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@1cookinggal
I cook, therefore I am; wrangler of prairie perennials & celebrator of free speech. Pun addict & hashtagger, damn skippy proud of all of the above. Boo-yah...



Blanche says evidence recovery is "not an exact science" and that when weapons are fired [inside a hotel], "sometimes you find the bullet, and sometimes it just disappears." 🤔




In the Louvre Museum in Paris, there is a marble sculpture whose wings are carved so thinly that when sunlight passes through them, the stone glows gold... The sculpture is called Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss and it was carved by Antonio Canova between 1787 and 1793. The story comes from Lucius Apuleius's Latin novel Metamorphoses, written in the 2nd century AD. Psyche is a mortal princess so beautiful that the goddess Venus grows jealous of her and orders her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous creature on earth. Cupid disobeys his mother and falls in love with Psyche himself. Their love is discovered. Venus, in fury, sets Psyche a series of impossible tasks. The final one is to descend into the underworld and bring back a flask containing a portion of the beauty of Proserpina, queen of the dead. Psyche is forbidden to open it. She opens it. Inside is not beauty but the Sleep of the Underworld, and it falls upon her like a black cloud. She collapses on the road, lifeless. Cupid finds her there. He bends down. He kisses her. Canova chose to carve the exact moment her body wakes... Psyche lies on a low rock, her body slack, her arms rising slowly toward Cupid as life returns to her. Cupid kneels above her, one hand cradling her head, the other against her breast. Their lips have not quite met. They are millimeters apart, and they have been for more than 200 years. Behind Cupid, his wings rise into the air. Canova carved them so thinly that when light strikes them at the right angle, the stone turns translucent and warm as honey... If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of history. You can join us here: james-lucas.com/welcome One story like this in your inbox every week.


One 32 year-old tech millionaire is suing to strip protections from upwards of 1,200 animal species to avoid paying a $140,000 animal conservation fee for his new home. His lawsuit argues animals native to only 1 U.S. State shouldn't be covered by the Endangered Species Act.



