Popular entertainer Danny Kaye with the unusual bass wind instrument known as the Serpent, 1948. The Serpent descended from the cornett, and is a distant ancestor of the tuba.
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Apparently there’s now a Christian version of the Ouija Board? That apparently let’s you “communicate with God” while also getting immediate answers back? Is this just the Urim and Thummim of the Ancient Israelite High Priests? But like, with the most milquetoast Midwestern Protestant aesthetic imaginable?
You know, I’m not Christian, but this feels heretical. Im pretty sure they’re not allowed to do this.
hey what did they mean by this
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-Really Tiny Isopod Alert-
I keep a few very small isopod species! these guys are Reductoniscus costulatus, the third smallest of my micro isopods. they’re bumpy and eat wood. the Elumoides I have are even smaller at adult size:
(Reductoniscus costulatus & Elumoides sp. “Miami”)
the largest costulatus is an adult, and the Elumoides is a real whopper of a female. they don’t get larger than that!
interestingly, I think the two families they belong to (Armadillidae, Eubelidae) convergently evolved the ability to roll into a ball for protection.
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William Mason Brown (1828-1898)
“Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape”
Oil on canvas
Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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girl lying in her bed sighing eyelashes fluttering drawing hearts in a notebook with a glitter gel pen but when you look in the notebook it just says “Arundinaria gigantea” north america’s native species of bamboo that once formed miles-wide riparian thicket habitats called canebrakes
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Flintlock blunderbuss from The Balkans, 1st half of the 19th century
from Czerny’s International Auction House
A MIDWOOD BOOK
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