about a girl.

day-breaking: (via littleteaspoon)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:24:56 +0800

do you ever

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:45:17 +0800

feel like you are suffocating?

like, if you don’t do something, or go somewhere, if you don’t get out, you’ll go crazy?

This happens to me more than I’d like to admit. I’m restless, I hate staying in one place, I hate how everything seems to be so normal and routine and mundane…. its not a feeling I like, but I don’t know how to get rid of it.

Maybe I have to move? Maybe I need to lose weight? or do something daring… Maybe I need to shake up my world a little bit, do something out of character, because I feel like if I don’t I might just completely, and utterly lose it.

This pretty much describes my daily life.

The Basilica del Pilar in Zaragoza, Spain is dedicated to Our...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:19:01 +0800

The Basilica del Pilar in Zaragoza, Spain is dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar, the patron saint of Spain, who is said to have appeared to St. James in the 40 AD and gave him a small wooden statue and a column of jasper and instructed him to build a church in her honor. The statue atop the pillar is present in the church to this day. Amazingly, during the Spanish Civil War, three bombs were dropped on the church, none of which exploded. The architecture is of baroque style, and the present building was predominantly built between 1681 and 1872.

Myth: Einstein failed math at school. This is a surprisingly old...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:10:23 +0800

Myth: Einstein failed math at school.

This is a surprisingly old error which everyone seems to believe. Its origins seem to be a 1935 article in the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Magazine in which the myth first appears in print under the heading “Greatest Living Mathematician Failed in Mathematics.” Many failing students probably take heart in the myth thinking that there may be hope for them if Einstein could flunk math and still become a genius, but unfortunately for them, Einstein showed genius from a very young age – including in the field of mathematics. When he was shown the article from the magazine, Einstein laughed and said, “I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.”

Interesting Fact: In 1905, during his spare time, Einstein produced four papers that upended physics. The first showed that light could be conceived as particles as well as waves. The second proved the existence of atoms and molecules. The third, the special theory of relativity, said that there was no such thing as absolute time or space. And the fourth noted an equivalence between energy and mass described by the most famous equation in all of physics, E=mc² .

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Fact: Martin Luther was an anti-semite. Martin Luther, the...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:57:44 +0800

Fact: Martin Luther was an anti-semite.

Martin Luther, the famous monk who started the protestant reformation, is often touted as a hero for standing up against excesses in the Catholic Church at the time, but what most people don’t know is that he was violently anti-Jewish and he made no secret of it. In 1543, he wrote On The Jews And Their Lies, in which he recommends that Jews be deprived of money, civil rights, religious teaching, and education, and that they be forced to labor on the land, or else be expelled from Germany and possibly killed (sound like someone familiar from more recent times?) He referred to the Jews as a “base, whoringpeople, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth.” He said that Jews were “full of the devil’s feces … which they wallow in like swine,” and the synagogue is an “incorrigible whore and an evil slut .” He argues that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness, afforded no legal protection, and these “poisonous envenomed worms” should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time. He also seems to advocate their murder, writing “[w]e are at fault in not slaying them.”

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Product name fail.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:11:00 +0800

Product name fail.

In the late 1700s, a tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:06:25 +0800

In the late 1700s, a tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.

In Ancient Egypt, cats were considered sacred. When a family pet cat died, the entire family would shave off their eyebrows and remain in mourning until they had grown back.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:03:41 +0800

During the plague in the Middle Ages, some doctors wore a...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:01:03 +0800

During the plague in the Middle Ages, some doctors wore a primitive form of biohazard suit called “plague suits”. The mask included red glass eyepieces, which were thought to make the wearer impervious to evil. The beak of the mask was often filled with strongly aromatic herbs and spices to overpower the miasmas or “bad air” which was also thought to carry the plague.

Most icebergs are salt-free water caused by mainland glaciers....

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:54:00 +0800

Most icebergs are salt-free water caused by mainland glaciers. Some sea-water icebergs do exist – they are green. When an iceberg picks up sea-water, it can create green stripes. Additionally, normal water that freezes more rapidly in the iceberg can cause blue stripes.

day-breaking: (via ache)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:42:44 +0800

day-breaking: (via ache)

David Prowse, a weightlifter from Bristol, played the role of...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:17:47 +0800

David Prowse, a weightlifter from Bristol, played the role of Darth Vader on screen but the voice was that of James Earl Jones. He was so convinced the film would be a flop, he refused to allow his name in the original credits.

The upright jerker was an execution method and device...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:06:24 +0800

The upright jerker was an execution method and device intermittently used in the United States during the 19th and early 20th century. Intended to replace hangings, the upright jerker did not see widespread use. As in a hanging, a cord would be wrapped around the neck of the condemned. However, rather than dropping down through a trapdoor, the condemned would be violently jerked into the air by means of a system of weights and pulleys. The objective of thisexecution method was to provide a swift death by breaking the condemned’s neck. Executions of this type took place in several U.S. states, notably Connecticut where amongst others the “Count of Gramercy Park”, murderer and gang member Gerald Chapman was put to death by the method. The upright jerker was never very efficient at breaking the condemned’s neck and was withdrawn from use by the 1930s. A version of the “upright jerker” is used forcapital punishment in Iran (a nation which seems hellbent on using every revolting method of execution conceived). Iran uses a crane to jerk the noose upward violently.

Standing there by the broken tree, Her hands were all twisted, she was pointing at me. I was damned...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:50:13 +0800

Standing there by the broken tree,
Her hands were all twisted, she was pointing at me.
I was damned by the light coming out of her eyes.
She spoke with a voice that disrupted the sky.
She said, “Walk on over yeah to the bit of shade,
I will wrap you in my arms and you’ll know you’ve been saved.”
Let me sign, can’t fight the devil so just let me sign.

Although liquids freeze and evaporate quickly into the thin...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:43:33 +0800

Although liquids freeze and evaporate quickly into the thin atmosphere of Mars, persistent winds may make large sand dunes appear to flow and even drip like a liquid. Visible on the above image right are two flat top mesas in southern Mars, where the season is changing from Spring to Summer.

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This stunning image of Saturn was captured by the incredible...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:42:25 +0800

This stunning image of Saturn was captured by the incredible Cassini spacecraft in 2006 as it passed behind the ringed gas giant in the 9th year of its mission. Even more incredible it that the pale-blue dot of the Earth can be seen in this image just above and to the left of the bright, main rings.

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waxandmilk: Really diggin Paul’s look there with the...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:57:14 +0800

waxandmilk:

Really diggin Paul’s look there with the squared-off tie. Really though, everyone here is pretty much on their maximum swagger.

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"“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:44:17 +0800

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“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…”

”

- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via lovebot)

lovemidori: A little reminder~

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10:47 +0800

lovemidori:

A little reminder~

lovebug: noonereallywins: ispysj

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:28:32 +0800

lovebug: noonereallywins: ispysj