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A Texan farmer went on a vacation to Australia! 

A Texas farmer went on vacation to Australia. He met up with an Australian farmer who prouldly showed off his wheat field.

"That's nothing" said the Texan. "Back home, we have wheat fields that are twice as large as this."

Next the Australian pointed out his cattle.

"They're nothing," said the Texan. "Back home, we have longhorns that are twice as big as your cows."

Just then, half a dozen kangaroos bounded across the road.

"What are those?" asked the Texan.

The Australian replied, "Don't you have grasshoppers in Texas?"

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A Prince & Princess <3

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Commission for @gainerator on twitter Love the failed actor trope🎭

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Statue of the goddess Sekhmet

1390–1353 BCE (New Kingdom)

Thebes, temple of Mut

Stone / Granodiorite

Egyptian Museum, Turin

In the columns of hieroglyphs on the front of the throne, the goddess is described as “Sekhmet (the Powerful One) of the Thrones of the Two Lands”. Under her feet are the Nine Bows, symbols of the enemies of Egypt. On the sides of the throne is carved the sema-tawy, the knotted heraldic plants of Upper and Lower Egypt representing the union of the Two Lands. (Museum info card). And the bird hieroglyph naturally caught my eye :)

Turin, June 2023

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He’s not heavy, he’s my hitchhiker. With great shell comes great responsibility. Big shell, big heart. Shell I go on? Copse snail/fläcklundsnäcka. Värmland, Sweden (May 10, 2020).

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Well, here we are in Spain. I feel like I am just getting started, and I wish I had more new episodes yet to come, but we have come to the final episode of what's turning out to be one of the most wonderful things I've ever done.

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Who the fuck did we piss off so badly that we had to see that fuckrag Logan Paul twice in one night?

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Hansaem Kim - The Devil in Iron, 2021 (Aluminium leaf, pigment print, resin)

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Ritually Bent Bronze Age Sword Found in Denmark

The sword, which has iron rivets in its handle, may be one of the earliest iron artifacts found in Denmark.

A metal detectorist has unearthed a long, bronze sword that was bent into an S shape during an ancient ritual in what is now Denmark.

The sword and other artifacts — which were found in a bog near Veksø, northwest of Copenhagen — date to about 2,500 years ago, during the late Bronze Age. They are thought to have been part of a ritual sacrifice, although this practice was no longer common at that time. Upon discovering the artifacts, the metal detectorist notified the Danish museum group ROMU.

"It's what I would describe as a very rare find," excavation leader Emil Winther Struve, an archaeologist and curator with ROMU, said in a translated statement.

Although such items were often deposited in bogs as sacrifices during the early and middle Bronze Age in northern Europe, "We don't know that many from the latter part of the Bronze Age," he said. However, the practice of sacrificing or killing people in bogs — leaving behind remains known as "bog bodies" — spans a longer period, from the Stone Age to the 19th century.

Ritual sacrifice

In addition to the bent sword, archaeologists found other Bronze Age artifacts, including two small, bronze axes; several large, bronze "ankle rings"; and what may be a fragment of a needle, according to the statement.

A few days later, the archaeologists also discovered a large, bronze "neck ring" just 230 feet (70 meters) away. The neck ring is only the second of its kind found in Denmark, and the archaeologists think from its style that it was imported from what's now the Baltic coast of Poland.

Bronze Neck Ring

The bronze sword's handle contains two iron rivets that may be the earliest iron ever found in Denmark. The ROMU statement described the sword as "almost a physical manifestation of the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age."

The sword's design suggests it was not made in Denmark but rather in more southern parts of Europe that were dominated by the Hallstatt culture during the Bronze Age, the statement said. The Hallstatt culture thrived from about the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. and was influenced by Europe's early Celtic culture.

The ritually bent sword was a genuine weapon and indicated a transition from more lightweight swords used mainly for stabbing, Struve said, "but now they are becoming tougher, more solid and have a different weight, so you can use them more violently and for chopping."

The Hallstatt culture had a warrior ideal that demanded conquest, war and conflict. "The sword is perhaps an image of that," Struve said.

By Tom Metcalfe.

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Dam hot 🔥 in that suna

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Endless Bells Hells

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A small angel weeps in front of the memorial for Henry L Parsons and his wife Emma. Henry lived to be 74 before he passed away in 1938. But his wife was just 45 when she passed away in 1909.

Southampton Center Cemetery 3/16/24

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Standing: “This may take a while … let’s go see my buddy.”

Driving: “Sounds good. I could use a good blowjob.”

With their afternoon schedule suddenly altered, the Officers stopped by for a little light relief.  

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川にはコサギがいまし���。ときおり魚を追いかけて、翼を一振りして小さく飛んでいました。好きな場所が増えました。

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