The two-sided statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta (19th Century) at the Salar Jung Museum in India. The sculpture is carved out of a single log of sycamore wood. Artist unknown
npr:
People in Guadalajara, Mexico, woke up on Sunday to a thick blanket of ice over areas of their city, after a freak hail storm that damaged houses and left cars partially buried.
This is particularly strange because it’s the middle of summer. In the past month, temperatures most days have hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit or over.
Authorities say more than 450 homes were affected by the heavy hail, including some where the ice pushed through doors and windows, according to the local El Informador newspaper.
Guadalajara’s mayor, Ismael del Toro, told the newspaper that 10 people had been treated for symptoms of hypothermia.
The Mexican army and local authorities were deployed to use heavy machinery to dig out the city of nearly 1.5 million people, which is among the most populous in Mexico.
Freak Summer Hail Storm Blankets Mexico’s Guadalajara
Photos: Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images
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Ancient Egyptian flint saw, 3000 BC
Plaster replica of flint saw, found in Egypt, dating from ca. 3000 BC. Woodworking as a decorative craft began in Egypt around 3000 BC and Egyptian carpenters manufactured many wooden items to be buried in the tombs of the dead. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
nasa:
Spectacular death. Spectacular star. Your crushed heart remains bright from afar.
You’re looking at a composite image of the Crab Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away. The white dot in the center — an extremely dense ball of neutrons just 12 miles across but with the same mass as our Sun — is all that remains from a star that exploded in 1054 A.D. Had the blast occurred 50 light-years away, its intense radiation would have wiped out most life forms on Earth.
Spectacular death. Spectacular star. We’re grateful we can admire you from afar.
are there any books you can recommend about the french resistance or other antifascist history type books?
AnonymousUnfortunately, we don’t know of any good books on the French resistance ourselves (if you’re reading this and you do, feel free to make recommendations in the comments!). As for other anti-fascist history books, let’s ask Gord Hill, author of The Antifa Comic Book what he’d recommend:
Links to what Gord recommended:
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
Insurgent Supremacists by Matthew Lyons
Against The Fascist Creep by Alexander Reid Ross
Beating The Fascists by Sean Birchall
