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One of the greatest and oldest special effects in history can be witnessed in Rome today And it has been playing out, on cue, for nearly 2000 years... Each year on April 21, the traditional birthday of Rome — the legendary date Romulus founded the city in 753 BC — the midday sun pierces the oculus at the crown of the Pantheon's dome and casts a perfect disk of light that settles squarely on the temple's entrance. For roughly two minutes and fifty seconds, the bronze doors blaze gold... At that exact moment, the Emperor would step across the threshold, his body swallowed in sunlight, as though the heavens themselves were handing him the city. Hadrian's engineers designed the entire building as a cosmos in miniature: the interior is exactly 43.3 metres wide and 43.3 metres tall, meaning a perfect sphere fits inside it. The Roman senator Cassius Dio wrote that the vaulted roof was meant to resemble the heavens themselves...

Died on this day, April 21, 1668: Jan Boeckhorst (Flemish) Mary Magdalene, ca. 1650 (Baroque)

@NadiaFlorida78 @MidwestDadVibes @Bennieeexyz lol content is content

@UnrulySea @MidwestDadVibes @Bennieeexyz Yes, while making some guy in Africa money from engagement

I have been a teacher for 29 years. During that time, I have had good classes of students and not-so-good classes of students. NEVER in my life have I experienced the level of frustration that I am experiencing with this year's 9th graders. Don't get me wrong, there are some great kids in my classes, but on the whole, the level of disrespect and inability to stay focused on their tasks is off the chart. My patience is at an end..... This might be the year that I am done .

@NadiaFlorida78 @MidwestDadVibes @Bennieeexyz well we at least are having a discussion about important topics

@MidwestDadVibes @Bennieeexyz I know. It's so annoying. I almost commented too - then I confirmed. Just a bot.

@tchrscurriculum @Bennieeexyz My son began to think the mask was part of his face. A doctor here said it was neuroplasticity/intelligence, I thought it was scary.

@Bennieeexyz They were third graders when Covid started. We knew back then that group was going to create challenges we haven’t seen before. Thank you for doing what you can where you are with what you have.

Roughly a billion people have seen this photograph. Almost none of them knew it was real. It’s the default wallpaper on Windows XP. Green rolling hills, bright blue sky, a few thin clouds. For two decades, most people assumed it was a computer-generated image or something digitally painted. It wasn’t. In January 1996, a former National Geographic photographer named Charles O’Rear was driving through the countryside in California, USA, to visit his girlfriend. A storm had just passed. The winter rains had made the grass unusually green. He noticed a hill on the side of the road that had recently been cleared of grapevines because of a pest infestation. He pulled over, set up his camera on a tripod, took a few pictures, and kept driving. It wasn’t edited. No Photoshop. No colour enhancement. That’s what the hill actually looked like. He sold it to a stock photo agency for a modest fee. Years later, Microsoft bought the full rights for somewhere in the low six figures. Getting the original film to Microsoft was the strange part. The package was worth so much that not a single courier company would ship it. They all refused. Microsoft eventually bought Charles a plane ticket and had him hand-deliver the film himself. They renamed the photo “Bliss.” Windows XP launched in 2001. Within a few years, it was on nearly every computer on earth. Journalists now speculate it may be the most-viewed photograph in human history. The hill is still there. Grapevines grew back over it years ago. Every so often, someone drives past and catches it when the vines have been cleared for the season, and for a few days, it looks exactly like the picture again.

Francisco de Holanda, The First Day of Creation - Let There Be Light, c.1545

"Aunque la ventana sea la misma, no todos los que se asoman ven las mismas cosas: la vista depende de la mirada". - Alda Merini.

@KupariUsa lol!

The only thing I fear more than the Demonic Forest Chicken that still thinks it's a T-Rex is clowns and romantic commitment.

@jackmeridan This is relaxing & therapeutic. Great choice!

I know what my next thing is. I want to make earthenware blue sapphire planters. Or concrete planters. I was doing costings last night for a kiln and associated equipment and I was like oh shit. This is it. I woke up this morning and I am like I have the space to have a workshop at my house. So this is the first thing I have been interested in since my business folded. How weird.

@LadeBackk @archna2011 Highly recommend getting the Hormuz Strait Fastpass.

Stephen Fox (American, b.1957) "Storming the Hudson," 2022 Oil on linen 43 x 49 in

@YoMelToo @VERBAL_CHANCLA try Goldwell Topchic then look for similar products; you should see other color lines

@UnrulySea @VERBAL_CHANCLA On Amazon, I saw their shampoos but I can’t seem to get hair color to come up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why do women spend so much in a salon coloring their hair? Just buy a box and do it at home. The home:

@every_dayosushi The same thing happens with job offers.

ちょっと話違うんだけど、夫と付き合い始めた途端に元彼やら当時いい感じだった人やらから一斉に連絡がきた時期があってめちゃくちゃ不思議だった もちろん全部断ったり無視したりしたんだけど、人生には「試される」フェーズが必ずある

León Roulette Oil on canvas American artist

ウィリアム・ブレア・ブルース（カナダ、1859〜1906）『狩人の亡霊』（1888年）

Born on this day, April 17, 1606: Jan Davidsz de Heem (Dutch) Vase of Flowers (detail), c. 1660

@YoMelToo @VERBAL_CHANCLA You can get Goldwell professional coloring on Amazon and WalMart sites. Box dyes leave debris on your hair.

@VERBAL_CHANCLA Why? Because of the stuff you can buy in the stores and strong enough for my horribly resistant gray. ☹️

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