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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

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Antwerp Diamond Heist of 2003

Dubbed “the heist of the century,” the Antwerp Diamon Heist remains unsolved to this day. The heist involved the taking of loose diamonds, gold, and other jewelry valued at more than $100 million. It is considered the largest diamond heist in history.

It was housed in a vault considered to be one of the safest vaults in the world which had numerous secturity mechanisms.

Lock with over 100 million combinations

Infared heat detectors

A seismic sensor

Doppler radar

The diamond center itself had a security force

A man named Leonardo Notarbartolo (man suspected of doing this) had rented a sparsely furnished office for approximately $700 per month in the diamond centre three years prior to the robbery which gave him 24hr access to the vault. He posed as an Italian diamond merchant in order to gain creditbility.

After the robbery Leonardo and his crew stole the security footage so no one really knows how they pulled this off or who the rest of Leonardo’s team was. 123/160 safety deposit boxes (which were made of steel and copper and had both a key and combination lock) were forced open. This is what the diamon center’s vault looked like after the robbery.

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James Caan taking a break after his death scene in The Godfather

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Jellyfish Sprite

Red sprites or the tentacle-like spurts of red lightning in the sky during a storm are sometimes referred to as Jellyfish Sprite (because of their shape). There are also some that are vertical columns of red light and those are called carrot sprites.

They are ultra fast electricity traveling through the atmosphere towards space and are extremely rare (they last a tenth of a second). They can also be seen from space.

The picture above was captured on Mt. Locke in Texas (July 2nd, 2020) by Stephen Hummel.

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Twin Peaks: Pilot (1990) dir. David Lynch