I would really like to know more about about this… it’s really unsettling
Henri-Edmond Cross: Étude pour Faune (l’homme à la grappe), 1905-1906.
Dating of bones suggest humans made music 42,000+ years ago
The oldest instrument: Unearthed from the Hohle Fels Cave in Germany, the above flute (made from animals; bird bone and mammoth ivory flutes have been found) now stands as the oldest known human instrument. Upon initial testing, researchers believed bones found with the flute to be roughly 35,000 years old, but improved radiocarbon dating has revealed that they’re actually between 42,000 and 43,000 years old. The implications of this on our knowledge of humanity’s history are considerable — past dating suggested humans waited on warmer weather before heading into Central Europe, near the Danube River, but now it appears that humans moved up the Danube well prior to an especially cold period of the Ice Age. source
Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
Image Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo, NASA, EUMETSAT, NERC Satellite Receiving Station, U. Dundee
Brazilian Ranch Hand.. Oh Yeah I can dream.. Lol
Lukas Rodrigues
A reclining man - 1936 - Konstantin Andreevich Somov
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Today in awesome: A Brazilian company called Guitar Pee has created a musical urinal that turns your stream into a solo. When your flow hits the tabs in the urinal, prerecorded, solo guitar sounds play. New meaning to the word Guitar Wiz
Today in things you can’t make up.
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May 29th 1953: Hillary and Norgay reach summit of Mount Everest
On this day in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain: Mount Everest. Many previous attempts to scale the peak had failed, but New Zealander Hillary and Nepalese Norgay reached the top (29,028 feet) at 11.30am local time on May 29th 1953. Norgay later revealed that Hillary had been the first to step onto the summit. The pair spent only 15 minutes taking pictures at the summit before they began their descent. Tenzing left chocolates in the snow as an offering and Hillary left a cross that he had been given by John Hunt (leader of the expedition). News of their success reached London on the morning of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation on June 2nd and upon arrival in Kathmandu Hillary and Hunt discovered they had been knighted.
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THE LAST SUPPER — WOOL VERSION
Miss Elizabeth LeFort, Canada’s internationally famous “Artist In Wool”, is shown with one of her finest reproductions. Her portraits of prominent persons include those of President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth, which she personally presented, and her portrait of Pope Pius XII, which hangs in the Vatican today.
