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A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei.

Oil painting.

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Elements of Tibetan predictive astrology. Watercolour.

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Earth & Wear by Nicki

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‘Sleeping Nymph’ by Alexander Rothaug (German, 1870–1946)

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Virgen de Guadalupe - Marion Martinez’s Circuit Board Art

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Not exactly what I want to see in a gas station bathroom.

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A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury.

Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

Ibbs, Edith A.

Date:

1900-1909

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A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty.

Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.

Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.

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Lourdes, France: the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: a crowd looks on as women hold up a

commemorative shield and banner. Photograph, ca. 1870.

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Sweet reader, the girl did not prove her innocence.

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POINT AND LAUGH

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Pranked

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a stud in black leather on a black motorcycle just revved their engine at me and thank god I tore my demonic uterus out ages ago because I think that would have finally knocked me up

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Truly a shame there's not more yak appreciation on tumblr.

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A photograph by Charles Roscoe Savage of Mormon polygamists in the Utah Penitentiary, ca. 1889. First popularised in the early 19th century, prison stripes gradually fell out of fashion across the 20th century. New York banned stripes in 1899, citing an improvement in prisoner morale after switching to grey work-wear.

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).