no, no, not star trek, TSAR trek! it is russian inwention! vas inwented by little old lady from leningrad!
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in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we can bring back swing music and the aesthetics of that era but keep modern values who’s with me
you can’t repeat the past
can’t repeat the past? why, of course you can! of course you can.
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if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot
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The Potoo - Either the most unphotogenic or the most ridiculous looking bird in the world.
unphotogenic? these are my favorite pictures of any bird ever
This look like a Hayao Miyazaki creature.
OMG I’m still laughing HELP.
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Hammurabi; King of Babylon.
Hammurabi was the 6th king of the empire known as Babylon, he inherited the throne in 1792 BC. Shamshi-Adad was ruler in the North of Babylon at that time and Rim-Sin had just unified the south. Hammurabi had even owed allegiance to Shamshi-Adad in the beginning of his reign but soon he started a period now called “the Old Babylonian Period”, the beginning of Babylon’s dominance over southern Mesopotamia for the next 1500 years.
In the early years of his reign his name is mentioned in conflicts against all his powerful neighbors but there was never a significant outcome. Most of his attention was directed inwards, towards the development of his state, mainly digging irrigation canals, fortifying cities, expanding temples and heightening city walls. Only after this was achieved did he turn his attention fully to a wider scale, his military activities were short but devastating. In the years 1766 – 1761 BC he established full dominance over southern Mesopotamia and he quickly defeated small city states left in the area. Only the north of Mesopotamia stayed relatively free of his early political campaigns, after two campaigns his grasp on the area was strained at best, Hammurabi was however, beyond a doubt, the most powerful king of Mesopotamia. He proclaimed himself to be “the king who made the four quarters of the earth obedient.”
The core of Hammurabi’s considerable state was Babylon, this city thrived under his rule as he was meticulous as a ruler. Unfortunately all our information about Babylon comes from records in other cities because there is virtually no archeological evidence of the city. Many of the primary sources are letter writer by Hammurabi to agents who were loyal in these other cities.
Hammurabi’s ideology was simple but strong, he considered himself to be a shepherd and a farmer. This ideology is expressed in one of the most famous monuments from ancient Mesopotamia; “the Hammurabi law code”. The monument is a 2 meter high diorite stele almost completely covered with texts. Between the prologue and the epilogue there are some 300 statements, all formulated in the “If…, then…”pattern and described various criminal offenses and their punishments. The first written laws in the world. The philosophy behind these codes appear to be based on the ideas of ‘an eye for an eye’ but also the presumed innocence of a person. The accuser has to provide evidence of guilt before judgment is given.
An important section in this code:
“I am indeed the shepherd who brings peace, whose scepter is just.
My benevolent shade was spread over my city, I held the people of the lands of Sumer and Akkad safely on my lap.”
The function of this monument seems straightforward but there has been much debate and general consensus now is that this monument is not meant as a code of law but as a monument presenting Hammurabi as an exemplary king of justice. In his own words:
“May any wronged man who has a case come before my statue as king of justice, and may he have my inscribed stele read aloud to him. May he hear my precious words and may my stele clarify his case for him. May he examine has lawsuit and may he calm his (troubled) heart. May he say: “Hammurabi …. Provided just ways for the land”.”
The stele not only provided justice but it also provides us insights into Babylonian society at that time. The stele shows a stratified society in which three major groups occur. The first is the group of awilum, or free men, then the mushkenum, or the dependents, and lastly the wardum, the slaves. Punishments for the same crimes varied according to the criminals and victims status. Injuries to a free man were punishes harder then injuries to a slave. However, we have to keep in mind that these punishments and terms were not absolute.
On the stele at the top we see Hammurabi receiving these law from a god (perhaps Marduk) and in the text it is stated that Hammurabi was chosen to deliver these laws to man. It was found in Persia in 1901 and is now on display at the museum in Paris.
By the end of his reign Hammurabi had singlehandedly altered the political layout of Mesopotamia. Babylon was now the single most greatest power, surrounded by weaker remnants of once powerful city states, such as Elam, Eshnuma and Assur. However, this unification was short-lived, only ten years after Hammurabi’s son, Samsuiluna, had ascended the throne did he face a great rebellion in the south of Babylon.
Although Samsuiluna won the fight, he lost full control of the south of Babylon and this was never restored. In Samsuiluna’s 30th year on the throne many cities conquered by his father were no longer in his control. Strangely enough these cities were not just lost politically, according to archeological evidence these cities were completely abandoned. This was perhaps a result of the ferocious response of Samsuiluna to the rebellion and these areas were too damaged and destroyed to sustain any further occupation.
However, in the northern areas Hammurabi’s descendents ruled for another 100 years.
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"The truth is that even collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proven by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned second hand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than stories and those rows of shelves that end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
— Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards (via ekimsal)
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"There is only one plot - things are not what they seem."
— Jim Thompson
"Before you begin to write a sentence, imagine the scene you want to paint with your words. Imagine that you are the character and feel what the character feels. Smell what the character smells, and hear with that character’s ears. For an instant, before you begin to write, see and feel what you want the reader to see and feel."
— Othello Bach
i wasnt kidding
fur elise dubstep
gay porn
welcome to my life
holy fuck
hnnnngh
is this the song they play as you enter through heaven’s gates
eXCUSE ME WHAT KIND OF DELICIOUS AMBROSIAC DELICACY IS THIS
I was prepared to be disgusted and here I am reblogging this wonderful piece of ear noise
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M&Ms Droplets
now that’s what photography should be about… not a black and white picture of someone’s shoes
The top picture is full of M&M’s. They’re bule, red, orange, green, yellow, and brown.
But in the bottom picture we clearly see there’s white, pink, and even purple candies in the bowl.
The bottom picture is of gumballs! This concludes that the bottom picture is not taken with that camera at all. I’d even go as far to say that it was edited in photoshop with a filter!
Yes the above image and the below image are not the same photograph being taken. This is rather obvious.
BUT Mr. Wright there is one thing you overlooked. Examine the droplets on the bottom image. None of them are from the same angle. This is a natural occurance when looking through water droplets.
Is it not possible that the photographer took the second image first?
Would it not be more probable that when asked HOW it was taken he/she took the above image of their setup Using M&Ms, something much more common in a household rather than many gumballs, something they may have just bought for the original photo?
So to claim it was not taken with the same camera is indeed a long shot Mr. Wright.
Thank you for your time.
Really Edgeworth, is that you’re argument.
Aren’t you overlooking the fact that there are no pink M&Ms. This proves undeniably that these are not, in fact M&Ms, but some other kind of candy.
And one other thing, I find it highly improbable that not one piece of candy is facing so the M logo is on the candy.
So in conclusion, there is no way these are possibly M&Ms.
hey mister I think you’re confuuuuuuused. Edgeworth agreed that they weren’t M&M’s. He was just refuting that there is a possibility there wasnt any photoshop used and that the above image was only depicting the method used in the bottom image.
I think someone might be getting a little senile hehehe
Everyone seems to be walking around the accusations by examining whether they are or aren’t M&Ms. That is not what’s important. What we should be looking at is instead, the so-called droplets, compared to the background image.
The angles within the droplets do not realistically coincide with one another! As well, I don’t spend much time staring at drops of water, but I can surely say I’ve never seen such clarity in any water droplet. Also, as in the former picture, there is an obvious fogging on the glass, surely caused by whichever process was used to spray the water. Where is the fog?
On top of all that, the drops are amazingly tiny compared to the anonymous-candy. One could argue the sheet is further away than in the ‘example’ pic, but the blurring of the candies definitely objects to that. We could also try to assume that the spray method used in the ‘original’ photo caused much tinier water spots, but are we to believe that the photographer was so careless that they couldn’t recreate the correct droplet size in the ‘example’? Surely, they should have been able to cause at least a closer resemblance.
Sure seems like they went out of their way to showcase the methodology of how the photograph was taken, yet neglected to go far enough to ensure it could be a like-comparison?
Rather unlikely!
Actually, Mr. Godot!!
Well, according to the properties of light and the way it’s refracted…
If you mirror it the right way, they line up just fine!
Hold on there, pups. You’re all going in completely different directions. Shih-na, if you will?
Lang Zi says: “The truth lies not at the exit, but rather, shines outside the maze itself.”
You need to see past the boundaries given to you in order to figure out the actual purpose and, as much as I’d hate to admit, both Mr. Prosecutor and the crow-girl have some pretty tame ground under their feet with those assumptions.
As said before, it’s logical to assume the photographer is merely depicting the method used in order to get the results shown in the second photo—and it can be just that.
But what if it’s something else entirely?
We’re all wolves who’ve been swindled by the coyote that has stolen our kill. How do we know if the photographer just isn’t using some clever ploy to get us all confused? He could have taken these pictures separately and simply put them together with getting us riled up in mind.
I think we all need to reconsider our options, here.
Casually brings it back.
amazing use of gifs, ladies and gentleman
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