13 setembro 2015
A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery -- it was behind the Moon. Featured here is one of the more interesting images taken of a partial solar eclipse that occurred in 2012, capturing a temporarily crescent Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill. The image was taken about 20 miles west of Sundown, Texas, USA, just after the ring of fire effect was broken by the Moon moving away from the center of the Sun. Today a new partial solar eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Earth. Unfortunately for people who live in Texas, today's eclipse can only be seen from southern Africa and Antarctica.
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8 images of pluto, photographed by new horizons, 13th july...
8 images of pluto, photographed by new horizons, 13th july 2015.
i believe this is the side of pluto that faces away from charon, the dwarf planet’s largest moon.
image credit: nasa/jpl/swri. animation: ageofdestruction.
ageThe Most Famous Viking Battle In History
Some of my favorite (incorrect) answers:
aethersea answered: the one where sweden walked across the sea to denmark? that’s more a fun anecdote than anything, but it was cool
brutoll reblogged this and added: Is it Rollo/Ralf sacking Paris, France in one day?(unlike the recount on the TV show, Vikings, the attack was lead by Rollo and they were completely successful)
detective-inspector-sidonius answered: Lindisfarne. Or perhaps Stamford Bridge. Lindisfarne wasn’t a battle so much as a beat-down of defenseless monks, but it did mark the beginning of Viking expansion and raids into non-Scandanavian territories
istorophile-extraordinaire answered: The Great Ikea Wars, Battle of the Food Court. Swedish huskarls managed to secure the meatballs but couldn’t get the sauce before being repelled by the store employees
its-a-geek-haven answered: Battle of Hastings,14 October 1066 Really important for England, but not famous in the Norse chronicles as a defining moment of bravery and epicness
ranklax answered: Swold/Oresund? The one where Norway stopped existing as a kingdom
Congrats! Ranklax wins bragging rights!
A buddhist priest’s crown, from Nepal around the 1200s.
A buddhist priest’s crown, from Nepal around the 1200s.
FREE ON KINDLE TODAY! (13th...
FREE ON KINDLE TODAY! (13th September)
A fascinating account of phobias, sentiments and obsessions occurring in the course of neuroses, The Fear of Action was originally presented as a paper by Pierre Janet at the Atlantic City meeting of the American Psychopathological Society in June, 1921.
September 13th 1501: Michelangelo begins on ‘David’On this day...
Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)
Michelangelo's David
September 13th 1501: Michelangelo begins on ‘David’
On this day in 1501, Italian sculptor Michelangelo began work on his statue of David. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in 1475, and at a young age was apprenticed to a notable painter in Florence. He ingratiated himself with the prominent Florentine Medici family, known for their support of the arts, eventually living in the household of patriarch Lorenzo de’ Medici. Michelangelo then traveled Italy, living in Bologna and Rome, all the while perfecting his sculpture work. His ‘Pietà’ in 1497 cemented his fame, and when back in Florence in the first years of the sixteenth-century he produced his masterpiece - ‘David’. Florence’s rulers requested Michelangelo create a statue of the biblical hero portraying him as a symbol of Florentine freedom. Michelangelo crafted the statue out of marble, and spent two years working on the large statue, which was unveiled in September 1504. Between 1508 and 1512 Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, which catapulted him to fame as one of Italy’s most renowned artists. Michelangelo’s ‘David’ is on display in The Gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where the iconic statue attracts thousands of visitors.
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