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I had fun making these

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The Pleiades

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THE GODFATHER PART I & II + 🍊 1972 & 1974, dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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Roof access, Matt Schu

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Susan Kare: “The Amtrak USA route system, interpreted in pixels for “The National” magazine in 2018.”

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2024 October 12

Northern Lights, West Virginia Image Credit & Copyright: Jonathan Eggleston

Explanation: A gravel country lane gently winds through this colorful rural night skyscape. Captured from Monroe County in southern West Virginia on the evening of October 10, the starry sky above is a familiar sight. Shimmering curtains of aurora borealis or northern lights definitely do not make regular appearances here, though. Surprisingly vivid auroral displays were present on that night at very low latitudes around the globe, far from their usual northern and southern high latitude realms. The extensive auroral activity was evidence of a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME), an immense magnetized cloud of energetic plasma. The CME was launched toward Earth from the active Sun following a powerful X-class solar flare.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241012.html

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DETECTIVE RUST COHLE, from TRUE DETECTIVE 1.02 “Seeing Things”

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1920s Columbus Circle, Manhattan.

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Birthday remembrance - Richard Castellano #botd

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Apache Devil Dancer by John S. Candelario, 1939.

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The Nameless Thing of Berkley Square is a creature that reportedly lives in the haunted townhouse on 50 Berkley Square in Mayfair, Central London. Some say that the building is the most haunted in London. The Nameless Thing has been described as a “mutant cephalopod” and as semi-aquatic. The first known account of the creature was from the 1840s in a report involving Sir Robert Warboys. The 20 year old had first believed the creature’s legend to be “unadulterated poppycock”. However, his friends, during a night of drinking, challenged him to spend a night in the haunted 2nd floor room of the building. The landlord of the building reluctantly allowed him to stay in the room. Warboys was armed with a pistol and had a cord nearby that triggered a bell in the landlord’s room. 45 minutes after the clock struck midnight, a shot rang out in the room as Warboys fired his pistol. The landlord heard the shot and ran into the room only to find Warboys, dead and holding the pistol that had fired. The landlord “noted that Warboys’ lips were peeled back from his clenched teeth in a grimace of horror and eyes seemed to be literally bulging from his skull”. He could only assume that the man had a run-in with the Nameless Thing of Berkley Square.

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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults. THE GODFATHER (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo

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Ancient Holy Saturday homily