odditiesoflife:

Victorian Headless Portraits

The Victorian era has many photographs, most of which show the subject sitting or standing with a stern expression. Since photography was still in its infancy, photographers were experimenting with novel ways to create photos that differed from the norm. Animals acting human was one popular concept, and then came the headless portrait. Funny and entertaining, a new genre of photography was born.

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John Astin’s son?!

Sean Astin’s brother, yes.

(Source: underratedactors)

allthingseurope:

Nijenburg estate, Heiloo, Netherlands (by Allard Schager)

fieldsinireland:

Whitepark Bay, Northern Ireland by Felix van de Gein on Flickr.

rocketrictic:

Neutral Milk Hotel

 Amazingly Realistic Miniature Replicas Of Real Houses From The 1930s constructed by the very talented Narcissa Ward Thorne—better known as Mrs James Ward Thorn

(via designtaxi.com)

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 WHO WANTS SOME TEEEEEA?

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Office shares $1 million Powerball win with coworker who opted out

Workers at a real estate office in Plantation, Florida, are doing more than their fare share for staff morale - handing thousands of dollars of winnings to a workmate who refused to contribute to their lottery pool.

Jennifer Maldonado, of Pampano Beach, had only been working at Keller Williams Partner Realty for two weeks when her colleagues decided to buy Powerball tickets for Saturday’s draw. The mother-of-one said she didn’t have enough money to match the $20 other office workers had paid into the ticket-buying fund. A colleague even offered to contribute for her but she refused to take the loan. 

Then on Saturday the colleagues got the good news - they had won $1million to be shared between 12. 

But the very next day, the group kindly decided to split their winnings further still and opted to give Maldonado a cut ‘so she wouldn’t feel left out’.

‘I hadn’t gotten a paycheck and I was watching my pennies,’ the 31-year-old office worker told the Miami Herald. ‘I knew I was the only one who hadn’t put in the money, so I thought they were pranking me. ‘I actually realized they weren’t messing with me when my boss sat down and said this was real.’

The 12 all won around $83,333.33 each and have offered to each give an unspecified sum to Maldonado to try and make her feel better. They wouldn’t reveal how much the newest recruit would receive but vowed it would be ‘a fat pile of money’

‘As a team we put together a fat pile of money,’ said Realtor Laurie Finkelstein Reader, who organized the ticket purchase and offered to cover Maldonado’s contribution. ‘If we do the right thing and always care about other people, the right thing will happen to us.’ 

‘I’ll guarantee you the next time we play, she’ll be in there,” she added. 

The win almost wasn’t to be for the group of house sellers. 

Finkelstein Reader tried to buy 120 tickets but was mistakenly only sold 60 at the 7-Eleven Mobil Gas Station on Taft Street in Pembroke Pines.  She then returned to the shop to purchase the rest of the batch - with a man joining the line in front of her. It was the second batch that contained the winner. 

The Keller Williams team matched five numbers: 17, 29, 31, 52 and 53 in the $338 million draw.

After tax they received just over $83,000 each. Some have said they will invest in property while others say they will save it for a rainy day.

Nationally there were 13 $1 million winners as well as Pedro Quezada, 44, of New Jersey, who matched all five numbers and the lucky Powerball number 31 to scoop the $338 million jackpot.

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cnet:

Behold this amazing 200,000-piece Lego alien city

Artist Mike Doyle has created an absolutely jaw-dropping extraterrestrial Lego city called K’al Yne.

odditiesoflife:

A Woman of Art and Science

April 2nd marks the birth of a very important female scientist that was ahead of her time. The artistic and scientific explorations of German artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) helped pioneer the way for other women in science. Enterprising and adventurous, Merian raised the artistic standards of natural history illustration and helped transform the field of entomology, the study of insects.

In 1670, she and her husband moved to Nuremberg, where Merian published her first set of illustrated books. In preparation for a catalogue of European moths, butterflies, and other insects, Merian collected, raised, and observed living insects, rather than working from preserved specimens.

At the age of 52 and divorced, Merian and her younger daughter embarked on a dangerous trip to the Dutch colony of Suriname, in South America, without a male companion. Merian spent the next two years studying and drawing the indigenous flora and fauna within their natural habitats. Forced home by malaria, Merian published Insects of Surinam, her most significant book, in 1705. The lavishly illustrated book forever established her international reputation as an accomplished woman of science.

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agypsysoultoblame:

The many faces of rape

Heart breaking.

(Source: newbyoes)

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katswg:

Victims of Amherst College’s rape cover-ups and the disgusting things said to them

Photographs by Jisoo Lee

Project by It Happens Here — Dana Bolger, Kinjal Patel, Sonum Dixit

this is all so disgusting

allthingseurope:

Linderhof, Bavaria, Germany (by werner boehm *)

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