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[dilfdoney]

Part 1

Mission success?? Maybe??

[elffromforests]

I have a mini dream. I really want Benjamin Walker and Mark Ferguson to meet on stage one day somewhere at the Magic Con / SDSS and shake hands, and all this to the accompaniment of thunderous applause from the audience

You just imagine 2 GG 🤩

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Trying to make some designs and backstories for Darth Calculus specifically, but also the two characters I have that I consider closely associated (and to an extent, victims) of Chakalata.

Decided to make Goober Katrina and Johnny Roast’s older brother. It’s gonna make more sense when I finally write down my idea of Goober’s backstory. Ennis on the other hand is my idea for SDSS’s “permanent host”, so far the idea is that the two co-exist— like venom and Eddie. They might be a demigod… And Darth Calculus is just a man afraid of his own mortality to the point of removing everything that makes him human.

[chibinotan]

Hazy Galaxy

[juststayquiete]

[storiearcheostorie]

Sicilia, recuperato un altro rostro della Battaglia delle Egadi del 241 a.C. [FOTO / VIDEO]

ARCHEOLOGIA | Sicilia, recuperato un altro rostro della Battaglia delle Egadi del 241 a.C. [FOTO / VIDEO] I dettagli e il videoservizio su Storie & Archeostorie

Elena Percivaldi Guarda il videoservizio Il mare siciliano continua a restituire importanti tesori archeologici. La campagna di ricerche di agosto ha, infatti, consentito di recuperare un altro rostro in bronzo, rimasto adagiato per oltre 2.200 anni a circa 80 metri di profondità sul fondale a nord-ovest dell’isola di Lèvanzo. Era infatti il 10 marzo del 241 a.C. quando Romani e Cartaginesi si…

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Sundar Dhoka Saathi Sewa (SDSS) Vacancy 2081 at Finance and Admin Officer

Sundar Dhoka Saathi Sewa (SDSS) Vacancy 2081 at Finance and Admin Officer. Interested and Qualified candidates are invited to apply by 15th July 2024,5:00 p.m. CAREER OPPORTUNITY Sundar Dhoka Saathi Sewa (SDSS) Vacancy 2081 at Finance and Admin Officer Sundar Dhoka Saathi Sewa (SDSS) is a registered Non-Government Organization in Lalitpur district that aims to make positive changes in the life…

[without-ado]

Gifts from Webb l Dec. 2023

The vast galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2152 l Center of Star cluster IC 348 l Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A l Ice giant Uranus & its moons

[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal "Nature" reports the discovery of a pair of merging galaxies cataloged as SDSS J0749+2255 which has the peculiarity of hosting a double quasar. A team of researchers led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used various ground-based and space telescopes to study SDSS J0749+2255 to obtain observations detailed enough to resolve the two quasars, both of which are extremely bright. The difficulty in these observations is also given by the fact that this pair is very distant and we see it as it was when the universe was about three billion years old and the distance between the two supermassive black holes that power their respective quasars is only about ten thousand light-years.

[dilfdoney]

Self-Doubt ; Self-Sacrifice

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Ghost can’t even give a gift right poor guy

[spacewonder19]

Galactic Gathering © JWST

Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1226+2152: its immense mass distorts and magnifies the light from more distant galaxies behind it - a spectacular example of gravitational lensing

[chibinotan]

Early Galactic Magnetic Field

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Wide field Hubble view of extremely red quasar SDSS J165202.64+172852.3 by European Space Agency

[fanning-the-flames]

And now updated Sect Leader Jiang a la El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent. I’m glad you all liked this concept from when I posted the value study earlier (seriously I didn't expect that many people to like a simple value study but such is the genius of Sargent)…the enthusiasm made me more excited to finish the piece!

Sure he’s not gripping Zidian very well and I don’t see how he wouldn’t slice off his own leg with Sandu positioned like that, but it looks awesome so it all works out. Probably. Sargent has always been willing to make stuff up for the aesthetics.

Now for a detail view of Sandu Shengshou:

See under the cut for my head canons for the OG JC stans, the gremlin disciples.

Which disciple are you?

(1) Xichen?! He let himself in I had no say 2) Having a good time 3) Probably a Spider from Yu Sect. V proud of SLJ 4) Jiang Sect musician. San xian [a traditional Chinese instrument] which is made of snake skin 5) Always wants a glimpse of Sect Leader but is subtle about it 6) Wants a glimpse and is LOUD and PROUD about it 7) Hype squad! Particularly hypes feral JC even more 8) VP of SDSS fan club. Jin Ling is Prez obvs.)

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Ancient Warship’s Bronze Battering Ram Sunk During a Battle Between Rome and Carthage Found

Found near the Aegadian Islands, just west of Sicily, the bronze rostrum played a role in the last battle of the First Punic War, which ended in 241 B.C.E.

In 241 B.C.E., two empires faced off in a naval clash off the coast of Sicily. By then, Rome and Carthage had been fighting for more than two decades. Rome’s victory in the skirmish, officially called the Battle of the Aegates, brought an end to the First Punic War, the initial conflict in a series of wars between the two ancient powers.

Now, explorers have recovered a piece of that final battle: the bronze battering ram of an ancient warship. According to a statement from Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea, the ram was found on the seafloor off the western coast of the Mediterranean island, at a depth of around 260 feet. To retrieve the artifact, the team used deep-water submarines from the Society for Documentation of Submerged Sites (SDSS) and the oceanographic research vessel Hercules.

The seabed off the Aegadian Islands “is always a valuable source of information to add further knowledge about the naval battle between the Roman and Carthaginian fleets,” Regional Councilor for Cultural Heritage Francesco Paolo Scarpinato tells Finestre sull’Arte. He adds that the find is yet another confirmation of the work of the late archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa, who spearheaded exploration of the seabed as the site of the 241 battle after a separate ram, also known as a rostrum, was first found there in the early 2000s. In the two decades since, researchers have recovered at least 25 rams from the seabed.

At the time of the Battle of the Aegates, Rome and Carthage had been at war for 23 years, fighting for dominance in the Mediterranean. As the Greek historian Polybius later wrote, the Romans sank 50 Carthaginian ships and captured another 70 along with their crews, taking nearly 10,000 sailors prisoner during the naval battle. Rome forced Carthage to surrender. But the fragile peace was short-lived: Over the next century, Rome would go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time.

“It was very costly, both in terms of human life and economically,” Francesca Oliveri, an archaeologist at the superintendence, told BBC News’ Alessia Franco and David Robson in 2022. “In the last phase, Rome even had to ask for a loan from the most well-to-do families to arm the fleet and build new boats.”

The recently discovered ram has been brought to Favignana, one of the Aegadian Islands, for further study. Though its features are difficult to make out because the object is covered in marine life, researchers have been able to discern a decoration on its front: a relief depicting a Montefortino-style Roman helmet decorated with three feathers.

The battering ram adds to the wealth of war relics found on the seabed, which also include 30 Roman soldiers’ Montefortino helmets, two swords, coins and many clay amphorae (large storage jars).

According to the SDSS, rams were the most important naval weapons of their time. They were placed on the bows of warships at water level so that sailors could crash their boats into enemy vessels, damaging and sinking them. The plethora of rams scattered on the seabed are testaments to the weapons’ effectiveness in ancient battle.

“We are finding so many things that help to illustrate a little better the world of the third century [B.C.E.],” Oliveri told BBC News in 2022. “It’s the first site of a naval battle, in the world, that has been scientifically documented like this, and it will continue to be documented—because the area of interest is very large. … It will take at least another 20 years to explore it fully.”

By Sonja Anderson.