and a hefty budget, your underground shelter could turn into a death trap. Literally.
Yes, bunkers offer protection from some threats. But they introduce new ones that are just as deadly: toxic air, structural collapse, fire, flooding, and psychological breakdown. These aren’t rare failures. They’re common outcomes in amateur or budget builds.
If you’re going to invest in a shelter, treat it like a life support system, not a glorified root cellar. That means:
Building above flood zones and fault lines.
Installing professional-grade air filtration and ventilation.
Reinforcing against collapse with real engineering, not guesswork.
Planning for waste, power, water, fire, and mental survival.
Accepting that just being underground is not enough.
And if you can’t do all that? Then your money and time may be better spent on other forms of preparedness: a mobile bug out plan, a well-defended homestead, a community support network, or a reinforced above-ground storm shelter with multiple exit options.
Because in a real crisis, the worst mistake you can make is believing you’re safe when you’re not.
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Happy Book Lovers Day!
Book Lovers Day is celebrated on August 9 every year.
This is an unofficial holiday observed to encourage bibliophiles to celebrate reading and literature.
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
~Henry David Thoreau
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The ancient Roman pools of Gafsa, Tunisia, are a well-preserved example of Roman engineering and a testament to their advanced understanding of water management.
Located in the city of Gafsa, these pools were constructed around the 2nd century BC and were likely used for both leisure and therapeutic purposes due to the region's natural thermal springs.
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Nizwa Fort, Oman.
Nizwa Fort:
The Fort of Nizwa is definitely one of the most remarkable sights of the small town. The tower of the fort can be seen from afar.
With a diameter of 45 meters and a height of 35 meters, it is not only the largest structure of the oasis of Nizwa, which it far surpasses, but it is also the mightiest tower in all of Oman.
Similar to other castle and fortifications in the area, this tower was built under Sultan bin Saif bin Malik al-Ya´aruba in the mid-17th century. The construction of this impressive fortification took around twelve years.
The residential complexes of the fort are significantly older and date back to the 9th century.
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“I hated Hemingway at first, then I came to love him. He wrote like he was on fire, like a man who didn’t have time to lie.”
— Charles Bukowski Author
Dirty realism meets brutal honesty.
Bukowski, poet, novelist, and patron saint of dive bars and broken typewriters, was known for his raw, confessional style. He wrote about the underbelly of American life: booze, loneliness, dead-end jobs, and the bruised poetry of everyday survival. While he first resisted Hemingway’s terse, controlled prose, he eventually recognized its brilliance.
In this quote, Bukowski salutes Hemingway’s urgency, his ability to write with stripped-down power, without pretense or polish.
It’s a grudging respect from one literary outlaw to another.
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Collection of Art Nouveau round windows from Brussels, Belgium.
(BRUSSELS ART NOUVEAU : arched and round windows Ixelles, rue Defacqz, Hôtel Ciamberlani (Paul Hankar)
Schaerbeek, av. Sleeckx (Frans Hemelsoet)
Brussels, sq. Ambiorix, Saint-Cyr House (Gustave Strauven)
Forest, av. Molière (J. Dosveld)
Forest, av. Mont Kemmel, Villa Beau-Site (Arthur Nelissen)
Saint-Gilles, chée Waterloo (Jean-Pierre Van Oostveen)
Ixelles, rue du Lac (Ernest Delune)
Brussels, av. F. Roosevelt, Delune House (Léon Delune)
Forest, av. Albert (J. Dosveld)
Ixelles, rue Africaine (Benjamin De Lestre)
Forest, av. Besme (Alphonse Boelens)
Schaerbeek, av. Huart Hamoir
(Information and photos of Thierry Bernard )
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A historical house in the heart of Isfahan, Iran, dating back to the Safavid Empire (1501–1736), now serving as a traditional Persian restaurant.
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Vigoleno Castle is located in the medieval Italian town of Vigoleno, on a hill some 500 meters above the sea level on the border between the provinces of Piacenza and Parma.
The structure dates back to the 10th century, although the first documented evidence of its existence is from the first half of 12th century. The castle is protected by 2 walls, one medieval and the other one built during the Renaissance period.
There are different portcullis, embrasures, Ghibelline battlements and traces of a draw-bridge as well. The castello almost continuously belonged to the Scotti family from the late 1300s to the early 1900, when it was sold. It is now a hotel.
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Stained glass window dedicated to the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, located in the church of Angoville-au-Plain in Manche, Normandy,
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Can you believe next year those will be 50 years old?
Rock on !
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Born on 9th August 1963, in what was then a middle-income neighbourhood in Newark, New Jersey, Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer, actress, producer, and model.
In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all-time. Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide.
She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American women artists who followed in her footsteps.
Houston spent some of her teenage years touring nightclubs where her mother Cissy was performing, and she would occasionally get on stage and perform with her. In 1977, at age 14, she became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band's single "Life's a Party". In 1978, at age 15, Houston sang background vocals for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls.
In the early 1980s, Houston started working as a fashion model after a photographer saw her at Carnegie Hall singing with her mother. She appeared in “Seventeen” and became one of the first women of colour to grace the cover of the magazine. She was also featured in layouts in the pages of Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Young Miss, and appeared in a Canada Dry soft drink TV commercial. Her looks and girl-next-door charm made her one of the most sought after teen models of that time.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No.1 Billboard Hot 100 songs. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two No.1 Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Albums") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston's self-titled debut album (1985) became the best-selling debut album by a woman in history. Rolling Stone named it the best album of 1986, and ranked it at number 254 on the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album, “Whitney” (1987), became the first album by a woman to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Houston made her screen acting debut as Rachel Marron in the romantic thriller film “The Bodyguard” (1992). She performed the lead single from the film's original soundtrack, "I Will Always Love You", which received the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. The album makes her the top female act in the top 10 list of the best-selling albums of all time, at No.4. Houston made other high-profile film appearances and contributed to their soundtracks, including Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996). The latter's soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history.
On 11th February, 2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California. The official coroner's report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and featured prominently in American and international media.
Houston was buried on 19th February, 2012, in Fairview Cemetery, in Westfield, New Jersey, next to her father, John Russell Houston, who died in 2003. In June 2012, the McDonald's Gospelfest in Newark became a tribute to Houston.
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“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen,
"Selected Poems, 1956-1968"
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The Hollywood Pantages Theatre, formerly known as the RKO Pantages Theatre, is located at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine Streets in Hollywood.
The building, designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca, was the last theater built by vaudeville impresario Alexander Pantages.
Opened: June 4, 1930
Architect: B. Marcus Priteca.
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Glen Martin Taylor ( Ceramic Sculptor )
Formerly a carpenter, Glen is a ceramic artist whose artworks incorporate destruction into the making process. Based in Ohio, Glen uses the Japanese artform of kintsugi to repair hand-made pottery and fine china which he himself breaks in catharsis.
The classically beautiful gold, however, is exchanged for the abject - rusting metal, nails, scissors, barbed wire, or blackened soldering alloy. Through the delicate art of repairing broken pieces to rediscover their wholeness, Glen bravely demonstrates how the intimate process of healing one’s trauma is seldom pretty.
One of the first things I’d like to mention is the fearless vulnerability inherent in your work. Has vulnerability always been so central to your practice?
Vulnerability has entered my work in the last seven years. There were events in my life that brought about an urgency to be raw and honest, not only with myself but with my work.
It’s well-known that men can often find it difficult to express vulnerability, yet when you speak of your life and work, you seem to navigate with so much ease and honesty. Have your emotions always felt so accessible?
It’s not easy, but I’ve learned to access that flow of deep emotion when I’m working. My emotions have always been part of my inner life, but now I’m spilling it onto my work. And when I started doing that, I felt that I was finally the artist, and person, I should have been all along.
Your ceramic artworks deal with trauma, breakage, and finding a new wholeness through healing. Do you see their breakage as destruction or reinvention?
It feels like I’m opening my wounds to find the healing and all the meaning in the suffering.
A core part of your practice is kintsugi, yet instead of joining with gold you use soldering metal. What led you to choose to use a different joining material to the conventional?
The gold in kintsugi is very beautiful, but for me, healing is never pretty, it’s imperfect and often ugly and messy.
Some of my first impressions of your objects are how true they stay to the effect of time on an object. A lot of regency pottery - and traditional Japanese kintsugi - tends to be maintained or restored to a pristine condition, resisting the process of weathering. Your work tends to not only celebrate its breakage, but can also highlight an object’s rusting and decay. What relationship do you have to the effect of time?
My life, my time, my past, are very present when I’m working. I’m healing a lot of old wounds right now, and that requires time travel, in my memory and in my heart.
If kintsugi is a method of working with and celebrating an object’s history, your artworks show that process to be a perilous yet worthwhile undertaking. When I see your works, I see objects that proudly display the scars they’ve acquired, despite conventionally ugliness.
Why do you think your work brings this reaction out in others?
My work started as my own therapy. I had to learn to embrace, even love the scars that this life leaves on our souls. I shared my work as a way of screaming that I was a survivor, that I was still here. When others respond to my work, it completes a circle of healing in me, to know that I’m not alone, but that I’m experiencing a very common and human process. Unintended, but [it’s] such a profound epiphany.
I’ve heard you talk about the dilemma of being a human being. Could you elaborate on this?
This relates to some of the personal bridges I’ve had to cross during the darkest times, the dilemma of remaining here, of continuing being a person. It’s very hard to be human sometimes.
I notice dichotomies at play in the end-products of your artistic expression - daintiness and roughness, labour and leisure, love and pain, etc. How do you grapple with conflicting ideas during the creative process?
Life is full of stark contrast, I’m alive and my friend dies, life is so richly beautiful and full of war and horror. It’s so fucking serious and all I can do is laugh somedays. Love hurts. I’m just trying to make sense of it, finding some grace within the chaos.
Is there an element of psychodrama to your work? Regarding my grandmother’s china (2022) for example, a teacup half-constructed from barbed wire leads me to imagine an aggressive domestic conversation occurring over afternoon tea. Do your artworks express specific moments of domestic friction?
Dinner time growing up was the hardest part of my day. My mother’s mental fragility and my father’s religious anger made those plates and silverware at the table, objects of great emotion for me.
I get similar feelings from much of your work actually. Instead of trying to internalise a traumatic episode and move on, your artworks crystallise moments where hate and love are at odds, leaving pain in their wake. Can it be a painful process for you to create these objects?
Yes. I have to go there and sit with some hard shit. But that’s the only way for the work to be authentic. And it’s therapy, I’m not going to work through anything unless I touch bottom.
Just as pain can be a necessary catalyst to healing, breakage is an integral part of kintsugi. Does your approach to an object change depending on how it is damaged?
I love the randomness of the breakage. Randomness seems like such an essential element to our journeys and all the trauma and pain.
Pretty healing, a piece of yours from 2019, caught my eye whilst scrolling through your website. The contrast of the text on the plate and the piece’s title struck a chord with me. So often does modern society attempt to sell you prettier ways to heal than its reality - wading through thick mental mud. Are there any artworks you’ve created which were responding to specific parts of your life or wider society?
Healing and self growth are hard, really hard, if anyone tells you different, they are selling you some bullshit. Almost all my pieces express specific moments in my life. My work is very autobiographical and personal. Currently I am working on a project about the war in Ukraine, but even that is coming from some very real and personal experiences and relationships.
If each one of your pieces represents a wholeness that comes with accepting time, work, and brokenness, does your practice inform the way you live your life broadly?
When I’m not working, I’m very present, in each moment of the day. Accepting and learning to love the scars and the journey continues to give me a sense of some kind of asymmetrical wholeness. And then I work some more.
Do you have any upcoming exhibitions or projects that we can direct our readership toward?
I will be exhibiting in Paris later this year and a show in North Carolina this summer. The details are still being worked out but I will be sharing them on my Instagram, @glenmartintaylor.
I have been and will be working on a project very close to my heart about the war in Ukraine called Broken To Be Restored which involves a brave Ukrainian in the war zones collecting broken pottery from destroyed homes and schools and sending them to my studio for me to quote unquote mend and create art about the ongoing tragedy of the war.
The eventual goal of the project is to exhibit the work in the U.S. and Europe to raise awareness and eventually to exhibit in Kiev for a charity auction to raise relief funds.
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Japanese Artist Takanori Aiba Creates Entire Miniature Kingdoms Around Bonsai Trees.
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Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist, who produces sculptures integrated into specific urban or natural sites.
He is one of the premier artists in Land art and uses natural or reclaimed objects to create ephemeral or permanent sculptures that bring out the character of their environment.
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The stoics have a phrase 'Memento Mori ', and I quite often consider this. Pondering our own eventual demise, in my opinion, is a positive thing. It can focus us on 'real' priorities in life. As for myself, I hope to meet the end having lived a full life, and meet it with true acceptance. Have an awesome day 🧡
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เตรียมตัวให้พร้อม! กับงานวัฒนธรรมระดับนานาชาติที่ทุกสายตาต้องจับจ้อง
"Thailand Internationl Mask Carnival & ASEAN Day Celebration"
ไฮไลต์ห้ามพลาด!
🌏 พบการแสดงหน้ากากนานาชาติจาก 7 ประเทศ
จีน อินเดีย อินโดนีเซีย สาธารณรัฐเกาหลี มาเลเซีย ฟิลิปปินส์ และไทย
🎭 การจัดนิทรรศการ “ต่าง คล้าย ใช่เลย หน้ากากอาเซียน +3”
🖌️ การสาธิตการทำหัวโขนจากสำนักช่างสิบหมู่ กรมศิลปากร และ
🎨 Workshop การประดิษฐ์หน้ากาก
🗓️ 8 – 9 สิงหาคม 2568
⏰ เริ่มกิจกรรมตั้งแต่เวลา 14.00 น. เป็นต้นไป (การแสดงหน้ากากเริ่มเวลา 15.30 น.)
📍 Living Hall, ชั้น 3, สยามพารากอน
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Get Ready for an International Cultural Spectacle!
"Thailand International Mask Carnival & ASEAN Day Celebration"
Don’t miss these highlights:
🌏 International Mask Performances from 7 Countries: Featuring China, India, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
🎭 Exhibition: "So Different so Similar we are ASEAN the Masks of ASEAN+3 Countries "
🖌️ Khon Mask Making Demonstration: By the Office of Traditional Arts, Fine Arts Department.
🎨 Mask Making Workshop
🗓️ 8–9 August 2025
⏰ Starts at 14:00 hrs. (Mask performances begin at 15:30 hrs.)
📍 Living Hall, 3rd Floor, Siam Paragon
🏷️ Free admission – all are welcome to join!
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Celebrating Dustin Lee Hoffman’s 88th birthday, born on August 8, 1937. He s an American actor.
As one of the key actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He made his film debut with the black comedy
The Tiger Makes Out (1967). He went on to receive two Academy Awards for Best Actor playing a man going through a divorce in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and an autistic savant in Rain Man (1988). He was Oscar-nominated for The Graduate (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Lenny (1974), Tootsie (1982), and Wag the Dog (1997). Other notable roles include in Little Big Man (1970), Papillon (1973), Marathon Man (1976), All the President's Men (1976), Ishtar (1987), Dick Tracy (1990), and Hook (1991). In the 21st century, he acted in films such Finding Neverland (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Stranger than Fiction (2006), as well as Meet the Fockers (2004) and the sequel Little Fockers (2010), The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and Megalopolis (2024).
Hoffman has voiced roles in The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and the Kung Fu Panda film series (2008–2024).
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Diving In The Philippines & S.E. Asia./World
Post #179- Tribird planewreck.
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Great viz this morning at the Tribird planewreck, and a bonus shoal of Batfish. Great dive 🤿
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🤿 "Something wicked this way comes"
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The Diamond Room of Tehran’s Marble Palace is a breathtaking example of Ayineh Kari—the traditional Persian mirror mosaic technique. Walls and ceilings are covered in thousands of hand-cut silvered mirrors, arranged in precise geometric patterns that scatter light in every direction. The result is a radiant, dreamlike space that feels both intimate and infinite.
This art form reached its peak during the Safavid and Qajar dynasties and wasn’t just meant to impress—it symbolized divine light and heavenly beauty. Originally built as a royal residence, the Marble Palace now stands as a museum, preserving this stunning legacy of Persian craftsmanship.
Every mirrored shard glows like a jewel, turning the room into a shining tribute to centuries of artistic mastery.
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The Mexican honey wasp (Brachygastra mellifica) is unique among wasps because it produces and stores honey, similar to honeybees, though the nests are constructed from paper and the honey is housed in wax compartments within.
These wasps build large nests in the canopies of trees and shrubs, ranging from 1 to 9 meters above the ground. They are native to southeastern Arizona, the southernmost counties of Texas, Mexico, and Central America.
Their diet consists of various arthropods like beetles, caterpillars, aphids, and various larvae, playing a valuable role in regulating insect populations on the Mesoamerican People milpa system.
These unique wasps, were crucial pollinators of avocado trees. Their hairy bodies facilitate pollen collection and transfer as they forage for nectar, contributing to the pollination of a variety of plants, both wild and cultivated.
These wasps coexistence polinators, including native bees (such as the stingless Melipona bee, also known as Xunan Ka'ab). butterflies, moths, and others.
The harvesting of wasp nests is tied to traditional knowledge about the lunar cycle; the Popoluca, for example, harvest when the moon is between its last quarter and waning gibbous, as nests are believed to be full of honey and| larvae at this time.
Honey and larvae has been adelicacy and food source for various Mesoamerican peoples for generations, particularly for groups like the Popoluca in Mexico and Maya in Guatemala.
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Singapore Dreaming. ✨
Photographer: @constantinamoi
#archidesiign #architecture #design #travel #photography #asia #singapore
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Erawan Museum,
Bangkok, Thailand.
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Released on this day 7th August 1983, "𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧" the eleventh studio album by Black Sabbath.
"𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡", "𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨", "𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝".
Track listing
Side A
1. "Trashed"
2. "Stonehenge" (Instrumental)
3. "Disturbing the Priest"
4. "The Dark" (Instrumental)
5. "Zero the Hero"
Side B
6. "Digital Bitch"
7. "Born Again"
8. "Hot Line"
9. "Keep It Warm"
Personnel
Ian Gillan – vocals
Tony Iommi – guitars, guitar effects, flute
Geezer Butler – bass, bass effects
Bill Ward – drums, percussion
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The real Rapunzel Tower in the English King Alfred's Tower is 49 meters high.
Built between 1762 and 1779, it was designed by architect Henry Flitcroft who used more than a million red bricks. It is believed to mark the place where King Alfred the Great gathered his troops in 878.
The tower commemorates George III's accession to the throne in 1760 and the end of the Seven Years' War.
Read more: https://news156media.com/king-alfreds-tower-the-real-rapunzel-tower-of-england/
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Sultan Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Former office of British colonial administration.
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1926 Panhard Lame de Rasoir ( razor blade) 10 CV, a speed record car powered by a 1.5 liter 4-cylinder 70hp 65x107 1500cc engine, 2325mm wheelbase, 450mm wide and a track of 1200mm bodied in polished aluminium sheeting.
The 1926 Panhard Razor Blade—affectionately dubbed the “Lame de Rasoir”—stands as a striking chapter in automotive lore. Crafted by the visionary French automaker Panhard, this machine wasn’t built merely to traverse roads; it was engineered to shatter speed records.
Its body, a masterful blend of polished aluminum and steel, hugged the contours of aerodynamic efficiency in a way that was nothing short of revolutionary for its era. Under the hood, a 1500cc engine powered this record-breaker to heights that once existed only in dreams.
It was an extraordinarily sharp design in more ways than one. The driving position was highly unconventional, with the driver more reclined than seated in this single-seater.
His head rested on a small cushion, and much of his forward view was obstructed by the bodywork—so looking ahead must have involved occasionally leaning to the side. The steering wheel was another notable feature: large and spokeless, it encircled the driver at mid-torso.
Notably, the car’s suspension remains a subject of some uncertainty among historians. What is (somewhat) better established is that the car had no brakes on its wheels—this was an intentional omission, aimed at reducing aerodynamic drag and overall weight. A single drum brake is believed to have been mounted on the transmission, and only there.
Two versions of the Razor Blade were born, each meticulously designed for distinct racing classes. Beyond its raw speed, what truly set this car apart was its innovative engineering; the design itself was a calculated assault on air resistance.
The car’s striking bodywork—crafted from polished aluminium and mahogany—was designed by engineers Louis Bionier and Marius Breton. It was tailored specifically for Breton, who also served as its works driver. He achieved a fastest lap speed of 190.324 km/h at Montlhéry, although this was with the slightly less sensational two-litre variant—not the distinctive 1.5-litre Razor Blade model.
The latter was reportedly designed to break the 240 km/h barrier, though it fell just short. Official timing recorded it averaging 223 km/h over five miles in October 1926.
Tragically, just days later, Breton crashed at high speed at Brooklands, the legendary racing circuit in England—a stark reminder of the perilous nature of pushing boundaries, and was killed instantly, aged 34.
The road in Issy-les-Moulineaux where the accident occurred still bears his name. Yet, the surviving model carried on, etching its legacy further into the annals of motor racing.
Today, the Razor Blade’s story serves as a powerful testament to the pioneering spirit of early 20th-century automotive engineering. It showcased the potential unleashed when lightweight materials and potent powertrains converged, a formula that not only broke records but also solidified Panhard’s reputation as an innovator.
In its sleek lines and daring performances, the Razor Blade continues to inspire, embodying the relentless pursuit of speed and excellence that has propelled the automotive world forward for over a century.
Sources: panhard-racing-team.fr ; theautobuilder.com ; classicdriver.com ; prewarcar.com.
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Celebrating Charlize Theron’s 50th birthday, born on August 7, 1975.
She is a South African and American actress and producer. She came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999).
She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an acting Oscar.
She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005). She has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), and The Old Guard (2020), as well as several Fast & Furious installments: The Fate of the Furious (2017), F9 (2021), and Fast X (2023). She received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018), and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019) she received her third Academy Award nomination.
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On August 6, 1945, the United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.
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Pubs are fertile ground for tall tales, with many claiming to be the oldest in England. But does the evidence support them?
Reputedly the ‘oldest public house in England’, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, is an interesting building, but not quite as ancient as claimed.
Supposedly dating back to 793, this year was first mentioned on an early-20th-century postcard and is not based on historic records.
Instead, the building started as a dovecote, dated around 1400, originally standing at the nearby monastery.
The entire timber frame was later reassembled as a house on the present site around 1600. It was known as the Three Pigeons in 1756 and was finally serving beer as the Fighting Cocks by 1807.
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Welcome to Tjørnuvík — a hidden gem in the Faroe Islands.
Tucked away on the island of Streymoy, this charming coastal village is surrounded by towering mountains and the mighty Atlantic Ocean, creating a view that will truly take your breath away.
Black sand beaches, rare in these parts, set the perfect scene to admire the iconic sea stacks Risin and Kellingin, which, according to legend, are a giant and his wife turned to stone by magic.
With colorful, traditional houses, Tjørnuvík feels like a step back in time — peaceful, serene, and far from the noise of modern life.
Into surfing? The cold, challenging waves here are a thrill for adventurers.
Love hiking? Explore trails that wind through the mountains and along the coast, offering jaw-dropping views of this Nordic paradise.
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Proof of walk this afternoon at the beaches of White Sands and Bulabog.
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