#Andres Marin

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The Great Court at the British Museum Reading Room

The new central courtyard at the British Museum opened one of the world finest museums to itself. A park once occupied the central part of the museum but it quickly became a storage area for the reading room. In 2000, Foster & Partners designed an elegant, glazed canopy with state-of-the-art engineering. The Great Court now serves as an exhibition that has opened the courtyard to everyone who visits.

Photographer: @_amphoto / Andres Marin

[miketownsends]

A beautiful day at the ballpark 😍

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[prissybabyhamlet]

instead of talking abt the game let’s talk abt how moony is friend shaped and i love him 🌝

[rl9forever]

The youngest Barça player to reach 100 matches, Pablo Gavira 💙❤

[madddddy]

Thought I’d give my take on this:

[kitsuneharmony]

Here's a bunch of old art from various anime/games I got into over the past few years

[damienarthaud]

#lecouloir #❤️ #andre #salomon #sainttropez #marine #original #46x65 #ancienne #huile #auxcouteaux #toile #andresalomon #port #bateaux #decoration #decor #deco #art #artist #peinture #france #damienarthaud #5 #rueaugustecomte #lyon #@quartieraugustecomte (à Le Couloir Damien Arthaud) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnMBL7rIb9e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[in-the-mists]

andres muñoz you deserve the world!!!

[miketownsends]

Appointment viewing 📺

[mercuriallworld]

[theredandwhitequeen]

The Mariners won their first game of the season, 1-0. JP Crawford hit a solo home run, and had very good defense as well. George Kirby pitched an amazing game and went 6 2/3rd innings and had 98 pitches. He is so good. Andres Munoz got the save. A very happy night. Yay.

[hollywoodcatfish]

Catfish: Renee Vivas/Jade Renee

Name(s): Renee J Vivas, Renee Jade, Jade Renee

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Renee Vivas (Jade Renee) is a relatively newer persona, having first publicly emerged in 2018. She is presented as a translator and interpreter for the Tokyo Disney Resort. Her background is that she is the daughter of stuntman Rey-Phillip Santos and a former United States Marine who attended Gonzaga University, currently residing in Japan. According to her posts, she was arrested. It is unclear what her purported age is. The Vivas profile has been utilized for excessive disruption, including smear campaigns.

A behind-the-scenes still image from the 2012 short film "Private War". This was cannibalized as being representative of the Vivas persona serving in the United States Marine Corps.

The source material for Vivas has almost comprehensively been stolen from the professional and personal materials of 36-year-old American actor Jessica Jade Andres. The photos depicting Vivas' history with the United States Marine Corps are production stills from a short film called Private War, released in 2012. The photograph depicting Vivas' arrest is a cropped group picture, featuring Andres and her friends. Many of Vivas' mundane activities, such as from Zoom calls, are Andres' audition tapes.

The victim uploaded an audition tape for the role of Rachel in "Flying Cars", in 2016.

The perpetrator cut out a portion of Andres' audition tape, removed the audio, changed the frame rate, and adjusted the lighting, before uploading it with the context of it being a Zoom call.

[blueiscoool]

Gigantic Skull of Prehistoric Sea Monster Found on England’s ‘Jurassic Coast’

The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.

Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur find. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.

Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary “Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster,” presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.

Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset’s “Jurassic Coast,” is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) long. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.

The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, said in a video call.

Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.

Etches first learned of the fossil’s existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaur’s snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were “quite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete,” Etches said.

After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaur’s precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.

“It’s a miracle we got it out,” he said, “because we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m.”

Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found “very disillusioning” as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but “over the following days and weeks, it was a case of …, like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in.”

It’s a “freak of nature” that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. “It died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation �� so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly.”

Fearsome top predator of the seas

The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.

The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the world’s most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.

Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that “the animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space.”

By Issy Ronald.

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an MV-22B Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 takes off from the USS America while conducting routine operations in the Philippine Sea, July 24, 2024. ( j andre)

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