TUESDAY #4269

One Of My Very Own

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FROM DAYS OF YORE

The Medici Family build a 1km long elevated walkway in Florence in 1585 just to avoid contact with the common people.

 It circles around the Manelli Tower cause this family wouldn't move out.

It evens attaches to the facade of the Felicia Church.

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Sleeping Cupid

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This is still confusing to me.
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Artist's palette from 3,400 years ago

The cakes of green, brown, yellow, red & black are clearly visible. It must have belonged to a professional as the colors haven't been reduced to a monotonous brown. The cartouche on the left says ‘Amenhotep III, beloved of Re’ 
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This is what passed as a practical joke back then...

"Take a capon & pluck it alive, take some brandy & put it under his nose so he'll fall asleep; then grease it with fat & put toasted breadcrumbs on top & make a crust so it looks like it's been roasted. Put it on the plate, bring it to the table & if you cut it, it will run away."

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Being a soldier deployed in World War II, or any war at that is one of the most stressful things a man can experience. Not only is he far from his family, but he also is uncertain if he will return home from the battlefield alive. To keep themselves close to the people they left as they went to the battlefield, soldiers back in those days would put pictures of their families or sweethearts on clear grips. These grips would then be known as “sweetheart grips”.

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Where The World Splits In Two

The Abyss is a deep crack that appears to go down to the center of the earth. If you wanna reach this place, you need your hiking shoes because you’ll take a 4.5-kilometer hike along the Extension Ridge in Nanaimo, Canada. Narcity has more details: The photos of this fissure don't do it justice for how impressive it is. Just make sure not to get too close. There are no barriers around here, so you do have to be careful. The long crack in the ground is roughly 16 inches wide. It is wide enough for a pet or person to fall into. The cause of the long split is still a mystery. Some of the theories suggest the area is the result of a collapsed old mine tunnel or an earthquake.

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Gustave Eiffel’s Tower was just one of 300 to 700 submitted pitches (estimates vary) vying to be Paris’ world’s fair centerpiece.

 Yet the spire that was ultimately erected on the Champ de Mars was an order of magnitude less audacious than one of the most peculiar also-rans: a 1,000-foot-tall guillotine that would have commemorated France’s headless-horseman history, when at least 17,000 people were guillotined during the Reign of Terror, including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. Little is recorded of the ornamental, Godzilla-sized pillar with a blade — no contemporary illustrations, no manifesto behind its conception, no specs on the size of the cutting edge, only enough stray details to tease us with what might have been.

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Bathroom:

– crude
– played out
– may not even contain a bathtub

Lavatory:

– sophisticated
– continental
– may contain lava?

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INFORMATION OF WHICH YOU MAY BE UNAWARE

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SOURCE: CLICK HERE 

I approve.
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A washing-machine sized meteorite crashed into a village, but this particular space rock was unlike the others: it was practically alive! 

The fragments of the meteorite, called Aguas Zarcas, contain a remnant of the early solar system. The Aguas Zarcas has organic molecules as complex as amino acids, the building blocks of life. 
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Only Americans would equate the size of something using appliances.
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Quantum Physicists Say That Time Travelers Don't Have to Worry about the Butterfly Effect

Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no “butterfly effect.” In the research, information—qubits, or quantum bits—“time travel” into the simulated past. One of them is then strongly damaged, like stepping on a butterfly, metaphorically speaking. Surprisingly, when all qubits return to the “present,” they appear largely unaltered as if reality is self-healing. 

“On a quantum computer, there is no problem simulating opposite-in-time evolution, or simulating running a process backwards into the past,” said Nikolai Sinitsyn, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and co-author of the paper with Bin Yan, a postdoc in the Center for Nonlinear Studies, also at Los Alamos. “So we can actually see what happens with a complex quantum world if we travel back in time, add small damage, and return. We found that our world survives, which means there’s no butterfly effect in quantum mechanics.” 
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Now, a new innovation developed by scientists in Australia could be the most promising one yet, with researchers using metal-organic framework compounds (or MOFs) together with sunlight to purify water in just half an hour, using a process that's more efficient than existing techniques.

It's cheap, it's stable, it's reusable, and it produces water that meets the World Health Organization standards for desalination. Around 37 gallons of clean water can be produced per day from 2.2 pounds of MOF material, based on early testing. 
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Crockpots aren't just handy kitchen tools, they may also be an effective way to sanitize N95 respirators. 

SOURCE: CLICK HERE 
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https://youtu.be/5WjJVuYRcSU


I found their approach to the problem fascinating.
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Horrifying footage of Beirut Hospital during the blast at the port.

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Me: Please bring me a screwdriver.

Her: Flathead, Phillips, or Vodka?

And that was when I knew she was the one.

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RATHER UNIQUE OBJECTS

A new flexible handle sledgehammer.

I do see how that flexible handle would greatly increase the impact force, but I have not idea how I could control the strike point.
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 There is an Elk with a Tire around its neck in Mount Evans, Colorado.

 Elusive to park rangers, they search for it.

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 Guilty.
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Can you guess what this is...

 Here's a hint...

Spotted Skunks sometimes do a handstand and dance around to ward off potential aggressors.

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Tut's last resting place

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 Spirit Lake

 What’s up with the surface of the water at the northern end of the lake? 

It’s all logs. The Mt. St. Helens' eruption flattened miles of forest and blew thousands of trees into the lake. The surface was almost entirely covered with logs. They have been slowly sinking since the eruption 40 years ago. 
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National Geographic Macro Photography Winners

That one is just Eucalyptus tree bark. 
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Screw Propulsion by Colin Furgze

As I understand it those are extraordinarily inefficient.
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I got so excited about my new pillbox that now Alexa won’t stop suggesting assisted living facilities.

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HUMAN ACTIVITIES I CAN NOT OR WILL NOT DUPLICATE

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23 Year Old Ashley Judd on The Next Generation.
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Filling ice cream tubs

I would have to make $1000 an hour to perform a job that boring...truly. 
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Finally...those high heels came in handy.
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