The Chained Library of Zutphen
I took these pictures during a visit to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands. It is one of three such libraries still in existence in Europe. Nothing much has changed here for 550 years.
More info: http://www.librije-zutphen.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=14&Itemid=111
wickedlovelyperfectlyimperfect:
This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed
MIND. BLOWN.
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From a 911 call by one of three women who had been kidnapped while they were teens; one managed to alert a neighbor who kicked down the door to the house in which they were held for a decade.
(via CNN)
WHIRLEDS AWAY The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour. This image was taken from a distance of 261,000 miles on Nov. 27, 2012, with filters sensitive to near-infrared light. (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech via NBC News)
I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!
Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born in 1868 with a rare form of conjoined twining called dipygus, meaning she was born with two complete bodies from the waist down. Her two small pelvises were side by side, she had two inner legs smaller than the outer ones, each inner leg was paired with it’s outer leg. Her dad started showing her when she at one month old, charging a dime, and she earned as much as $450 a week, retiring when she was 18.
She married a doctor and had four daughters and one son. It’s rumored that three of her children were from one set of organs and two from the other, which was medically possible but never confirmed.
(via Sideshow World)
“Purveyors of so-called ‘designer vagina’ surgery have long been criticized for making women feel insecure about a part of the body that a) varies naturally and b) is invisible most of the time. Now scientists have decided to investigate the claims made by websites offering plastic surgery for female genitals. Study authors Lih-Mei Liao, Neda Taghinejadi, and Sarah M. Creighton used an extremely simple procedure: They Googled ‘designer vagina.’ Then they looked at the top five U.K.-based websites that came up, and the top five U.S. ones. Here’s a sampling of what they found.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/the-9-worst-claims-made-by-designer-vagina-websi
Because apparently a woman has to meet certain male expectations to have any value in society. What a load of crap!
