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In shadows deep, where whispers wend,
There lies a figure, her presence penned.
Madame Noir, with eyes so dark,
Her essence veiled, a mysterious spark.
In the dance of night, she takes her flight,
A silhouette against the fading light.
With grace she moves, in silence adorned,
A mistress of secrets, her mysteries adorned.
Her lips, a crimson hue of night's embrace,
Her laughter echoes in the quiet space.
In veils of mystery, she finds her delight,
A riddle unsolved, in the depths of night.
Madame Noir, a phantom in the gloom,
A haunting melody, a whispered tune.
In the realm of shadows, she reigns supreme,
A enigmatic enigma, in the moon's soft gleam.
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The Danube is Austria's principal river and the longest in Europe after the Volga. Although barely more than 300km/185mi of the river's total course of some 2,900km/1,800miles - from its source in South Germany to its outflow into the Black Sea in Romania - lie within Austria, the names of Austria and the Danube are so closely linked that it is difficult to think of the one without the other. As the only major European waterway flowing from west to east, the Danube has for thousands of years played an important part in the history of the many peoples through whose territory it flowed. It marked out the route of the great military highway which ran from the Rhine to the Black Sea; the Romans built a series of fortified camps such as Vindobona and Carnuntum along the valley; the legendary Nibelungs came this way; and here, too, passed the Celts, Charlemagne's Franks, Frederick Barbarossa's Crusaders and finally Napoleon. In the opposite direction, going upstream, Attila led his Huns towards France and the Avars and Hungarians pressed into western Europe. Great battles which decided the fate of Europe have been fought on the banks of the Danube: twice the West withstood Turkish assaults at Vienna, and at Aspern (now within the city limits of Vienna) Napoleon suffered his first defeat in 1809. The Danube and the regions along its banks have become threatened by attack from chemical waste and by the power stations which affect the water-balance. As a result, in recent years the idea of making the area below Vienna a protected national park has attracted considerable support; however, the problem of finance is as yet unsolved. Between the German frontier at Passau and the Upper Austrian town of Linz the Danube describes a series of great loops in the forest-fringed valley between the Mühlviertel to the north and the Innviertel to the south. Below Linz lies the Strudengau, a wooded defile between Ardagger and Ybbs, and beyond this, extending to Melk, stretches the Nibelungengau, with the conspicuous pilgrimage church of Maria Taferl. The best-known stretch is perhaps the Wachau, with a series of ancient little towns between Melk and Krems. Just beyond this, through the Tullner Basin, lies Vienna, and the low-lying area which extends eastward to Hainburg and Bratislava (the Czech Republic) begins to take on the aspect of the Hungarian puszta.
www.planetware.com/austria/danube-a-o-danu.htm
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The mystery surrounding these concrete rings will probably remain unsolved. In any case, I have no idea what purpose they serve.
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this is a very rare occasion when all 5 members of the "Tombstone Five" have been dug up at the same time & are gettin together for a one night stand.....well they might all drop to bits but here's hoping
They'll perform their old classic "Oh yeah we're feeling all dug up...hey hey" & a couple of other big hits such as
"Your Love is Just Killin Me Babe"......"Shake Rattle & Roll" & their cover version of "Monster Mash"
Funnily enough it was a graveyard smash for them because they all dropped dead soon after the release.....the case is still unsolved but the Coroner recorded a verdict of death by monster or monsters unknown.........
I should mention the guy at the top left of the picture wearing a crown is just passing by & not in the group
Entered in the HYPOTHETICAL AWARDS Challenge..........
MONSTER MASH A GRAVEYARD SMASH
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Words are the worst way to say what I have to say, but sometimes you can't play how you want to play to show it well. And this is one splinter of a sentence, both a pain and a pleasure to try to expel. But I have to tell about the years of influence and artless advice that can still only escape in a struggling, stilted excuse for a smile. And when you're parked over on the wrong side of nowhere no amount off nothing is going to make it worthwhile. A touch, subdived, rinsed, and sold, before the hands have a chance to get cold, as an eyelash pries an hour from the schedules of the uninvolved. And your sills so-called insulation can only sigh at December Sundays, unsolved. So like the transportation of the suns, you must hold steady to the ones who light your mornings, nights, and aftermoons. And if you should grow angry with the pace of chance, don't be afraid to make some plans for December Sundays soon. Today you missed her getting up once again. Well boy, you've got to listen to me-promise her you'll rise this day next year from this very bed.
…Così come il movimento del sole, devi tenere stretto a te chi t’illumina le tue mattine, le notti, i pomeriggi. Se cresce in te la rabbia ad un passo da un’opportunità non aver paura di fare progetti per una domenica di dicembre . oggi l’hai persa rialzati ancora una volta. Bene ragazzo, devi ascoltarmi promettile che illuminerai da ora gli anni prossimi da questi anni orrendi
When I am out hiking I always do like I do in my life; I look back.
The pain, the unwanted incidents, the unsolved matters - it's all there in the back.
When I take them out into the light, into my consciousness - something happens; the pain disappears and the problems become tiny incidents and you may even forgive.
So, lol, a bit of blah blah today too, I looked back because I noticed the light was ethereal, and this is what I saw 🙏
Jungfrau Park is an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. It opened as the Mystery Park in 2003, and closed in November 2006 due to financial difficulties and low turnout. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, and consisted of seven pavilions, each of which explored one of several great "mysteries" of the world. Von Däniken opened the theme park to present his interpretations of unsolved mysteries involving extraterrestrial life that he believes took place around the world.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -
A lonely lighthouse casts a light over the ocean amongst the scattered isles once inhabited by tiny folk. Magellan passed through here, it is said, but the mysteries of these lands remain unsolved.
Night shot of Pinchin Street taken in 2018. On the 10th of September 1889 a dismembered torso was found in one of the arches on this street by PC William Pennett. The arch in question is the one with the graffiti on it that says CCT Is Useless. Can't tell you when they were sealed up. This unidentified woman was one of the set of unsolved murders in the East End of London collectively referred to as The Whitechapel Murders, but was not considered a victim of Jack the Ripper.
Before I took this shot, I was further down the street wanting to get a shot looking in the direction I am standing, but a couple of seedy people told me to get the fuck away. I knew better than to start an argument with some dangerous thugs, so I walked away.
There is still an unsettling atmosphere about streets like this, especially at night & when it is quiet.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D lens. CineStill 800T 35mm C41 film.
Jungfrau Park is an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. It opened as the Mystery Park in 2003, and closed in November 2006 due to financial difficulties and low turnout. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, and consisted of seven pavilions, each of which explored one of several great "mysteries" of the world. Von Däniken opened the theme park to present his interpretations of unsolved mysteries involving extraterrestrial life that he believes took place around the world.
The murder of 17-year-old Brenda Evans, found dead in a remote rural location south of Chester, was never solved. She was murdered on October 7, 1977, while on her lunch-break from the local post office and general stores where she worked. As part of her usual daily routine she had walked half a mile to her uncle and aunt’s house for something to eat and then bid them goodbye before setting off back to work. But postmaster Samuel Roberts was surprised she did not return at the usual time and when Brenda’s mum called in at the shop that afternoon she became concerned. Friends and neighbours began to search along the route she would normally have taken. It was her fiancé’s mother Edith Pritchard who made the grim discovery in the woods. Brenda had been strangled with her own tights and dumped down a 12ft manhole - just 500 yards from a field where her fiancé, 20-year-old farm worker John Pritchard, had been cutting hedges that afternoon. Mr Pritchard was questioned for 27 hours and was not released from police bail for four weeks but was never charged. This is Brenda’s aunt’s house.
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...dopo le delusioni, i rimorsi e le parole cattive, i brutti sogni che si sono avverati, lasciando da parte quelli che sono rimasti sotto le coperte, dopo tutto quello che di terribile ci è stato fatto, non abbiamo più nulla da dirci. ma che importa, se ancor ci possediamo l'un l'altro?allora, addio.
M. Y.
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart...live in the question.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Somewhere along the road in Iceland.
in the morning snow
Little flakes of snow fell
On the highway that day;
As perfect white ash
That could turn back into old flames
You could see the subtle lights prevail
Of all the little people driving home.
Human in metal on stone.
Born of glass.
The air was coloured bitter blue
You could taste it almost
Clinging to the crimson cracks that decorate
Your unsolved bottom lip
It is winter
We are winter
Foals Far away from friendly fires
Everything is all obscured
The masquerade is blurred
We are lonely yet still pretty.
There are these figurines diminished
Far away
Distant
Rendered inhuman
Painted in as if we are only here
To sell a Christmas card.
They are just rumours now.
And you just keep on walking
Falling
Deeper
In these endless roads of white.
You are just a head now on legs.
Probably porcelain.
But you make such pretty footsteps
And they seem to follow you forever
Walking so quietly back home
This a view of stones from around Coldingham Priory now within the bounds of the parish church of Coldingham which is part of the Church of Scotland. The stones gathered with the 2009 date stone are a marvellous collection of head scratchers and bright lighting up solved and dark dismal unsolved moments with consideration of curious potential galore. Such odd stones are quite often reused in secondary service and then further reused over and again with adjustments to fit their next desired placement. Here the stones are fantastically arranged into a fully fabulous collection. Details of the Priory are linked below. It is just in land from Coldingham Sands and St Abbs. As Above is the darkening sky and So Bellow is the shadow darkened hollow of a suitable looking sounding stone.
These ruins are next to New Asgard from Marvel films including Thor enjoying a new place by the sea.
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Coldingham Priory, claustral remains SM383
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Coldingham Priory Church including former hearse house and store, graveyard, boundary walls, gatepiers and gates and excluding scheduled monument SM383, Coldingham LB4059
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Coldingham Priory plan Canmore
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COLDINGHAM PRIORY TIMELINE 1098 -2015
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Jungfrau Park is an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. It opened as the Mystery Park in 2003, and closed in November 2006 due to financial difficulties and low turnout. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, and consisted of seven pavilions, each of which explored one of several great "mysteries" of the world. Von Däniken opened the theme park to present his interpretations of unsolved mysteries involving extraterrestrial life that he believes took place around the world.
I brought home an uneatable apple, because I thought it had character…it had become a home and a place to settle for cobwebs…plus it was admired by me …and lived longer than being in a pie…one day it was just gone………an unsolved mystery….WWG Oct 21 2016 Apple
40 Years ago today the only unsolved sky jacking in aviation history took place. A mysterious man known only as D.B. Cooper high jacked a jet held the crew for ransom and then made an insane jump out of the plane in a storm. 10 years later they found some of his missing money in a creek, but his identity was never revealed.
The Danube is Austria's principal river and the longest in Europe after the Volga. Although barely more than 300km/185mi of the river's total course of some 2,900km/1,800miles - from its source in South Germany to its outflow into the Black Sea in Romania - lie within Austria, the names of Austria and the Danube are so closely linked that it is difficult to think of the one without the other. As the only major European waterway flowing from west to east, the Danube has for thousands of years played an important part in the history of the many peoples through whose territory it flowed. It marked out the route of the great military highway which ran from the Rhine to the Black Sea; the Romans built a series of fortified camps such as Vindobona and Carnuntum along the valley; the legendary Nibelungs came this way; and here, too, passed the Celts, Charlemagne's Franks, Frederick Barbarossa's Crusaders and finally Napoleon. In the opposite direction, going upstream, Attila led his Huns towards France and the Avars and Hungarians pressed into western Europe. Great battles which decided the fate of Europe have been fought on the banks of the Danube: twice the West withstood Turkish assaults at Vienna, and at Aspern (now within the city limits of Vienna) Napoleon suffered his first defeat in 1809. The Danube and the regions along its banks have become threatened by attack from chemical waste and by the power stations which affect the water-balance. As a result, in recent years the idea of making the area below Vienna a protected national park has attracted considerable support; however, the problem of finance is as yet unsolved. Between the German frontier at Passau and the Upper Austrian town of Linz the Danube describes a series of great loops in the forest-fringed valley between the Mühlviertel to the north and the Innviertel to the south. Below Linz lies the Strudengau, a wooded defile between Ardagger and Ybbs, and beyond this, extending to Melk, stretches the Nibelungengau, with the conspicuous pilgrimage church of Maria Taferl. The best-known stretch is perhaps the Wachau, with a series of ancient little towns between Melk and Krems. Just beyond this, through the Tullner Basin, lies Vienna, and the low-lying area which extends eastward to Hainburg and Bratislava (the Czech Republic) begins to take on the aspect of the Hungarian puszta.
www.planetware.com/austria/danube-a-o-danu.htm
m/austria/danube-a-o-danu.htm
to build a blockade and defende it with violence, is not retreat (i ging 35) it makes impossible every kind of progress (i ging 33) it is a kind of violence and force - it leaves everything unsolved.
(Blocken ist nicht Rückzug: man denke zum Beispiel an den Unterschied zwischen sich (z.B.: bei einer Party) in einen menschenleeren anderen Raum zurückziehen - jemanden hinausschmeissen)
Part of: "The Warrior" dem Krieger ins Stammbuch geschrieben, als Gedächtnisstütze und damit er was zum Sinnieren hat / blocken nicht 1 2 3 mal täglich sondern stunde um stunde minute um minute sekunde um sekunde rund um die uhr // Esoterik Entlarvung i ging 33 35 dun dsin #rückschritt #leier #leiermann #i_ging #fence #gitter #mauer #wall #blockade #gewalt #minarette #rede #speech #öffentlich #public #arbeit #work #profession #ignore #ignorieren #stille #silence #schweigen #red #rot #weiß #schwarz #black #white #leiter #ladder #rung #sprosse #tinte #ink #symmetrie #asymmetrie #entwurf #design #teppich #tapestry #tapisserie #teppichweber #letter #mailart #weaver #weben #weave #musterbogen #schnittmuster #schaubild #schrift #handschrift #vorschau #rückschau #preview #review #schriftbild #i_ging #Yì_Jing #inhalt #form #aussage #botschaft Der Krieger wird seinem Namen im vordergründigen Sinn von Frieden = peace nicht gerecht aber dem eigentlich Sinn: FRIEDE- : umfriedeter (abgegrenzt durch Mauer, Zaun, Hecke,...) Besitz -MANN: althochdeutsch "man" Krieger. Sein Elfenbeintürmchen ist ihm heilig, seine Ruhe ist ihm heilig und das Heilige dient ja immer wieder als Rechtfertigung für Gewaltanwendung verschiedenster Art, Gewaltanwendung oft sogar mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht.
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Who spotted whom first would always be the unsolved mystery though the Toro King would profess it to be him with the sharper senses to notice such a man that drew near as though he had some business within the Toro King's domain. He was not a violent beast by nature, however the Toro King was more than ready to disspell any illusions, or delusions, this new intruder would bring. Golden horns gifted by Dionysus, he angles them in such a way that the points leave no doubt as to his skill to aim with deadly intent. With a slight tilt of his head, the gold and rubies shimmer with light that he directs at the intruder's face, those eyes, as the only warning the Toro King was feeling generous to give. (story by Ahn)
Suddenly she finds it. The case we waited for, somehow.
The unsolved matter that becomes a mystery, the deeper you dig.
She´s like Sherlock.
This will be interesting, for sure.
".... All that is solved with violence/force, stays unsolved ...."
".... Alles mit Gewalt gelöste bleibt ungelöst ...."
Bericht 3sat Kultur 2010 "Helmut Seethaler" (youtube)
Part of: "res noscenda note notiz sketch skizze material sammlung collection entwurf überlegung gedanke brainstorming musterbogen schnittmuster zwischenbilanz bestandsaufnahme rückschau vorschau / flickr bilderordner 1" - Helmut Seethaler Pflückgedichte // The Warrior: Botschaft dem Krieger ins Stammbuch, damit er etwas zum Sinnieren hat // "Weaving Diary Tapestry Aktion Tagebuch Teppich Tapisserie Tagebuch weben 365 days project 2: 2015 2016" 19. Juli 2016
Video 00:23min 17,44 MB #gewalt #blocken #poem #poetry #gedicht #poesie #text #inhalt #aussage #botschaft #form #pflücken #ernten #ernte #papier #paper #zettel #schrift #schreiben #letter #typography #schriftbild #westbahnhof #bahnhof #railway #bahn #station #ubahn #passage #wall #wand #mauer #glas #glass #spiegel #mirror #spiegelung #reflection #zettelgedicht #pflückgedicht #gedanke #denken #nachdenken #überlegen #überlegung #reflektieren #hand #verlauf #video #kurzfilm #experiment #experimental #experimentalfilm #licht #light #beleuchtung #kunstlicht #schatten #shadow #bildschirm #screen #passant #weiß #white #black #schwarz #red #rot
The old St-George-In-The-East Mortuary is where the bodies of Elizabeth Stride & the Pinchin Street Torso were found. the latter is part of the series of unsolved murders in the East End of London collectively referred to as the Whitechapel Murders, but only five are considered to have been the work of an unknown killer that became known as Jack the Ripper.
It became a nature study in 1904, & it closed in the second world war. It has been dilapidated since.
Thought it would be interesting to use this very wide lens with part of the frame really up close to one of the old tombstones there.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 24mm F2.8D lens. CineStill 50 35mm C41 film.
CR 727 in Sumter County, Florida. It was raining for this series of shots. I visited the FUSSELL farm. Thank you for the views, favs and comments, I appreciate each one.
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To me EXPLORE was like a Unicorn full of mystery remaining on of the great "unsolved mysteries" of Flickr. Like on an adventure to seek Bigfoot or a Giant Panda. This seemed so out of reach for me. I'm a simple girl who was given my first Fisher Price 110mm camera at the age of five and I have been snapping away ever since. From the bottom of my heart thank you for the delightful comments, support and favs.
I was kindly notified by the explore group. To me it's like unicorns and aliens you know they exist, heard all the stories but never actually see it.
Eagle @ Millennium Park on tree by nest with the smallest baby crying out for food, I think. This eagle was on one tree, the largest fledgling was on another tree close by, and the smallest was in the nest. If I had to wait to get fed this long, I would be crying out too! I wonder if they are waiting for the other adult eagle to show up and all eat together. A mystery unsolved, I had to leave, getting dark out.
On September 10 1889, an unidentified female torso was found in this railway arch in the middle of this shot.
Sadly, the identity of this woman was not discovered, & although they are not considered a victim of Jack the Ripper, they are still one of the eleven unsolved murders in the East End of London that the police have in the files titled The Whitechapel Murders.
I am not sure when these arches were bricked up.
Lomo Lubitel 166+. Lomochrome Turquoise XR 100-400 120mm C41 film.
It's a law of nature, more or less.
Tualatin Commons
Lens: Canon EF 80-200mm f/2.8L (1989), on loan from co-worker.
Media:
* Wikipedia: Fine-structure constant
* PBS Space Time: Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?
The old St-George-In-The-East Mortuary is where the bodies of Elizabeth Stride & the Pinchin Street Torso were found. the latter is part of the series of unsolved murders in the East End of London collectively referred to as the Whitechapel Murders, but only five are considered to have been the work of an unknown killer that became known as Jack the Ripper.
It became a nature study in 1904, & it closed in the second world war. It has been dilapidated since.
Thought it would be interesting to use this very wide lens with part of the frame really up close to one of the old tombstones there.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 14mm F2.8D lens. ADOX Scala 160 35mm B&W reversal film.
space gravity
Simulated view of a black hole in front
EffiART
Unsolved problem in physics:
Is physical information lost in black holes?
(more unsolved problems in physics)
A black hole is a geometrically defined region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing—including particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from inside it.
The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole.
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Als rotierende Schwarze Löcher werden solche bezeichnet, die einen Eigendrehimpuls besitzen.
Wie alle Schwarzen Löcher verursachen auch sie, bedingt durch ihre enorme Gravitation, eine entsprechend große Veränderung der geometrischen Struktur von Raum und Zeit (siehe: Raumzeitkrümmung).
Bei einem rotierenden Schwarzen Loch nimmt die Singularität jedoch eine Kreis- oder Ringform an und reißt die Raumzeit um sich herum mit anstatt sie nur zu krümmen: Der Raum wird in der Drehrichtung des Schwarzen Lochs mitgedreht. Diese Art der Raumzeitkrümmung erscheint nicht bei einem ruhenden Schwarzen Loch, sondern tritt bei rotierenden Schwarzen Löchern sozusagen zusätzlich außerhalb des Ereignishorizonts mit der Form eines an den Polen abgeplatteten Rotationsellipsoids auf. Alle Objekte um ein rotierendes Schwarzes Loch werden mitgedreht, eben weil sich auch die Raumzeit selbst mitdreht. Einem zu seiner Umgebung stillstehenden Beobachter käme es so vor, als würde sich das ganze Universum um ihn herum drehen. Dieser Effekt nimmt mit der Entfernung stark ab
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzes_Loch
Ein Schwarzes Loch ist ein Objekt, dessen Gravitation so extrem stark ist, dass aus diesem Raumbereich keine Materie und kein Lichtsignal nach außen gelangen kann. Nach der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie verformt eine ausreichend kompakte Masse die Raumzeit so stark, dass sich ein Schwarzes Loch bildet.
Jungfrau Park is an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. It opened as the Mystery Park in 2003, and closed in November 2006 due to financial difficulties and low turnout. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, and consisted of seven pavilions, each of which explored one of several great "mysteries" of the world. Von Däniken opened the theme park to present his interpretations of unsolved mysteries involving extraterrestrial life that he believes took place around the world.
Good morning everyone. I thought I'd share a quick pic of an odd male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) I photographed this past Tuesday. As you can clearly see it has no crest feathers. At first I thought the crest feathers were just lying flat and not raised, but that was not the case. They were entirely missing. No bald spot either. Head was covered in feathers...just none long enough to form a crest.
Not sure if it lost them in a skirmish with another male, which didn't appear to be the case since except for the lack of crest feathers, it looked to be perfectly fine and unscathed in anyway. The other possibility is it simply never had any crest feathers, which I'm thinking is not likely. Either way, it's one of those small mysteries that will probably remain unsolved.
As for this pic...it's mainly for documentation hence the reason for the tight and square crop.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a truly nice week.
Lacey
ISO1600, aperture f/8, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 434mm
"We stand on the edge of a New Frontier—the frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams, a frontier of unknown opportunities and beliefs in peril. Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus." - JFK
He spoke of hope, a hope for a better tomorrow, and how, no matter the odds, humankind was and still is capable of overcoming any obstacle if we work together. For the Dreamwalkers that are, and those yet to join their ranks, that is what this place, above all else, represents: Hope.
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Correggio (Italy).
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Another pair of abandoned shoes, forlornly—but politely—waiting for someone to save them from their rubbish oblivion. As you probably know, that of abandoned / lost shoes is an unsolved mystery in the whole world.
Other cases of abandoned shoes I have witnessed
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Lake Bodom. This area is popular for all kinds of outdoor activities. However, one of the most famous unsolved murder mysteries in Finland happened close to this very point sixty years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bodom_murders
Scientists pinpoint the exact moment in evolutionary time when mammals became warm-blooded
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By Ben Turner published July 20, 2022
And it happened much more quickly than scientists expected.
An artist's illustration of a mammal ancestor breathing out hot air on a cold night, a hint that it is warm-blooded. (Image credit: Luzia Soares)
Scientists have pinpointed the moment in time our earliest ancestors evolved to be warm-blooded, and it happened much later and far more quickly than the researchers expected.
The discovery, made by studying the minuscule tubes of the inner ear, places the evolution of mammalian warm-bloodedness at around 233 million years ago — 19 million years later than scientists previously thought.
These semicircular canals are filled with a viscous fluid, called endolymph, that tickles tiny hairs lining the canals as the fluid sloshes around. These hairs transmit messages to the brain, giving it instructions for how to keep the body balanced. Like some fluids, the honey-like endolymph gets runnier the hotter it is, requiring the semicircular canals to change their shape so the fluid can still do its job. In ectothermic, or cold-blooded, animals, this ear fluid is colder and thus behaves more like molasses and needs wider spaces in which to flow. But for endothermic, or warm-blooded, animals, the fluid is more watery and small spaces suffice.
This temperature-based property makes tiny, semicircular canals a perfect place to spot the moment when ancient mammals' cold blood turned hot, researchers wrote in a paper published July 20 in the journal Nature.
"Until now, semicircular canals were generally used to predict locomotion of fossil organisms," study co-lead author Romain David, an evolutionary anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said in a statement. "However, by carefully looking at their biomechanics, we figured that we could also use them to infer body temperatures.
"This is because, like honey, the fluid contained inside semicircular canals gets less viscous [syrupy] when temperature increases, impacting function," David explained. "Hence, during the transition to endothermy, morphological adaptations were required to keep optimal performances, and we could track them in mammal ancestors."
To discover the time of this evolutionary change, researchers measured three inner ear canal samples from 341 animals — 243 living species and 64 extinct species — spanning the animal kingdom. The analysis revealed that the 54 extinct mammals included in the study developed the narrow inner ear canal structures suitable for warm-blooded animals 233 million years ago.
Before this study, scientists thought mammals inherited warm-bloodedness from the cynodonts — a group of scaly, rat-like lizards that gave rise to all living mammals — that were thought to have evolved warm-bloodedness around the time of their first appearance 252 million years ago. However, the new findings suggest that mammals diverged from their early ancestors more markedly than expected.
And this drastic change happened surprisingly fast. Heat-friendly ear canals didn't just appear later in the fossil record than the scientists expected. It happened far more rapidly, too — popping up around the same time the earliest mammals began evolving whiskers, fur and specialized backbones.
"Contrary to current scientific thinking, our paper surprisingly demonstrates that the acquisition of endothermy seem[s] to have occurred very quickly in geological terms, in less than a million years," study co-lead author Ricardo Araújo, a geologist at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, said in the statement. "It was not a gradual, slow process over tens of millions of years as previously thought, but maybe was attained quickly when triggered by novel mammal-like metabolic pathways and origin of fur."
Follow-up studies will need to confirm the findings via other means, but the researchers said they are excited that their work will help to answer one of the longest-standing questions about the evolution of mammals.
"The origin of mammalian endothermy is one of the great unsolved mysteries of paleontology," study senior author Kenneth Angielczyk, the Field Museum's MacArthur curator of paleomammalogy, said in the statement. "Many different approaches have been used to try to predict when it first evolved, but they have often given vague or conflicting results. We think our method shows real promise because it has been validated using a very large number of modern species, and it suggests that endothermy evolved at a time when many other features of the mammalian body plan were also falling into place."
Originally published on Live Science
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