…People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull by chance. In reality everyone chooses more or less what kind of events will happen to them by their conscious patterns of blocking and yielding….

John Adams was nearly 89 when, at the request of his son, John Quincy Adams, he posed a final time for Gilbert Stuart (1823).

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I have been watching the John Adams miniseries from netflix lately… it’s very good. I just watched the part where his daughter had her breast cut off. Wow.

Laura Linney is great as Abigail but her eyebrows annoy me.

I like this picture.

kaiak:

inothernews:

MOONMASK As the New Moon’s shadow slid across the southern Pacific on July 11, people gathered along the white, sandy Anakena Beach on the north side of Easter Island to watch a total solar eclipse. The experience was captured in this tantalizing composite image, constructed from a sequence of 50 consecutive exposures. At their center is the totally eclipsed Sun surrounded by a shimmering solar corona. From the well chosen viewpoint, palm trees appear in silhouette against a darkened sky and the faint light reflected in the water. Of course, towering above the onlookers, at the boundaries of land, ocean, and sky are Moai, the island’s mysterious monolithic statues. (Photo: Guillaume Blanchard via NASA APOD)

 Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog

this made me LOL

thewomaninsideme:

Slam poet Katie Makkai and her powerful piece “Pretty” (via earlyfrost, fuckyeahfiercebitches, lipstick-feminists, heyfatchick, definatalie)

nevver:

4 Types of Bloggers:

stellar-raven:

Coiffeur, Bd. de Strasbourg, c. 1912

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sardoodledom:

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If the Earth Stood Still:
Modeling the absence of centrifugal force

As the last water connection between the two large neo-oceans is broken, an equatorial megacontinent is formed. Ocean areas in proximity to the continent are becoming more shallow while the waters of the polar areas are getting deeper and deeper. Former abyssal plains and oceanic trenches become inland seas within the new continent.

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ak47:

final3 (via Obscure Crem Crem 2)

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catalogliving:

Gary! I was just reading a book from the under-bed basket and I looked up to see that someone forgot to put away the twine last night.

Marina Bay Sands resort opens in Singapore | Mail Online

kaiak:

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elephantsandlambs:

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: Patrick Stewart finally knighted.

Make it sir, etc.

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