Another of the skulls fused with a maille (chainmail) Coif recovered from the site of the battle of Visby, Gotland, ca. 1361.
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The Holdovers (2023)
Gertrude Abercrombie and Sonny Rollins, Chicago, c1960s
Arthur Lille, Bali Devil Dancer, India in Primitive Christianity, 1909
The world's oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about 'seven sisters' stars may reach back 100,000 years https://phys.org/news/2020-12-world-oldest-story-astronomers-global.html
Holy shit, this is cool!
So many cultures call the Pleiades some variation of the "seven sisters" despite only having six visible stars. There only appear to be six because two of the stars are so close together as to appear as one.
The myths also mention one sister leaving or hiding to explain why there's only six. And based off observations and measurements, those two that are so close together used to be visibly separate. One literally has moved to hide.
And based off the similarities between the more commonly known Greek myth and the Aboriginal Australian myth, plus some other stuff, this myth could possibly even date back to when humanity still all resided in Africa!
Water For The People, Paul D’Amato
Naturalist Zoe Lucas has spent most of her adult life on Sable Island transplanting beach grass, observing wild horses, and mapping bees and flowers.
First computer animated cat ever - “Koshechka” (”A kitty”), 1968
Tetragonula hockingsi brood structure nest
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