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Deen Dayal, Adinatha Temple at Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, 1882

Monument of Philopappos, Greece, Cornell University Library, ca. 1865-95

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia, 1533

teadrunktailor:

Speaking of Sarah, there we are at Brooks Medieval Faire this past summer (she’s on the right, I’m on the left).

Notice the fit of the two different armours? I’m riding in loaner armour that was made for a person who has roughly +70lbs on me - therefore the cuirass and rerebraces (upper arms) are too big. You can see how I can’t bring my arms in close to my body whereas Sarah can get hers in a bit better. When this angle is too big, couching the lance becomes slightly harder. It also affects your riding to a small degree - when riding properly with both hands on the reins, you want to have your elbows close to your sides and a straight line from your elbow to the bit in the horse’s mouth. When you can’t close your arms, you’ve got to improvise a bit.

TL;DR - Having armour that fits you is hella rad. On that note, I’ll write a post this weekend about the upcoming 1470s project. 

Photography by Ashley Buck

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- On a quiet street on the city's West Side is an unassuming home for sale with an unusual secret: a 2,300 piece pipe organ.

Driving down the road, you would have no idea the house contains more pipes than your average church organ. It is something that needs to be seen to believed -- or rather heard.

By the kitchen table is the pipe organ with three sets of keyboards, stacked on top of each other with foot pedals. When you turn it on, a giant blower it can be heard in the basement. The organ, however, is only the half of it.

A door in the back of the house reveals a room with hundreds of pipes of all sizes. Through another door there are even more pipes, some two-stories tall. In all, there are around 2,300 with each pipe providing a different musical note. The whole organ takes up more than one third of the house.

Realtor Mark Douglas is tasked with selling the unusual home. He posted a video of the pipe organ on Facebook which quickly spread virally.

He says Bill Tufts, the late owner of the home and the organ, recently passed away. Douglas says amazingly, "he couldn't play it, but he wanted an organ in his house so he had it put in."

"Guy VanderWageen and Don Haan of Haan Pipe Organ installed it. "He wanted a real pipe organ," explains VanderWageen. "It is something he wanted since he was a child and we got to help him fulfill that dream."

The organ was installed over five years and if it were to be built today, Haan says the price tag would be around $1,000,000.

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djempirical

Still true.

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A couple of weeks ago, a battle between good and evil took place in a wrestling ring on Manhattan's west side, when Silver Potato, a former Blockbuster video employee managled in a tinfoil-microwaving accident, fought off the minions of Dr. Cube, the mastermind of an evil kaiju cohort, who were pummeling Steam-Powered Tentacle Boulder.

Microsoft's first wearable is designed to tell you how unhealthy you are.

The NYPD's highest-ranking black official abruptly quit Friday instead of taking a new post, a surprising move that caught city officials off guard at a time when the department is trying to mend relationships with minority communities. Chief Philip Banks III was to have been named first deputy commissioner, second in command at the nation's largest police force. Commissioner William Bratton already had announced the change and Banks was to have been promoted Monday. Instead, he will retire. It wasn't clear why Banks changed his mind, and Bratton cited only "personal and professional factors." The position was seen under the previous commissioner as largely ceremonial and stripped of power. Bratton said the job had been highly important during his previous stint as commissioner in the 1990s and remains so.

This being a Nike commercial, extras received precise instructions on what kind of gear and shoes they could wear. "You could wear a Cavs shirt, but it had to be made by Nike or the NBA," said Buck. "If you weren't wearing Nike shoes, it had to be a brand where the logo didn't show. I showed up one day in a jean jacket and they had someone cover the little red Levi's tag with a piece of tape." New Cavs forward Kevin Love, who has an endorsement contract with Nike competitor Addidas, is not seen.

Instagram: "We have to keep our product and the content within it in line with our App Store’s rating for nudity and mature content."

The pic shows prospective K-9 puppy "Batman" with Patrol Officer Troy Caisey, the head trainer of the Boston Police Department’s K-9 Unit, Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog's president Kathy Hinds told The Huffington Post. The photo was taken back in May for a fundraising calendar; Batman has since been renamed "Tuco," after drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca from AMC's "Breaking Bad."

vgjunk:

Go To Hell, ZX Spectrum.

sizvideos:

Video

becausebirds:

Bird lands on a page about itself.

jessicalprice:

squid-in-a-party-hat:

wallylock:

luciawestwick:

The making of Smaug. (x)

he gets paid to do that

are you telling me cucumber man humped the ground and screamed for 2 minutes and gets a lot of money and tons of fan girls, but when i do it I’m “intoxicated” and “ruining my sister’s wedding”

Okay, the gifs were great and everything, but I’m still giggling over “cucumber man.”

themarysue:

witsradio:

Good morning.

Ghosts playing ping pong.

comicsalliance:

MARVEL COMICS IS GIVING JACK KIRBY A CREATOR CREDIT

By Chris Sims

Those of you who take a moment to read the credits pages of your weekly Marvel Comics may have noticed that there’s been a small change that started in this week’s batch: Jack Kirby is receiving a creator credit for characters and teams that he co-created.

The new credit comes only a few weeks after Marvel and the Kirby family reached an agreement that settled a lawsuit that lasted five years, just before the Supreme Court was set to announce whether it would hear the case. While the details of the settlement haven’t been released, giving Kirby a creator credit in the comics certainly seems to fit the joint statement released by both parties in September, which mentioned “advancing their shared goal of honoring Mr. Kirby’s significant role in Marvel’s history.”

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leneewashither:

spookyfluffaloforbossofmybutt:

obscurityandbeyond:

This is awesome

SHUT THE GODDAMN UP!!!!

Coooolllllll

worldofthecutestcuties:

spider spots

spaceexp:

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Source: ScottH711

You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms and in the most convenient definitions.

The officers form part of the so-called Hercules Group, a specialist unit in the nearby city of Matamoros, the scene of battles between the warring Zetas and Gulf drug cartels over the control of lucrative drug routes to the United States. The father of the victims has identified his daughter and two sons -- all in their 20s -- although the bodies were badly decomposed when found Wednesday. The three siblings were Americans of Mexican origin. They had crossed the border from Texas to visit their father. The parents had said their children were kidnapped on October 13 by armed men in the town of Control.

sachinteng:

'Athletic Genius' for NAUTILUS Magazine

Exploring cerebral prowess and which areas of the brain make great athletes!

Thanks to AD Len Small for giving me the chance to work on this. Check out the article at Nautilus here

tastefullyoffensive:

When beatboxers have children. (watch with sound)

allthecanadianpolitics:

B.C. First Nation to implement $17.22/hr living wage

A Vancouver Island First Nation is implementing a living-wage policy, boosting the pay for some of its workers by almost $7 an hour.

The Huu-ay-aht First Nation, located in the Barclay Sound region on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, says members of the executive council voted to implement policy last week.

Unlike a minimum wage, a living wage takes into account families’ needs to cover their basic expenses.

The minimum wage in B.C. is $10.25 per hour, but the Huu-ay-aht say they have calculated the living wage for Port Alberni at $17.22 per hour, or $33,579 annually.

The Huu-ay-aht say it will become the first in Canada to adopt such a policy and is following in the footsteps of the City of New Westminster, which implemented a similar policy in May 2010.

The First Nation is one of five Maa-nulth First Nations which implemented a modern-day treaty with the federal and provincial governments in 2011.

“The treaty has given us the ability to make decisions based on our values and goals, and implement those decisions in accordance with our own laws,” says Coun. Tom Mexsis Happynook. “The living-wage policy shows how the treaty gives us the ability to chart our own future.”

The story seems to lurch off the rails somewhat, as we get more into the actual plot machinations. ... A lot of the second half of this episode is super confusing, although it's possible that it'll make a lot more sense after next week's finale. ... All in all, this is an oddly uneven episode, in terms of both quality and tone. ... Obviously, we'll find out next week what the endgame of the Missy/Cybermen/Afterlife plot is — but that stuff was so random and handwavy, I'm not even in suspense. // The Doctor holds up the psychic paper (which Dr Chang) reads as 'government representative". "Why are there swear words?" he asks the Doctor. "I have a lot of anger inside."

babygoatsandfriends:

I am already planning my wishlist and I want this

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