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Get Lost in the Stacks of These 10 Beautiful University Libraries
These stunning historic libraries will vanquish any back-to-school gloom.

By Molly McBride Jacobson AUGUST 29, 2016

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/get-lost-in-the-stacks-of-these-10-beautiful-university-libraries

I didn't post the text to this, just the photos.

Duke Humfrey’s Library at Oxford University
OXFORD, ENGLAND
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Ever think that some coincidences in life are just too perfect to be coincidences? Or have a moment so perfect it could have come straight out of a book? These crazy bookworm theories take that feeling to the next level, making you think about your life in a totally different way…

Monument Valley, Arizona, USA. (All Photos: © Tom Jacobi)

There is a technique in art known as grisaille, in which an artist will create a work entirely from shades of grey. Sometimes it is used simply because it’s cheaper; sometimes it is an undercoat; and sometimes it is employed to create a three-dimensional effect.

In his new book Grey Matter(s), Tom Jacobi's work could be described as photographic grisailles: tranquil scenes composed entirely of landscapes that are devoid of color.

Jacobi’s interest in a monochrome palette began on a trip to the Antarctic. Instead of finding a world of blue and white, he discovered that much of what he saw was grey. “No color was screaming for attention," Jacobi recalls in the introduction to his book. “That grey landscape radiated unbelievable energy and meditative calm.”

To capture this de-saturated world in landscapes as wide-ranging as Arizona, New Zealand and Iceland, Jacobi photographed as light shifted between day and night. As twilight fell, landscapes seemed, he writes, “like mystical enactments from some other world.” Atlas Obscura has a selection of Jacobi’s worlds of hushed grey.

Male child sent me these. The comments are.... interesting. *grins* The one where someone listed off the percentage of demons in various lines of work...
Might be useful. *snickers*

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=magitech
*** http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=technomancy
http://fantasynamegenerators.com/riddle-generator.php#.VXlnmPlVhBd
http://fantasynamegenerators.com/mottos.php#.VXlnTvlVhBd


***Necromatic Statistics
that sounds like something you'd do in an insurance company

Clinical Incantations:
Oh, great and powerful insurance policy, cover thy servant with protection and malpractice fees, for thou art premium in my heart and checkbook.

Demonic Electronics
"Aaaaaah! It's an evil toaster!"
--Demonic toasters – not quite as uncommon as one might think.
----Decepticons!!!

Esoteric Anthropology... somehow that just seems like academia.

Nuclear incantations
So, no more need for that big red button. We just say the word!

Occult Mathematics- So anything above college level?

Demonic Statistics -
the median age of the American major demons is 12593, 3003 for minor demons, and 720 for imps. In 2015, 73.3% of surveyed demons worked in the service industry, 14.6% in public services (including political offices), 12.0% in the military, and 0.1% in miscellaneous. Less than 0.1% of surveyed demons were unemployed.

Theurgical Epidemiology--- See Clinical Incantations above.

Civil exorcism? What the hell?!
---For when your highways and sewers are being possessed by demons.

Illusionary Archaeology. This is what, in the scientific community, we call a 'hoax'.

Necromancy Destabilization - to make zombies trip over themselves. Extremely helpful in the apocalypse!
---- Makes Zombies fall apart. Also helpful in the apocalypse.
Summoner's Processer — your demon is loading. Please wait patiently.
Talisman form. It is a little pendant of an animal or creature, and the wearer can take that form at will.

There's more or there can be more. It's a generator after all.

http://themetapicture.com/what-happens-when-animals-suddenly-realize-theyre-at-the-vets-office/

I giggled and awhhhhhed through all of these and want to hug them all.

This one is for Meep because of her cat/plunny peeking out of a box.

Facebook - Melissa Castloo

Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing,
there is a field.
I will meet you there.

~ Rumi


***Dramamine is wonderful stuff. I can function, not at peak performance but function.

I’m sure that when most of you are sipping on your favorite cocktail- be it a piña colada or a cosmopolitan- the first thing that comes to mind is not “I wonder what this would look like under a microscope…” But just in case you did, an awesome company called BevShots has combined art, booze and science to give you a magnificent array of colorful microscope photographs of your favorite tipple.

How do they do it? They first crystallize the beverage on a microscope slide, and then take pictures using a polarized light microscope with a camera attached. As the light passes through the crystals, some amazing colors and patterns show up. The result is pretty mesmerizing. Check out a few of our favorites:


Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/your-favorite-booze-under-microscope#2mmljmiAUQdgYwAe.99

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La Isola di Candia [The Island of Crete]. Cosmographia, Agnese, Battista. Venice, 1559 (MS 560)
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/portolan-charts



http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/648-portolan-charts-too-accurate-to-be-medieval

Portolan charts, it was always assumed, were compiled by medieval European mapmakers from contemporary sources. A Dutch doctoral dissertation now disproves this: these nautical charts are impossibly accurate, not just for medieval Europe, also for other likely sources, the Byzantines and the Arabs. So who made them – and when?
Mystery has always shrouded the sudden emergence, seemingly ex nihilo, of portolan charts. The oldest known example emerged in Pisa around 1290, without any obvious antecedents. This Carta Pisana kickstarted a tradition of amazingly accurate sea charts almost up to modern standards, although as with most other portolans, that accuracy was mainly limited to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
A typical portolan chart showed coastal contours and the location of harbours and ports, ignoring virtually all inland features. It would be criss-crossed by straight lines, connecting opposite shores by any of the 32 directions of the mariner's compass, thus facilitating navigation.

https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/bell/map/PORTO/INTRO/intro2.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/frontiers/portolan.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052104713.html