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24 janeiro 2015
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"A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are for."
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”
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Light from Cygnus A
Celebrating astronomy in this International Year of Light, the detailed image reveals spectacular active galaxy Cygnus A in light across the electromagnetic spectrum. Incorporating X-ray data (blue) from the orbiting Chandra Observatory, Cygnus A is seen to be a prodigious source of high energy x-rays. But it is actually more famous at the low energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum. One of the brightest celestial sources visible to radio telescopes, at 600 million light-years distant Cygnus A is the closest powerful radio galaxy. Radio emission (red) extends to either side along the same axis for nearly 300,000 light-years powered by jets of relativistic particles emanating from the galaxy's central supermassive black hole. Hot spots likely mark the ends of the jets impacting surrounding cool, dense material. Confined to yellow hues, optical wavelength data of the galaxy from Hubble and the surrounding field in the Digital Sky Survey complete a remarkable multiwavelength view.
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Os treze degraus para o Inferno
Segundo relatos, os treze degraus para o Inferno localizam-se no cemitério de Maltby, em Washington. Conta-se que havia uma escada que começava a nível do solo e descia para a terra. Dizem que os degraus eram de baixo da entrada para a tumba de uma família rica que morou no local. Segundo a lenda, era necessário que alguém fosse ao cemitério à noite e descer esses 13 degraus. Ao descer as escadas, não era possível ouvir nada. Se alguém chegasse até ao fim da escada e virasse a cara, seria confrontado por uma visão do Inferno. Dizem que a visão leva as pessoas à loucura. Segundo alguns relatos, várias crianças ficaram quase em coma depois da prática do ritual e muitas delas nunca disseram uma única palavra sobre o assunto.
Os 13 degraus já não existem. Partindo do que a história conta, os degraus foram demolidos ou preenchidos com cimento há muitos anos atrás, depois de causarem muitos problemas. Desde então, têm havido invasões no cemitério e até mesmo rumores de pessoas que fazem expedições durante a noite no cemitério Maltby, armados com pás, na esperança de descobrir os 13 degraus para o inferno.
Aqui estão dois relatos de pessoas que passaram pelo ritual:
"A minha namorada e eu queriamos vê-los por nós mesmos. Depois de descer esses treze degraus verás uma pequena cadeira. Se te sentares nela, significa que vendeste a tua alma ao Diabo. Parece realmente assustador. Eu estava na igreja com um amigo meu e o reverendo disse que foi lá quando tinha 16 anos e foi a pior experiência da sua vida."
"Eu e os meus amigos agrupámo-nos e fomos para o cemitério de Maltby. Temos a certeza que chegámos lá muito perto da meia-noite. Após cerca de uma hora à deriva pelo escuro, nós finalmente encontrámos os 13 degraus. À luz do luar, não era possível ver o fundo. Tentámos usar uma lanterna e ainda não conseguíamos vê-lo. Foi assustador e uma das raparigas que veio connosco ficou tão assustada que não conseguiu sequer olhar para baixo da escada. Eu decidi que iria descer os degraus, mas quando desci os dois primeiros, comecei a sentir-me mal.
Após os dois degraus seguintes, senti-me tonta. Quando cheguei ao sexto degrau, estava tão frio que mal podia respirar e até ouvi gritos abafados e gemidos. Eu não fui mais longe. Quando me virei para subir, eu senti algo a empurrar-me pelas costas e não consegui ver o lado de fora, nem os meus amigos claramente. Quando finalmente cheguei ao topo da escada, eu ouvi gritos e percebi que eram deles.
Eles estavam a gritar porque não voltaram a ver-me depois de eu ter descido as escadas. Eu estava a apenas seis passos de profundidade. Eu não poderia ter ficado imperceptível à vista dos meus companheiros depois de ter passado apenas por metade dos degraus. .Nós estávamos completamente apavorados e saímos de lá o mais rápido possível. Hoje em dia, de vez em quando, sonho que estou sobre os 13 passos que conduzem ao Inferno e acordo sempre suada e assustada."
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No Tibetan Goddess Post Yet
Hi everyone,
I am very sorry, that short post from last night on Kurukulla was supposed to go up this evening — yesterday’s “extra” post on historical-nonfiction.com was on Incan chicha beer and how it was integrated into their agricultural economy.
Tonight there will be the post on the Tibetan goddess Kurukulla though, I promise!
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January 24th 41 AD: Caligula killed
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January 24, 1848: The California Gold Rush Begins James...
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James Marshall, a carpenter, discovered gold in the American river in California on this day in 1848. The resulting “gold rush” attracted approximately 300,000 people looking to make their fortune.
With fewer women in the population, men cooked for themselves with limited options. Check out PBS Food’s latest History Kitchen blog post to find out what forty-niners ate during the California’s gold rush.
Photo: A forty-niner peers into the slit of California’s American River, 1850 (Wikimedia Commons).
ON THIS DAY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY (24th January...
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