I love this video. It's funny to see the guy getting into it and then he has to be big bad cop to let people by and he then he just goes back to it. I love this.

Anne Frank
 

Hotel Sozo, Nantes, France
 

Hotel created inside converted church

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One of the bedrooms in the Hotel Sozo is located in the rafters, with stained glass windows and arched ceilings


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In total, there are 24 rooms with original features including dramatic arched ceilings and stained glass windows

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Hotel Sozo in Nantes, France, is a modern-style homestay inside a 19th century chapel.

I'd LOVE to stay in that bedroom located in the rafters with the stained glass windows and arched ceilings, but when and if it came time to "do the deed" I'm not sure I could pull that off.......:giggle:

This was a hmmmmmm....good read
 

It's time to go play in the sunshine (shopping, etc..)

Randomly posting stuff
 

OMG I love gorillas. The gentleman there has his back to those gorillas as he knows he is safe with those gently giants. Look how stately they stand. *S

Link to BBC news coverage concerning the Gorilla's posing with Congo Park Ranger who saved them
 

Here is the link about the two gorillas in the selfie taken by the anti-poaching Congo Park Ranger who saved them as babies.

That photo went viral overnight, as well as the BBC news story about them.

LINK ~~>>>>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48011113

Peacock Pansy Butterflies
 

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The peacock pansy butterflies are recognized by their striking eyespots. The fascinating butterflies are native to South Asian countries. The upperside of peacock fansy’s wings are yellowish brown in color with brown edges. There are also distinct costal bars and attractive ‘peacock eyespots’ on the wings. The eyespots on the lower part of the wings become more prominent and attractive. The patterns on underside peacock pansy’s wing’s changes with season. Unlike dry season more brightfull patterns and eyespots form on the wings in wet season. Compare to upperside the costal bars on the edges of underside of their wings are appears to be dull and less attractive.

It takes 3 – 5 days to hatch the eggs of peacock pansy. The leaves of host plant become main food of caterpillars. It also takes another 5-6 days for development as a butterfly from pupa. The adult peacock pansy has a wingspan between 54-62 mm. They mainly prefers to live in gardens and open areas.

https://themysteriousworld.com/10-mo...-in-the-world/

Randomly posting stuff
 

In 1994 I adopted a baby gorilla in Africa under the "Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. I received a birth certificate and details on her group and her mother and father (known Silverback). You just apply for your support payments and automatically let them take it out of the bank, easy as that. Her picture hangs on my wall and they send you updates and newer pictures along with details. She is now a mother a couple times over.
The money goes to pay anti-poachers to try to guard against poachers but it is a dangerous job. A lot of gorilla hunters out there. Such a shame they are so magnificent an animal to be destroyed at man's will.

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^5 to your selfless act ~ I always knew you were a pappi :) lolol couldn't resist ~

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ty Ocean, sweet one, but it is an honor for me to be able to help these beautiful first cousins of our. They have no protection but what is granted them by stupid, selfish, ignorant humans. I am more than happy to be a part of that protection in one small way.

Journalist Gwen Ifill to be memorialized with USPS Forever stamp
 

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Journalist Gwen Ifill to be memorialized with USPS Forever stamp

The United States Postal Service has unveiled several new Forever stamps that will be issued in 2020. Among the stamp-sized works of art is a portrait of late PBS journalist Gwen Ifill.

Ifill's stamp will be a part of USPS' Black Heritage series. The esteemed journalist died in 2016 following a battle with cancer. She was 61. Throughout her career, Ifill moderated vice-presidential debates and worked for 17 years as a moderator on PBS "NewsHour." She was also managing editor of "Washington Week."

A 2008 photo of Ifill taken by photographer Robert Severi is now set to appear on a Forever stamp. "Among the first African Americans to hold prominent positions in both broadcast and print journalism, Ifill was a trailblazer in the profession," according to USPS. The Postal Service has been celebrating people, events and cultural milestones on these special stamps since 1847.

Ifill's stamp, designed by art director Derry Noyes, is the 43rd stamp in the Black Heritage series, which includes entertainer Lena Horne, civil rights activist Dorothy Height, Carter G. Woodson, who is credited as the "father of black history."

The group of 2020 Forever stamps includes an homage to Arnold Palmer, a celebration of the Lunar New Year: Year of the Rat, and a commemoration of Maine's statehood on its 200th anniversary.

There will also be four Forever stamps that celebrate different facets of hip-hop: "MCing (rapping), b-boying (breakdancing), DJing and graffiti art," according to USPS. And another stamp will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.

While the USPS unveiled these and other stamp designs Tuesday, they did warn that the 2020 stamps "are preliminary and subject to change."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...mp-2019-10-22/

Roy Hargrove Album Cover
 

Old Lesbians Guess Famous Lesbians
 

Los Tres Grandes | Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
 

With more than 200 works by sixty Mexican and American artists, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 reorients art history, revealing the profound impact that the leading Mexican muralists—José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, known as "los tres grandes"—had on the course of American art. From Jackson Pollock to Jacob Lawrence to Marion Greenwood, artists in the United States were inspired by their Mexican counterparts to transform elements of national history and everyday life into epic narratives of strength and endurance.

Narrated by Cheech Marin and featuring interviews with curators Barbara Haskell and Marcela Guerrero, and artists Aliza Nisenbaum and Derek Fordjour.

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, on view February 17–May 17, 2020.

More info at https://whitney.org/Vida.

"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little,"

--Thomas Merton

"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of Science makes skepticism a virtue," --Robert K. Merton.

For Saturday and Sunday (Weekend Woo-woo)
 

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Virtually Tour 500+ Museums and Galleries
 

Virtually Tour 500+ Museums and Galleries
By Emily Price

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Social distancing means that we’re all spending a lot more time at home, canceling or rescheduling vacations, and probably not going out to things like movies and museums. Staying at home doesn’t mean you can’t experience a little travel, and maybe a little culture, from your home computer.

Google Arts & Culture has a collection of more the 500 different museums and galleries up on its site that you can visit virtually. Clicking through to each one will bring up images of some of the museum or gallery’s collection, and in some cases full virtual tours of the museum you can take to pretend like, in a way, you’re actually there.

You can check out the full (massive) list of included galleries and museums. The list defaults to listing some of the most popular options first, but you can also sort them in alphabetic order or look at where they all are on a map.

Google Arts & Cultural Link to galleries and museums online:
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en

Finding out that Marilyn Monroe was raised by a single mother..

A story showed up on my newsfeed about celebs raised by single moms.

It's way more prevalent than I had ever known.

<<<<<~~ My score was: 62 points.


The higher your score, the thinner your bubble. The lower, the more insulated you might be from mainstream American culture.



See below for scores Charles Murray would expect you to get based on the following descriptions.

48–99: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits. Typical: 77.

42–100: A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66.

11–80: A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33.

0–43: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person who has made a point of getting out a lot. Typical: 9.

0–20: A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person with the television and movie going habits of the upper middle class. Typical: 2.

My score was 32. Probably because I’ve never seen an episode of Wendy Williams, Dr. Phil, nor Ellen. I thought was an interesting question.

Kite Festival
 

my favorite summertime activity... :stillheart:

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Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971, by Louis Draper
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More photos at The Guardian found here.

The Girls
 

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The Girls, 1969, by Herb Robinson
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Random posting
 

I was up before dawn as I often am but today seemed different. I watched as daylight came with no sun to speak of and I could see the huge trees across the way swaying in the breeze, slight rain coming down. I think this is one of my favorite times of day dawn and then dusk. New day when the world comes alive and dusk when all is peaceful (or should be).
I just thought what a beautiful earth we have and many have so little respect for her beauty and gifts to us.
OK I will bore you no more, just had to write this down with feeling.

And people stayed at home

And read books

And listened

And they rested

And did exercises

And made art and played

And learned new ways of being

And stopped and listened

More deeply

Someone meditated, someone prayed

Someone met their shadow

And people begin to think differently

And people healed

And in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways

Dangerous, meaningless and heartless

The Earth also began to heal

And when the danger ended

People found themselves

They grieved for the dead and made new choices

And dreamed of new visions

And created new ways of living

And completely healed the Earth

Just as they were healed