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Vortex Rings at Dawn

Vortex rings blown from Mount Etna’s vents drift through the dawn light in this beautiful image from Dario Giannobile.  (Image credit: D. Giannobile; via APOD) Read the full article

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1865-1867

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PINGAT JET BEADED BUTTERFLY EVENING CAPE

1890’s

Maison Emile Pingat A. Walles & Cie

Cream satin with chiffon shoulder drape beneath two layers of stiffened black net decorated as butterfly wings with silver sequins and faceted jet beads, the high neck having a large beaded wire butterfly at back.

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Ball Gown

Jean-Philippe Worth, 1902

Collection Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti

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Dress, early 1900′s

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• Woman's Wedding Ensemble: Dress, Slip, and Headpiece.

Date: 1925

Designer/Maker: Jeanne Lanvin (French, 1867–1946)

Medium: Dress: silk georgette and tulle with silver lamé appliqué and silk and metallic thread embroidery; Slip: silk satin with metallic lace; Headpiece: silver lamé with wax orange blossoms.

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Court dress, c.1920

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Woman's ensemble

1894-96

Silk

FIDM Museum

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Worth ball gown ca. 1902

From the Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti via Europeana Fashion

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Dress

1880s

The Goldstein Museum of Design

Orange means healing.

Central Florida Emergency Trans Care Fund

Equality Florida

ACLU Florida

Tampa Bay Abortion Fund

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Evening dress ca. 1910

From Tessier-Sarou

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Cladonia rappii

Slender ladder lichen, Rapp's cup lichen

You know that one friend you have who is just always like, annoyingly extra? Like they just kinda have to out do everyone else, even on things that don't even really matter. And you love them and you know there isn't anything inherently wrong with wanting attention or whatever but part of you is just always like . . . why? That's C. rappii for me. Like yes we get it--you don't just have cups, you have stalks on cups on stalks on cups on cups. Very nice, we all see it. This Cladonia lichen has a basal thallus made up of notched squamules, and a secondary thallus made up of podetia 3-11 cm tall. These podetia are often branched, and have centrally proliferating cups which grow in tiers up to 16 flared, shallow cups stacked on top of each other! The edges of the cups are upturned and toothed. The surface of the podetia is bark-like or squamulose, and gray-green to brown in color. You can find C. rappii's extravagant self growing on sandy soils and rotting wood in costal and tropical localities, outdoing its compatriots for no apparent reason besides that that's just how they are.

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• Dress.

Date: ca. 1950-1960

Medium: Gingham, net, velvet

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• Dress.

Date: ca. 1900

Medium: Silk

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Hannah Streefkerk

crocheted & embroidered lichen installation

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Three Ladies at the beach 1895

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Mantua from the 1720s