#tet la tet

[hearttohaato]

The official cover art made for To Extinguish the Sun!

Never have I had to draw so many hands at once... I tried to utilize the butterflies vs. viper motif here via the background, unfortunately I’m not the best at drawing snake faces 🥴 Still, I’m proud of this piece! It’s technically on the older side, as it was first posted with TEtS’s last chapter back in April.

(Unfortunately I’ve already seen folks stealing and uploading this art to their own accounts, so I’ve had to put my name in big ol’ letters right in the middle lol)

[ayumoandlongani]

Lèv la Tèt dann Fénwar (dir. Érika Étangsalé)

Koman i lé la Source (dir. Madeleine Beausejour)

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[dystopianam]

Custom Neighborhoods Templates with Premade Sims! - Masterpost

(UPDATED: 14 SEPTEMBER 2024)

Do you love premades but get bored of constantly resetting neighborhoods and of ending up doing the same things over and over again? With this list I offer you some alternatives! Same sims...but with a little...more! Feel free to recommend me others if you know other neighborhoods like these!

Look here for other masterposts!

⚠️ ALWAYS USE THE HOODCHECKER AFTER INSTALLING A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD AND/OR ADDING A SUBHOOD. The HC will clean up messy memories, fix IDs incorrectly associated to other sims, and recover missing tombstones and urns. Always have no-unlink on deleted in your download folder for avoid unlinked character data and use the Urnstone Spawner for respawn manually the tombstones if the HC fail to recover them.

Alternative Neighborhoods by @dreadpirate

Alt Pleasantview V2

Alt Strangetown V2

Alt Veronaville V2

Alt Riverblossom Hills V2

...with a Twist! by @strangetomato

Pleasantview...with a twist!

Strangetown...with a twist!

In Castaway style! by @lordcrumps

Paraiso En Las Rocas (If I can, I would also recommend to download the empty version (or populated, if you don't mind mixing up premades and OCs) of Paraiso En El Mar, because I think they complement each other. PEEM has so many gorgeous community lots! You can use PEEM as Main and PELR as subhood or do the opposite. Personally I would fill the empty version of PEEM with the DV, RVH and BC premades (or just choose some of them) since PELR has all the PV, ST and VV premades + one from BWV)

Early Neighborhoods

Early Pleasantview by @gutosimmer

Early Strangetown by @gutosimmer

Pleasantview 25 years earlier (+ ancestors & infant faces) by Kingakicia2001

From the beginning hoods project on MTS...even more early! The beginning of...

... Pleasantview Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

...Strangetown Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

...Veronaville Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

Strange...neighborhoods! by @chrisnewbie

Strangertown (PC Strangetown + PSP ST)

Strangeytown (DS Strangetown + GBA ST)

Pleasantview Edits!

New Pleasantview by @simstate

Pleasantfort by @khal-ulti

Strangetown Edits!

New Strangetown by @simstate

Veronaville Edits!

Veronaville 2.0 by @delijume-sims

Veronaview by @lordcrumps

Veronaville by @push-tet

Riverblossom Hills Edits!

Katatty's Riverblossom Hills by @katatty

Desiderata Valley Edits!

Katatty's Desiderata Valley by @katatty

Bluewater Village Edits!

Bluewater Village makeover by @plumbtales

Here...something's not right...?? 🤔🥴

Genderswapped Uberhood by sushigal007

Pleasantview but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Strangetown but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Veronaville but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

EMPTY NEIGHBORHOODS

Swapped Strangetown by @katatty

There is no one here??

Empty (No Sims) and Clean Pleasantview, Strangetown and Veronaville by @jawusa (Main + Subhoods)

GET ON LOSER, LET'S GO TO THE CLUB

Downtown makeover by @katatty

Downtown Revamp by TheDudeWithTheDragonTattoos

University campuses 📓

SSU + LFT + ALT by @katatty

Sim State University (+ infant faces) by Kingakicia2001

Vacation neighborhoods

Three Lakes by @plumbtales

Twikki Island with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Three Lakes with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Takemizu Village with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

[defjux]

since we're about halfway through the year, here are my favorite albums released so far in 2024, the first two rows are the albums i've been listening to the most, but the order really doesn't matter. i'm also looking forward to new albums from Melt-Banana, toe, Nilüfer Yanya, Heriot, Spirit of the Beehive, Nails, Modern Color, Fatboi Sharif, Mavi, Blind Girls, and Esperanza Spalding in the next few months. chart with album titles included what are your favorite albums of the year? what have you been listening to the most and what should i be checking out? let me know!

ShrapKnel - Nobody Planning To Leave

Nxworries - WHY LAWD?

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo

Cavalier - Different Type Time

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

Thou - Umbilical

Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN

Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet

Sunmundi & klwn cat - Lived and Born

Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath

Gouge Away - Deep Sage

Joshua Virtue - Black Box: JOSHUA IS DEAD

Punchlove - Channels

Nickelus F - MMCHT

Armand Hammer - BLK LBL

Nakama - EMBERGO_

Boldy James & Conductor Williams - Across the Tracks

Mary Sue - Voice Memos From A Winter In China

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self Snitching

Illsugi & August Fanon - KANAGAWAYORK

Heavenly Blue - We Have The Answer

Crumb - AMAMA

Serengeti - KDIV

Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

Oddisee - And Yet Still

Knoll - As Spoken

Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code

Lupe Fiasco - Samurai

Joanna Wang - Hotel La Rut

Mary Halvorson - Cloudward

.22LR - .22lr

Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

Four Tet - Three

Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves

YUNGMORPHEUS & Alexander Spit - Waking Up and Choosing Violence

Candy - It's Inside You

Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement

Blinder - Drugs of the Sun

Hammok - Look How Long Lasting Everything Is…

Vince Staples - Dark Times

Joel Ross - nublues

[famousinuniverse]

Vietnamese Cultural Dress

The Ao Dai and Non La, the 2 most singinficant dresses of Vietnamese Culture 

The cultural dress of Vietnam is called Ao Dai, meaning "long top". It has been a part of Vietnamese culture since 1774, when it was ordered by Vo Vuong and made mandatory to wear by the Nguyen government. The women wear a long tunic which is long-sleeved, has a high neckline and slits cut down to the waist. It is paired with comfortable trousers, usually white or black in colour. Men also wear the same thing, except that their tunic is shorter than that of a woman's and not slitted. The dress is made up of cotton only, keeping in mind the weather conditions of the country. The colour of a woman's ao dai reflected their marital status as well. White colour was worn by young girls, pastel colour dress by unmarried and bright colours by married women. At present times, the colours do not really reflect what a woman's age/marital status is, because they wear any colour of their choice.

Ao dai is often paired with non la, the cultural hats in Vietnam. The cone-shaped hats are made up of palm leaves and provide shelter from both rain and sunlight.

Vietnamese traditional dress: insights and traditions

Vietnam is a country of diversity, with more than 50 ethnic groups and an array of mountainous and urban communities with a whole host of different traditions. The variety of Vietnamese traditional dress is therefore vast, with some prominent and subtle differences in various parts of the country.

Ao Dai

This is one of the best-known pieces of Vietnamese traditional dress, most commonly worn by women. It consists of a long, fitted silk tunic worn over loose trousers. While young girls often wear white ao dai to reflect their purity, older girls who aren’t yet married tend to wear soft pastel colours. Rich and bright colours are usually worn by married women. The first version of the ao dai dates back to the 1740s, but the look of the ao dai today dates back to the 1930s, when a chicer version of the garment was designed, influenced by the French fashion houses. Men do wear ao dai too, but this is usually reserved for special occasions.

Ao Tu Than

This four-piece dress was mostly worn by women in the north of Vietnam. It is largely obsolete now, but can still be seen worn at special festivals and events in Vietnam, such as Tet.

Ao Ba Ba

This two-piece outfit is worn by both men and women. It’s more common in southern Vietnam, particularly around the Mekong Delta, and consists of a long-sleeved, buttoned silk shirt with a scooped neck and high splits from the bottom up on each side, worn with silk trousers.

Ao Gam

This traditional outfit is worn by Vietnamese men at special occasions. Described as a brocade tunic, the material is thicker than the ao dai and other forms of traditional dress.

Conical Hat

The conical hat (non la) is a common hat spotted in Vietnam. It originally had a practical use as it helped to keep the rain of peoples’ faces as they worked in rice paddies or in other outdoor jobs. It also helped protect the face from the strong sun. They’re made with natural local materials, usually bamboo, palm leaves or tree bark. The shape of the conical hats means they have even more practical uses than this, also used to carry shopping from the market or as a bowl to drink water from!

Ethnic dress

Ethnic groups who live in the more remote hills, mountains and lowlands each have their own distinctive style of traditional dress. The origins of the different styles of dress are usually led by practical matters. For example, people who live in lowland regions often live in houses on stilts over the water. They tend to wear more practical trousers, but shirts have symbols inspired by their surroundings, such as forest flowers. People who live in the mountains tend to wear garments that are easy for working in the fields and traversing mountain passes. However, one thing all such traditional costumes have in common are bright colours and genuine creativity in terms of design.

Silk

Vietnam is a country which produces a huge amount of silk. This tradition is rooted in history – King Ly Thai Tong was encouraging silk production in Vietnam as far back as the year 1,000 – in a drive to further Vietnam’s economic development. Continuing to this day, silk garments can now be found across Vietnam. As well as ao dai made from silk, many people also wear silk shirts and scarves. Interestingly, silk painting is another typical Vietnamese tradition.

Vietnamese traditional dress gives amazing insights into the colourful country of Vietnam. Join us on small group tours to find off-the-beaten track localities and traditions in Vietnam

Vietnamese traditional dress: insights and traditions (mrlinhadventure.com)

[bobcatmoran]

I'm thoroughly enjoying Ultraman Arc so far. I'll be happy if Suit Dude is the only member of the Defense Team we ever see, a la Orb and Naomi's uncle. Meanwhile, SKIP absolutely captures the vibe of "scientific agency that's underfunded by the government in favor of the folks who are given All The Weapons." Their more casual dress code, the entire vibe of their work vehicle, that whole scene of, "Hey, I need a boost" all clock with my personal experience.

The entire SKIP team absolutely vibes with the binder cover our seasonals came up with, which involves drawn caricatures of the emerald ash borer (EAB) biocontrol insects they're studying, and a "#nuthin but tets" caption (short for Tetrastichus planipennisi, one of the parasitic wasps for EAB)

[humansofhanoi]

Bà lên Hà Nội từ năm 10 tuổi kiếm sống và mua được căn nhà này. Mấy hôm nay suy nghĩ nhiều nên ốm, bà tiếc của, tiếc căn nhà dành dụm cho con cho cháu mà ốm...

Tết ở khu giải toả Đại La . I came to Hanoi for a living when I was ten. After saving up for years, I afforded to buy this house. I got sick of thinking too much those days. I feel sad about my asset, about the house that I bought with my hard-earned money for my children...

Tet Holiday at the land in clearance on Dai La Street

[cxyotl]

Do you think you could make a full alphabet for Gruntish? Im a technoblade alter and would like to be able to speak a language similar to the one I grew up with and gruntish is very close to it.

sure thing! with the Piglin language, its mostly sounds and noises. so the alphabet is relatively similar, just pronounced differently. im not a linguist at all, but i’ll give it a shot here!

Letters that sound like each other are the same, for example:

C= K

E= A

I= U

N= M

Q= K

V= U

Z= S

Letters that end in soft sounding consonants are replaced with harsher sounds, for example:

With the word Piglin, I is replaced with U. It should be Puglum, but since Piglins don’t end their words softly, they replace the M with a K. Thus, Pugluk.

The double U consonant (not to be confused with the W) makes an ‘ooh’ sound. this letter is usually used to denote a noun, but not a proper noun. Kruuk is the word for mother, but Kruk is the name a child would use to refer to it’s mom. Pugluk refers to the general population, but if you were to refer to another person as a piglin, you would probably use Pugluuk.

Pronunciations of the alphabet are as follows:

A- Ah

B- Buh

D- Deh

F- Feh

G- Guh

H- Huh

J- Jay

K- Keh

L- La

M- Muh

O- Oh

P- Peh

R- Er

S- Set

T- Tet

U- Uh

V- Vet

W- Wuh

Y- Yuh

UU- Ooh

I wish I could make an entire dictionary at the moment of every word used by Piglins, and I might, but for now I hope this helps!

[aurora-daily]

Music recommended and/or mentioned by AURORA!

ABBA - Thank You For The Music

Advanced Language

Agnes Obel - Falling, Catching / Riverside / Dorian / The Curse (Robert Hampson Remix)

Air - Sexy Boy

Alice Phoebe Lou and Olmo - Devil's Sweetheart

Alt J - Fitzpleasure / Hunger of The Pine / Pulsher

Amanda Delara (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Amanda Tenfjord (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

And Still I Rise - Wrecking Ball

Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive / All We Want is Love / Do You Remember

Anna of the North - Lovers

Annie Lennox - No More "I Love You's"

Antônio Carlos Jobim - Samba De Uma Nota Só

A Perfect Circle - The Outsiders / Weak And Powerless / Passive / Thirteen Steps (album)

Asbjørn - The Love You Have in You / Asbjørn

Askjell - The First Goodbye / L O S T M Y C O O L / Sofia

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows / Revolver (album)

Beck - Blue Moon

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Glenn Morrison’s version)

Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Sunset Village

Bjork -  Army of Me / Homogenic (album) / Human Behaviour / Hyperballad / Joga / Unravel / Violently Happy / All Is Full Of Love (Howie's Version)

The Black Keys - Lonely Boy 

Blondie - Heart Of Glass

Bob Dylan -  Emotionally Yours / Political World / Mr. Tambourine Man (live version) (mentioned as the first song she dug)

Cameron James Laing - The Way

Cats of Transistria - Good Night

Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)

The Chemical Brothers -  Another World / Galvanize / Escape 700 / Hanna's Theme

Cher - Believe

Childish Gambino - This Is America

Claude Debussy, Alexis Weissenberg - Claire de Lune (mentioned as a song that impacted her as a child)

Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

Coldplay - Fix You

College/Electric Youth - A Real Hero (mentioned as the song that got her through her teen angst)

The Cranberries - Dreams  

Crystal Castles - Air War / Celestica / Sad Eyes / Untrust Us

Daft Punk - Digital Love

Damien Rice - Cannonball /  Delicate / Volcano

Daughter - Youth

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust / Blackstar (album) / Life On Mars? / Let’s Dance

dePresno - Forever

Dido - Here with Me 

Dina Ögon - Tombola 94

DNKL - Hunt

Dolores O'Riordan - When We Were Young

Ed Sheeran- No Diggity vs. Thrift Shop (& Passenger, Kygo Remix) / I See Fire (Kygo Remix)

Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose (mentioned as a song which makes her cry)

Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood (Morgenstemning) / Solveig’s Song

Enya - Amarantine / May It Be / Storms In Africa / Ebudae / Boadicea / Watermark / The Memory of Trees (album) 

Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

EvighetenYoung (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Fever Ray - When I Grow Up

Fka Twigs - Water Me

Fleetwood Mac - Big Love / Landslide

Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light / Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)

Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

Gabrielle - 5 fine frøkner

Gaahls WYRD (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Gojira -  Explosia / Mouth of Kala (mentioned as a song she loves that might surprise people)

Goldmund -  Image-Autumn-Womb

Great News - Now And Them (album)

Grimes - Flesh Without Blood

HALIE (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Hans Zimmer - Cornfield Chase

Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus - Moon River

Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Main Theme (mentioned as a song that she wishes she had written)

Imogen Heap -  Headlock / Hide And Seek

Iris -  Romance is Dead / lavender and heaven (mentioned as the song she wants played at her wedding)

Japanese Breakfast - Paprika

Jenny Hval - Golden Locks / Mephisto in the Water

John Williams - Hedwig's Theme (mentioned as a song she wishes that she had made)

John Wizards - Tet Lek Schrempf

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / Kangaru

Johnny Cash (mentioned as the artist she likes)

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting / Babooshka

Khold - Myr

Kimbra - Top of the World

Kishi Bashi - I Am the Antichrist to You

Kvelertak (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful

Leif Vollebekk - Elegy

Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Live) /  Suzanne (Live) /  The Partisan (mentioned as an important song which her parents listened to) /  You Want It Darker (album) / It Seemed the Better Way / Greatest Hits (album) / Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye 

Lorde (mentioned as the artist she would like to collaborate with) 

Lou Bega -  Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)

Madonna - Frozen / Drowned world/Substitute for Love

Madrugada - Majesty

Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

Massive Attack - Daydreaming /  Teardrop

Mastodon - The Hunter / High Road

Masterdon (mentioned as the artist she likes)

Matt Maltese - As the World Caves In

Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight

Metteson - Under Your Shirt

Miki Matsubara - 真夜中のドア/ Stay With Me

Moby - Porcelain / A Seated Night

Moyka - Colder

Naaz (mentioned as the artist she likes)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Nicholas Hooper - When Ginny Kissed Harry

O. Martin - Nowhere Is Home

Paolo Nutini - Everywhere

Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals

Poliça - Happy Be Fine

Prince - Sexuality

Put Your Hands Up for Neo-Tokyo - Get By

Queen - Under Pressure

Radiohead - No Surprises

RED MOON (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

RHODES - Turning Back Around

Rockettothesky - Grizzly Man (mentioned as the first song discovered on her own)

Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument 

Robot Koch - Nitesky (feat John LaMonica)

Rudimental - Waiting All Night ft. Ella Eyre

Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way

RY X - Berlin

Sarah Brightman - Eden

SEA CHANGE - Above

Secret Garden - Windancer / Windancer

Seigmen - Monument

Sei Selina - Only When You’re Asleep

Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar 

Silja Dyngeland / Silja Sol - Stemning (DC#27) / Løgneren / Skrubbsår

Silvana Estrada - Lo Sagrado (album)

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U

Slayer (mentioned as an artist she likes)

Solå (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)Sondre Lerche - Why Would I Let You Go / Wrecking Ball (cover) / Palindromes / Sentimentalist / Lucifer / Bad Law / Patience/ I Love You Because It's True

Strange Hellos (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

Stromae - L’enfer

Sufjan Stevens (mentioned as an artist she was excited to see at Panorama NYC festival 2016)

Susanne Sundfør - Silencer / White Foxes

Sushi x Kobe (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

System of a Down -  Violent Pornography

Tame Impala - Let It Happen

The Prodigy -  Voodoo People / Smack My Bitch Up

The Secret Sisters - Tomorrow Will Be Kinder

Thomas Newman - American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score

Tigran Hamasyan + Arve Henriksen + Eivind Aarset + Jan Bang - Hoy, Nazan / Holy

Tool - Aenema

Underworld (mentioned as an artist she’d collaborate with) - Born Slippy / Rez / To Heal / 1992-2012 (album she would put it at a rave party as a DJ) / Born Slippy (mentioned as the song that she listened to the most when she first started driving)

Vilde Tuv - Cellevevet / Det blåser ingen vinder inni huset

Wardruna - Yggdrasil (album) / Runaljod - Ragnarok (album) / Fehu / Algir-Tognatale

WDSTCK - Flowers

Wim Mertens - Iris

Wintergatan - Sommarfågel

Woodkid - Iron

Wolf Alice - How Can I Make It Ok?

The XX - Intro

Young Dreams (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)

And overall music without words like soundtracks, movie pieces or classical music

Sources (in no particular order and some might be missing as I’ve been working on that since February 2021):

“Aurora feirer Grieg” on NRK 2018, i-D interview “city guide: bergen with aurora”, INDIE mag interview “BLESSING OUR EARS WITH AURORA’S DEBUT ALBUM” 2016, Records In My Life (interview 2016), 2014 interview for GAFFA, Auto-Tune Interview for DIFFUS 2019, Aurora guest programs Rage 2019, NRK radio show “AURORA Up Close” 2017, “Like A Bird In The Night: Clash Meets Aurora” 2019 interview, Spotify Greenroom Wrapped 2021 With AURORA and Sub Urban, Mixtape with the songs for Kzradio, #TBT Mixtape for Billboard, 2016 Artist Survey: AURORA for Under the Radar, Records In My Life (2019 Interview), Nordic Playlist #83, Nine Songs: AURORA for The Line of Best Fit 2019, NPR’s Guest DJ: AURORA On Her Love Of Heavy Metal And Leonard Cohen 2016, IG story from March 2020, IG story from September 2021, Interview - Panorama NYC 2016, Tweet from 2016, Spotify's music & talk show 10 Songs That Made Me 2021, Playlist for Weibo 2022, Interview for NRK 2014, Interview with Jamie Taylor 2016, Playful Playlist for i-D 2022, Midnight Mixtape for Deezer 2021, Daydreaming playlist for HIGHJINKX 2021, ChillDaBeats #038 2021, AURORA’s official SoundCloud channel, NRK P3 - Plateprat (record talk) 2017

Special thanks to Amroth for the support and additional resources provided! 🖤

[handeaux]

Here Are 17 Uncommon Curiosities Reportedly Found In The Ohio River

The Queen City, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote, sits “in her garlands dressed, on the banks of the Beautiful River.” Once claimed by the French and named by them exactly that: La Belle Riviere, the Ohio has been the soul and foundation of our city ever since the first houses went up, but our Beautiful River has also proved to be a weird and moody companion, coughing up a bizarre miscellany from time to time.

Alligators In 1879, Dr. A. Jackson Howe procured a live, three-foot long alligator for display at the museum of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. The reptile had been captured on the Covington shore, while several others were spotted frolicking in the Ohio River among some empty coal barges. Three years later, John Thornton found an alligator sleeping beneath the floorboards of his Newport icehouse. Charles Pitts of Covington lassoed a three-and-a-half-foot alligator from the Ohio River at the foot of Covington’s Main Street in 1870.

Bodies, Lots Of Bodies Almost from the time Cincinnati was first settled bodies have been recovered from the Ohio River including suicides, victims of foul play and accidental drownings. Among the earliest casualties was Francis Kennedy, who operated the first ferry between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and who drowned while hauling beef cattle to Fort Washington. Over the years, the old newspapers printed hundreds of inquest reports, often directed toward ascertaining the identities of bodies found overnight.

Catfish Of Unusual Size The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of 3 February 1849 reports that Frederick Diserens, proprietor of the William Tell restaurant, and Colonel Josiah J. Stratton of the Fire Department, had shipped a “mammoth cat fish” to the Exchange Hotel in Philadelphia. The leviathan, caught in the Ohio River at Cincinnati, measured five feet, ten inches in length and tipped the scales at 158 pounds. Prior to its shipment east, the beast hung outside Diserens’ establishment on the south side of what is now Government Square. In 2009, two fishermen landed a blue catfish measuring four feet, six inches long and weighing 96 pounds within view of downtown Cincinnati.

Chemical “Slug” The Ohio River, lined with heavily fertilized farmland and a multitude of manufacturing plants, is regularly listed as among the most polluted streams in America. Residents of a certain age will recall the great carbon tetrachloride “slug” of 1977. When a tank full of toxic “carbon tet” ruptured at the FMC Corporation facility in February of that year, it released 5000 to 6000 pounds into the Ohio River as a 50- to 60-mile “slug” of highly polluted liquid. Water purification systems up and down the river shut off intake valves until the “slug” passed.

Elephant Bathing All of Cincinnati – and Covington, too – turned out on the morning of 9 August 1860 to watch an elephant swim across the Ohio River. The elephant was Lalla Rookh, star of the Dan Rice Circus. Lalla Rookh had been, for the past decade, a highlight of Dan Rice's big-top extravaganzas. Billed as the “Pachyderm Princess,” she was famous for her tightrope act and she also danced, rang bells and fired a pistol. She was a huge draw and, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, brought out a good crowd for her river bath, estimated between 15,000 and 20,000

Ghosts No one ever solved the 1890 murder of Billy Fee, who was knifed and shot on the banks of the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. Almost a year later a young man traveling by boat up the river past the murder scene cried out that he could see shadows on the darkened waters vividly recreating the murder scene. For years, residents of Lawrenceburg venturing near the river at night reported visions of the dreadful crime, accompanied by the sounds of shrieks and gunshots.

Giant Snakes On 11 August 1849, a Clermont County “man of respectability” named John Wait swore to an affidavit in which he claimed to have seen a snake more than 30 feet in length on the banks of Hartman’s mill pond. A posse was assembled and searched all over for the beast with no results, even after draining the mill pond. Sightings, however, continued for the next decade. In 1858, the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune reported that the dam at Hartman’s mill had been badly damaged by a flood and the snake was assumed to have escaped toward the Ohio River. According to a 1940 article in the Cincinnati Post, the Cincinnati Zoo offered to help citizens near Gallipolis locate a snake estimated at 35 feet in length. Coincidence?

Green Clawed Beast It was a sultry afternoon on 14 August 1955 when Naomi Johnson and some friends headed to the Ohio River at Evansville for a refreshing dip. While swimming just 15 feet offshore, something swam up behind Mrs. Johnson and grabbed her leg. She felt claws scratch her leg as the thing pulled her under the water. She began kicking her assailant and was pulled under a second time before her friends lifted her out of the river. Her left leg was extensively lacerated and bruised, with one mark distinctly hand-shaped. Mrs. Johnson claimed to have seen a UFO just before she was attacked, and there were several UFO sightings in the Evansville area around the time of the incident, leading her to believe an extraterrestrial origin for her attacker.

Kentucky Border For most of our region’s history, the entire Ohio River belonged exclusively to Kentucky. That all changed on 21 January 1980, when the United States Supreme Court fixed the border between Ohio and Kentucky at the low-water mark of the river in 1792. With two centuries of dam construction and other navigational improvements, the Ohio River is significantly deeper and wider than it was in the 1790s. The border is now, in some cases, hundreds of feet off the Ohio shore.

Madonna’s Yacht Rusting away in an Ohio River tributary just 25 miles downriver from Cincinnati is a 186-foot yacht originally known as the Celt but probably most famous as the USS Sachem among a variety of names acquired over its 120-year history. Thomas Edison used it for anti-submarine research. It ran out of New York as a recreational fishing vessel and served as a coastal patrol ship during World War II. After the war it hauled tourists around Manhattan. Robert Miller of Finneytown bought the yacht for $7500 in the 1980s and rented it out to Madonna, who filmed part of her “Papa Don’t Preach” video onboard. Miller hauled it upriver to its current resting place shortly after sailing a boatload of friends around the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986.

Man Afloat On 11 March 1879, a crowd of fifteen thousand swarmed the riverfront to catch a glimpse of the “Fearless Frogman,” Captain Paul Boynton, as he arrived in Cincinnati while floating from Pittsburgh to Cairo in a buoyant rubber suit. Outfitted with sails and oars, Boynton’s “peculiar life-saving dress” allowed him to maintain speeds of five or six miles per hour on his downriver odyssey. That night, he attended a performance at the Grand Opera House on Vine Street and, being recognized, was called to the stage and compelled to give a speech.

Mud Mermaids The Cincinnati Enquirer of 6 September 1894 reported two “nondescript creatures, horrible in appearance and strange in habits” at a sand bar in the Ohio River near Vevay, Indiana. The creatures appeared to be carnivorous, dining on fish and mussels plucked from the river. They were described as being yellowish in color, about five feet long, with webbed and clawed hands and feet. Their hairless heads had sharply pointed ears standing straight up. In the years since, the Vevay beings have been dubbed “Mud Mermaids.”

Octoman Police dispatchers along both sides of the Ohio River were swamped with frantic calls from late January to early February 1959 as dozens of residents and travelers reported strange creatures emerging from the depths. Sightings were recorded from New Richmond to the Licking River bridge. One witness compared the critter to an octopus while others said it looked like an immense human, leading to the nickname Octoman. Panic spread, with one 11-year-old boy calling the Cincinnati Post to confirm his teacher’s story that green men were clambering out of the river in platoons of twelve. To add to the mystery, all the streetlights along Kellogg Avenue from Lunken Airport to Coney Island extinguished as the first reports came in. After a week, sightings abated and Octoman seemingly disappeared.

Petroglyphs Just as the Ohio River slips across the state line from Pennsylvania, at the junction with Little Beaver Creek at East Liverpool, it covers a vast array of submerged designs carved into the rock. First recognized by French explorers in 1755, the display has been largely immersed in a much deeper river, only occasionally emerging into visibility in times of extreme drought. Hundreds of these Native American carvings were found for about 10 miles along the Ohio River from Midland, Pennsylvania through Wellsville, Ohio. The origin or date of the petroglyphs remains unknown and will likely never be determined.

Sea Lion In May 1962 several people reported a strange beast frolicking in the Ohio River near the Fernbank locks. The animal was not large; maybe three feet in length, but it was unlike anything naturally associated with the wildlife of the area. An expedition organized by the Cincinnati Zoo discovered that the mysterious visitor was a sea lion named “Playful George” that had escaped from a menagerie in Huntington, West Virginia and made its way nearly 200 miles downriver to the Markland Dam. George was captured and quarantined at the Zoo before returning home.

Sea Serpents In the dim, pre-dawn light of Friday, 11 January 1878, Ben Karrick was driving his horse-drawn delivery wagon over the Roebling Suspension Bridge when he saw a most unusual sight in the Ohio River below – a sea serpent. He told the Cincinnati Gazette that the creature’s serpentine head protruded from the water some twelve or fifteen feet and it lashed the water into foam with its tail. Karrick told the newspaper that the beast made a noise similar to the deep lowing of a cow, interspersed with a loud hissing noise. A day previously, John Davidson, master of the Silver Moon steamboat, saw a nearly identical monster while docked at Vevay, Indiana. In July 1893, pleasure boaters near Blennerhassett Island saw “a monstrous submarine animal or serpent, with an immense head and staring, bulbous eyes” gliding alongside their boat. The witnesses estimated the critter at more than 10 feet in length.

Underwater Pedestrian Newspapers around the nation carried the news in July 1878 that Captain John T. Guire, identified as “the celebrated submarine diver,” had entered into a wager that he would walk from Cincinnati to Cairo on the bottom of the Ohio River. Guire’s previous exploits in the Mississippi River at Saint Louis were cited as proof of his skill and determination. Although it was noted that Guire engaged in practice strolls near Cincinnati, it does not appear that the 500-mile underwater hike to Cairo ever materialized.

[arizonabowl]

༄ Mermaid! Reader x ngnl headcanons ༄

Tet!

- teto/tet le dieu du monde de disboard à un faible pour les sirènes c'est l'une de ces créations préférées

- il te donne des surnoms comme "ma sirène" ou "Nymphe"

- lorsque que vous vous voyez teto/tet te regarde comme si c'était ma première fois que vous vous voyez pour admirer t'a beauté

- t'es écailles sont comme des pièces rare exposées au musée il adore les toucher et sentir la textures mouillés de ta peau rempli d'écailles

- vous vous donnez rendez-vous à un endroit près d'un lac à chaque fois que vous avez envie de vous voir

- il adore tes cuisses quand tu n'a pas t'a queue de sirènes parce qu'il y a des petites écailles au dessus de t'es cuisses

- "je pensais pas qu'une Nymphe comme toi pourrait me rendre fou à ce point..tu est trop belle.."

- quand tu sors de l'eau tu as des étourdissements à certain moment c'est pour ça que tet/teto a toujours une bouteille d'eau sur lui pour que tu reste hydrater

- "MA SIRÈNE?! TU VA BIEN ?"

"Arrête de paniquer teto..je vais bien"

- tet/teto a l'habitude de se balader dans les airs (il assume pas mais si il se balade dans les airs c'est surtout pour essayer de te repérer et t'observer de loin)

- quand tu n'arrive pas à dormir tet/teto fait tout pour que tu t'endorme dans ces bras

- ou alors quand tu n'arrive pas à dormir tet/teto te porte dans ces bras et fais une balade aériennes sous les étoiles et en général cette technique marche plutôt bien..

- "fais attention à toi petite sirène..j'aime bien manger du poisson tu sais ?"

- "moi j'aime manger des humains."

- "c'est un raccourci pour dire que t'a envie de me manger ?"

- "a toi de le comprendre à ta façon.."

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Shiro!

- shiro ne savait pas l'existence des sirènes jusqu'à ce qu'elle te voit..

- fasciner par ton apparence elle lit des livres qui parlent de sirènes et plus d'informations sur elles

- elle adore la sensation de t'a peau sous ces doigts "si douce..c'est quoi ton secret ?"

- les écailles sur tes joues sont probablement l'emplacement des écailles sur ton corps qu'elle préfère

- elle adore poser sa tête sur t'a queue en guise de coussin pour qu'ensuite tu lui caresse et joue avec ses cheveux

- sora est jaloux à chaque fois qu'il te voit avec shiro parce que lui aussi aurait aimé une belle sirène comme toi qui pourrait lui caressé les cheveux

- elle fait souvent des belles tresses avec t'es cheveux puis rajoute des coquillages pour faire des petites barrettes

- c'est toujours dans une petite grotte que vous vous retrouvez pour discuter et pour montrer votre affection l'une en vers l'autre

- quand elle n'arrive pas à dormir elle t'appelle tout le temps pour que reste avec elle

- "raconte moi tes activités..je sais que tu n'a probablement rien à dire sachant qu'il est tard mais..entendre t'a voix m'aide à dormir alors au moins..parle de tout et de rien s'il te plaît ?"

- quand c'est toi qui n'arrive pas à dormir elle vien dans la grotte en cachette puis vien s'asseoir au bord du lac pour que tu puisse allonger t'a tête sur ses genoux et une fois que tu est bien installée elle fais des mouvements doux dans tes cheveux pour t'aider à t'endormir..

- elle fredonne l'une de ses chanson préférée pendant qu'elle te caresse la tête

- "merci votre altesse.."

"s'il te plait appelle moi shiro.."

"merci shiro.."

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Sora!

- il t'aime comme pas possible.

- la première fois que vous vous êtes vu il a rougis en observant ton corps rempli d'écailles

- ça va sûrement paraître étrange mais il adore des palmes et t'es mains "c'est marrant on dirait un canard :^"

- il adore placer des baisers sur la paume de t'es mains

- quand tu est dans ta forme humaine et que tu prend un bain dans leur château bien évidemment il ne te regarde pas pour respecter ton intimité mais il rougit tellement qu'un jour il a saigné du nez

- il te prête souvent ses habits pour que ton odeur reste dans ces vêtements

- il est souvent stressé à cause des responsabilités d'être le nouveau roi d'imanity alors souvent il te demande de venir dans sa chambre puis s'allonge sur toi pour se détendre

- il a tendance à oublié que tu est une sirène et que tu a besoin d'eau, alors quand t'a peau devient pâle de ton manque d'eau il se met à paniquer et te donne un verre d'eau

"je suis trop con j'avais oublié que tu avais besoin de t'hydrater..je suis désolé"

"c'est pas grave ne t'inquiète pas je vais bien"

- un jour il t'a léché la main pour savoir si t'avais un goût salé..(je vous jure il serait capable de faire ça-)

- il aime te brosser les cheveux et souvent il te fait des compliments comme "t'es cheveux sont magnifiques.." ou alors "t'a les cheveux de raiponce ou quoi-?"

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J'espère que sa vous a plus et j'essayerai de faire une partie 2 !

[kmp78]

Fuck me. One called "Beauty Tet" one called "Princess" 🤣🤣😅 Both fucking rank. Princess looks like she was picked up on a street corner of Bangkok.

They do serve a purpose when we keep in mind that La Principessa MUST ALWAYS BE the prettiest princess in his her relationships. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[hopquatetdoanhnghiep]

Bia biếu Tết bia nhập khẩu cao cấp chính hãng

Tết là dịp mọi người sum họp, đoàn viên và trao nhau những món quà đặc biệt đầy ý nghĩa. Ngày nay, khi đời sống ngày càng phát triển, những hộp quà bia nhập khẩu cao cấp, vừa sang trọng, lịch sự vừa thơm ngon, bổ dưỡng chắc chắn là sự lựa chọn hoàn hảo cho dịp Tết. Tuy nhiên, sự đa dạng về mẫu mã, chủng loại và giá cả có thể khiến người mua như lạc vào mê cung sản phẩm.

Tại sao hộp quà bia nhập khẩu lại được ưa chuộng?

Chất lượng vượt trội

Các sản phẩm bia nhập khẩu có chất lượng cao, hương vị đậm đà, tươi mát, khác biệt so với các loại đồ uống có cồn thông thường trong nước. Một khi đã thưởng thức bia nhập khẩu, bạn sẽ không thể quên được hương vị đặc biệt của nó, làm món quà của bạn trở nên nổi bật và đáng nhớ.

Phù hợp với khẩu vị số đông

Bia dễ uống hơn nhiều so với whiskey hay rượu vang, không quá nặng hoặc quá chát. Hầu hết người tiêu dùng Việt Nam đều có thể uống bia trong nhiều dịp, từ bữa ăn hàng ngày đến tiệc tùng hay tiếp khách ngày Tết. Bia nhập khẩu cũng có hương vị quen thuộc, dễ dàng được ưa thích ngay từ lần đầu thưởng thức.

Hợp với các món ăn Việt

Kết hợp rượu vang với ẩm thực Việt có thể phức tạp, nhưng bia lại dễ dàng hòa hợp với mọi món ăn. Bia cân bằng được các hương vị đậm đà, nhiều dầu mỡ của ẩm thực Việt, giúp bữa ăn trở nên ngon miệng hơn mà không gây ngán.

Thiết kế sang trọng, lịch sự

Các hộp quà bia nhập khẩu thường có thiết kế đẹp mắt, sang trọng, với nhiều kiểu dáng độc đáo như bom 5 lít, chai bia 3 lít, chai sứ, tạo ấn tượng mạnh mẽ. Một món quà tinh tế như vậy chắc chắn sẽ được đón nhận nồng nhiệt.

Giá cả phải chăng

So với các mặt hàng nhập khẩu cao cấp khác, giá bia nhập khẩu khá hợp lý. Dù giá cả phải chăng, bia nhập khẩu vẫn đảm bảo chất lượng vượt trội, dễ bảo quản và có giá trị sử dụng cao.

Những loại hộp quà bia ngoại tiêu biểu

Trên thị trường có nhiều loại hộp quà bia nhập khẩu cao cấp từ Đức, Bỉ, Hà Lan. Các dòng bia cao cấp như bia sứ, bia thầy tu (Chimay, La Trappe, Jopen) và bia Đức (Sanwald, Dinkelacker, Das Schwarz, Das Weizen) là những lựa chọn tuyệt vời. Các hộp quà bia lon có giá thành phải chăng hơn, dung tích lớn, dễ tái chế cũng rất được ưa chuộng. Đặc biệt, các loại bia nặng độ cũng được yêu thích vì độc đáo và phù hợp với những người thích đồ uống đậm đà.

Hãy để những hộp quà bia nhập khẩu cao cấp trở thành món quà tuyệt vời trong dịp Tết, mang lại niềm vui và sự trân trọng đến những người thân yêu của bạn.

Xem thêm: https://quatetdn.blogspot.com/2024/05/qua-tang-tet-bia-nhap-khau.html

[beehunni62]

Vietnamese paintings from Vietnamese-French artists Lê Phổ (1907-2001) and Mai Trung Thứ (1906-1980)

Vietnamese lady 越南女士. Lê Phổ. Ink and gouache on silk. ca. 1938. Important Private American Collection. Sotheby’s [image source].

Idylle (Idyll). Lê Phổ. Ink and gouache on silk. c.a. 1940s. Private Collection, France. Christie’s [image source].

Portrait de jeune femme à la branche de lotus. (Portrait of a young woman with a lotus branch). Lê Phổ. Ink and gouache on silk laid on board, 1939. Private Collection, USA. Sotheby’s [image source].

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"Trong dam gi dep bang sen

Lá xanh bông trang lai chen nhi vang

Nhi vang, bông trang, lá xanh

Gan bun mà chang hôi tanh mui bun.”

— Một bài thơ truyền thống Việt Nam

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"In a pond, what is more beautiful than a lotus,

Green leaves and white petals surround yellow stamens.

Oh, yellow stamens, white petals, and green leaves,

Though near mud you grew, your smell is still perfumed”

— A Vietnamese traditional poem

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Harmonie verte: Les deux sœurs (Harmony in Green: The Two Sisters). Lê Phổ. Gouache on silk, 1938. Collection of National Gallery Singapore, Singapore [image source].

Jeune fille en blanc (Young Girl in White). Lê Phổ. Gouache on silk, c.a. 1931-1932. Christie’s [image source].

Maternité (Motherhood). Lê Phổ. Ink and color on silk, 1940. Private Collection, Paris. Aguttes [image source].

Grand-mère (Grandmother). Mai Trung Thứ. Ink and gouache on silk mounted on cardboard, 1944. Private Collection, Spain. Sotheby’s [image source].

L'Heure du thé (Tea Time). Mai Trung Thứ. Ink and gouache on silk, 1945. Invaluable [image source].

A l'approche du tet (As Tet Approaches). Lê Phổ. Ink and color on silk [image source].

Note: the word “tet (Tết)” is short for Tết Nguyên Đán (“Festival of the First Day of the Year”). It’s the most sacred festival for the Vietnamese. It’s the Lunar New Year in the Vietnamese calendar. It celebrates the arrival of Spring which falls between January and February in the Gregorian calendar.

[pascal-et-sarah]

Un peu de nourriture pour changer. Dans l’ordre

- la France bien représentées parmi les cadeaux à offrir pour la fête du Tet 🥳🇻🇳

- un très bon sushi qu’on vient de découvrir 🍱🍣

- les trois suivantes sont d’un restaurant de Hong-Kong (riz sauté, aubergines tso et vin de riz maison)

[mappingthemoon]

Music 2023

Top Artists:

Funki Porcini

Ludacris

Leyla McCalla

The Black Heart Procession

Dengue Dengue Dengue!

Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様

Quintron

Portugal. The Man

Top Albums:

The Black Heart Procession - Amore del Tropico

The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time

Dengue Dengue Dengue! - La Alianza Profana

Hagop Tchaparian - Bolts

Four Tet - Parallel

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Biluka y Los Canibales - Leaf-Playing in Quito, 1960-1965

Billie Holiday - Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday

Top Tracks:

Gorillaz - "O Green World"

Portugal. The Man - "What, Me Worry?"

Freezepop - "Brainpower"

The Black Heart Procession - "Did You Wonder"

Har Mar Superstar - "We Don’t Sleep"

Dengue Dengue Dengue! - "Simiolo"

Bakermat - "Partystarter"

Kula Shaker - "Great Hosannah"