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#Art #EgyptianArt Statues of Neferronpet

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Pinocchio frog or northern Pinocchio treefrog (Litoria pinocchio) photographed by Tim Laman. This time, the name needs no explanation.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Wallum Rocket Frog (Litoria freycineti) photographed by iNaturalist user teejaybee

#Art #EgyptianArt Two small statues, one turquoise, one brown. @HistoPol thinks that these are funeral figurines called ushabtis.

@VeroniqueB99 In the eye of the bekeeper?

#Art #EgyptianArt Two statuettes

If Michelangelo was such a genius, why did he screw up the first fifteen chapels and only get it right with the Sixteenth Chapel?

#Art #EgyptianArt Statue of Iuty. Iuty was a doctor at the court in Memphis. Like priests, he has his head shaven for hygiene reasons. Around 1191 BCE.

Nobody played yesterday's #wordgame --the solution was 1C 2B 3E 4D 5A

Today's game:
1. Bating
2. Colcannon
3. Menhir
4. Ephod
5. Bretwalda

A. An Anglo-Saxon term, likely meaning "ruler of Britain" or "wide-ruler," used to describe a king who held overlordship over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
B. A fisherman's term for decreasing when making nets
C. A standing stone
D. An Old Testament priestly garment, probably a kind of apron
E. A dish made primarily from potatoes and cabbage

Delighted to learn about 18th-century King Gustav III of Sweden. Intent on proving the harmful effects of tea and coffee, he commuted the death sentences of identical twins to life imprisonment, if one of them would drink 3 pots of coffee every day for the rest of his life, and the other the same amount of tea.

The tea-drinking twin died at 83, long after the king's death by assassination. No one knows when the coffee-drinking twin died, because both doctors monitoring him died before him.

As someone who's always on the lookout for new English words, this ABC news story has a whole phrase, as precious and as rare as the big Mars rock that the story is about: "olivine-gabbroic shergottite."

Make sure not to confuse it with your boring old, run-of-the-mill, plain-vanilla shergottite. This is the olivine-gabbroic stuff we're talking about.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/largest-mars-rock-found-earth-sold-43m-sothebys/story?id=123801994

#Art #JapaneseArt Look everybody, Google Photos thinks that Japanese 19th-century art is me "gettin' crafty"!

AI is going to revolutionize the world.

"It's fun for the whole family at the Otto Warmbier Recreation Center!"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0w59r54w9o

#nature Of all the adorable baby animals, this little blue heron chick ranks high on the adorableness scale

#Art #JapaneseArt Portrait of the poet Hagiwara Sakutaro by Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955)

#Frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Brazilian Swimming Frog (Pseudis bolbodactyla) photographed by Lucas Grandinetti

#JapaneseArt #Art A haiku collection about loyalty and filial piety - Sanshichiro Yoshitaka by Konishi Hirosada (1826-1863)

#JapaneseArt #Art Unknown Japanese print showing the interior of a kabuki theater

In 1993, a local politician in Amstelveen, a suburb of Amsterdam, got so bored with city council meetings, which frequently went on till late at night, that he submitted a motion to the council: whenever a meeting goes on past 11 PM, the members of the council are entitled to a "kroket" (a popular deep-fried snack).

To his surprise, the motion passed and was even adopted by other city councils.

The man himself, Jan Peter Balkenende, eventually became the prime minister of the Netherlands.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Godman's Tree Frog (Tlalocohyla godmani) photographed by Nelson Martin Ceron De La Luz