It's been nothing but rain, rain, rain for days now.

Well, for the next week or so, we'll have nothing but sunshine.

L o V e … the … S U n S h I n E :stillheart:

I've known for many years that there are about one hundred thousand million (or a hundred billion, if you prefer) stars in our galaxy. That's a lot of very big things in an absolutely huginormous volume. I've just learnt that our bodies contain about ten times as many cells as there are stars in our galaxy.

Wow.

Simone Biles Performs Signature Move the Double-Double, AKA The "Biles"
 

From YOUTUBE: Biles dismounted the balance beam with a double-twisting double backflip, also known as a double-double. The move will now be named "Biles."

Interesting read........
 

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Salvador Dali avoided paying restaurant tabs by using checks. He would draw on the back as the waiter watched, knowing no one would ever cash the art.

Ya know, this guy's mama didn't raise no dummy..

Danielle Bainbridge - The Origins of High Heels
 

Danielle is the host of the PBS Digital Studios program, Origin of Everything.

HE TRICKED YOKO ONO

Always up for a prank, some consider Dalí a bit of a con man. Close friend and muse Amanda Lear recalls how he once duped Yoko Ono, selling her a blade of grass for $10,000. Apparently, Ono had asked Dalí to sell him a strand of hair from his infamous mustache. Not one to turn down a check, he got creative.

“Dali thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use it in a spell. He didn’t want to send her a personal item, much less one of his hairs,” Lear explained. “So he sent me to the garden to find a dry blade of grass, and sent it off in a nice presentation box. Ono paid 10,000 dollars for it. It amused him to rip people off.”

Dali had an unconventional marriage....
 

Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, known as Gala, was ten years older than Dalí and married to Surrealist poet Paul Éluard when she first met him in 1929. A love affair quickly developed, with Gala eventually divorcing Éluard—though they remained close. The couple married in a civil ceremony in 1934, despite Dalí’s family’s unease with him marrying an older Russian divorcee. She had a pivotal role in the artist’s career, becoming his business manager and muse.

By the 1950s, Gala was publicly engaged in extramarital affairs, though it’s said that Dalí encouraged this. In 1969, when Dalí purchased her a Catalan castle in Púbol, it was specified that he could visit her there only if invited in writing. Throughout their lives, there’s no doubt they shared an intense and cerebral love. He wrote, “I would polish Gala to make her shine, make her the happiest possible, caring for her more than myself, because without her, it would all end.”

The Right To Live In Peace
 

This took place during Chile’s curfew last month.

From YouTube.com
This is the chilling moment soprano Ayleen Jovita Romero defies the silence curfew, imposed under martial law by the government of Sebastián Piñera in Chile and sings the song “El derecho de vivir en paz”, (The right to live in peace) by Victor Jara.

Such is the silence because of the martial law, that her voice echoes through the buildings, while people from their windows and balconies are “holding their breath” to the words of her song, until the moment she hits the final note and a wave of applause by dozens of people fills the night and space of a neighborhood under police siege.

The soprano is singing a song from a guitar artist called Victor Jara, he was killed by the Pinochet dictatorship (imposed by the CIA back coup). Jara was taken prisoner along with thousands of others in the Chile Stadium, where guards tortured him, smashing his hands and fingers and then told to try playing his guitar. He was then shot over 40 times and killed. The song is called “The right to live in peace”.

yay for the geeks
 

Millennials Show Us What ‘Old’ Looks Like | Disrupt Aging
 

From AARP:

https://www.aarp.org/disrupt-aging/s...old-video.html

What age do you consider to be old? We posed that question to millennials and asked them to show us what “old” looks like. Then we introduced them to some real “old” people. Watch what happens when folks let go of their outdated beliefs and embrace the idea that aging is not about decline - it’s about growth. #DisruptAging