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Had this one in my "wishlist" (never has that word felt less appropriate) for a while, your post reminded me to collate some legit online sources for it
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/threads (adjust for your country)
Ones that work in MX, maybe elsewhere too:
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10647273/threads
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/531445/threads
https://flixhouse.com/video/2599/threads
https://cinetimes.org/en/t/loading-17835-23-09-1984-1Also posted on #NeoDB
https://eggplant.place/movie/3TZ2WsPG7UpGPDhtnCaTbF -
Had this one in my "wishlist" (never has that word felt less appropriate) for a while, your post reminded me to collate some legit online sources for it
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/threads (adjust for your country)
Ones that work in MX, maybe elsewhere too:
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10647273/threads
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/531445/threads
https://flixhouse.com/video/2599/threads
https://cinetimes.org/en/t/loading-17835-23-09-1984-1Also posted on #NeoDB
https://eggplant.place/movie/3TZ2WsPG7UpGPDhtnCaTbF -
Had this one in my "wishlist" (never has that word felt less appropriate) for a while, your post reminded me to collate some legit online sources for it
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/threads (adjust for your country)
Ones that work in MX, maybe elsewhere too:
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10647273/threads
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/531445/threads
https://flixhouse.com/video/2599/threads
https://cinetimes.org/en/t/loading-17835-23-09-1984-1Also posted on #NeoDB
https://eggplant.place/movie/3TZ2WsPG7UpGPDhtnCaTbF -
Had this one in my "wishlist" (never has that word felt less appropriate) for a while, your post reminded me to collate some legit online sources for it
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/threads (adjust for your country)
Ones that work in MX, maybe elsewhere too:
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10647273/threads
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/531445/threads
https://flixhouse.com/video/2599/threads
https://cinetimes.org/en/t/loading-17835-23-09-1984-1Also posted on #NeoDB
https://eggplant.place/movie/3TZ2WsPG7UpGPDhtnCaTbF -
Had this one in my "wishlist" (never has that word felt less appropriate) for a while, your post reminded me to collate some legit online sources for it
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/threads (adjust for your country)
Ones that work in MX, maybe elsewhere too:
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10647273/threads
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/531445/threads
https://flixhouse.com/video/2599/threads
https://cinetimes.org/en/t/loading-17835-23-09-1984-1Also posted on #NeoDB
https://eggplant.place/movie/3TZ2WsPG7UpGPDhtnCaTbF -
@mythologyandhistory The start of Perth sea breezes. #windsurfing season. No more thick wet suits and regular daily 20knot winds. Sitting around at the beach with friends saying a touch less wind or a smaller sail or foil would be good. I'm starting to get excited just thinking about it. Oh and the #afl grand final of course.
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Wondering if there are means to make magnifying lenses accurately other than by trial and error or with maths?
Any #LensMakers #TelescopeMaking #Opticians around here? -
@mythologyandhistory @ConorMahood
"Everyone should learn the #mythology of a place as well as its #history"
Oh yes. For example:-
Camelot (with Avalon in the distance)
#Camelot #CadburyCastle #Avalon #Glastonbury #Wiltshire #Somerset #Photography #hillfort -
@mythologyandhistory @ConorMahood
"Everyone should learn the #mythology of a place as well as its #history"
Oh yes. For example:-
Camelot (with Avalon in the distance)
#Camelot #CadburyCastle #Avalon #Glastonbury #Wiltshire #Somerset #Photography #hillfort -
@mythologyandhistory @ConorMahood
"Everyone should learn the #mythology of a place as well as its #history"
Oh yes. For example:-
Camelot (with Avalon in the distance)
#Camelot #CadburyCastle #Avalon #Glastonbury #Wiltshire #Somerset #Photography #hillfort -
@mythologyandhistory @ConorMahood
"Everyone should learn the #mythology of a place as well as its #history"
Oh yes. For example:-
Camelot (with Avalon in the distance)
#Camelot #CadburyCastle #Avalon #Glastonbury #Wiltshire #Somerset #Photography #hillfort -
In 1995, #Chinese #artist Ai WeiWei broke 2 Han Dynasty urns for a series of photographs in order to "capture a moment when tradition is challenged by new values".
In 2014, a Miami-based artist smashed vases that Ai WeiWei had painted in protest that Perez Art Museum Miami only displayed international artists.
Ai WeiWei stated that: "The protest itself may be valid but to damage somebody’s work to do that is questionable."
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Hehe nice! My dentist told me I have a "great spacious jaw" because I didn't need my wisdom teeth removed, they just grew perfectly fitted & straight... I conclude I'm very #neanderthal 🦷
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Did you know that "do you plead guilty to the charges?" was once an unlikely question to be answered?
Until the 18th century, common #law had a clause in which a person charged with a capital #offence would be subjected to torture if they did not plead either #guilty or not.
Many defendants refused to plead despite this prospect, because if they did, their heirs would not inherit their property!
#Torture by crushing was used to either elicit a plead or #death.
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Did you know that "do you plead guilty to the charges?" was once an unlikely question to be answered?
Until the 18th century, common #law had a clause in which a person charged with a capital #offence would be subjected to torture if they did not plead either #guilty or not.
Many defendants refused to plead despite this prospect, because if they did, their heirs would not inherit their property!
#Torture by crushing was used to either elicit a plead or #death.
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Did you know that "do you plead guilty to the charges?" was once an unlikely question to be answered?
Until the 18th century, common #law had a clause in which a person charged with a capital #offence would be subjected to torture if they did not plead either #guilty or not.
Many defendants refused to plead despite this prospect, because if they did, their heirs would not inherit their property!
#Torture by crushing was used to either elicit a plead or #death.
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Did you know that "do you plead guilty to the charges?" was once an unlikely question to be answered?
Until the 18th century, common #law had a clause in which a person charged with a capital #offence would be subjected to torture if they did not plead either #guilty or not.
Many defendants refused to plead despite this prospect, because if they did, their heirs would not inherit their property!
#Torture by crushing was used to either elicit a plead or #death.
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Did you know that "do you plead guilty to the charges?" was once an unlikely question to be answered?
Until the 18th century, common #law had a clause in which a person charged with a capital #offence would be subjected to torture if they did not plead either #guilty or not.
Many defendants refused to plead despite this prospect, because if they did, their heirs would not inherit their property!
#Torture by crushing was used to either elicit a plead or #death.
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Did you know #coffee was, according to #legend, discovered by accident?
In 850 CE, a #goat herder noticed that his goats liked to nibble on an unknown berry. Curious about their energetic behaviour, he tried the fruit himself.
Elated, he brought the fruit to the #Islamic leader of his village, who declared it evil. The berries were thrown into a fire.
The fruit emitted such a lovely smell that the religious leader added the fruit to water & drank it. Coffee quickly spread. -
The #Nintendo leak revealed some interesting #mythology about #Typhlosion !
(Starts at the Typhlosion lore:)
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Did you know that the #Egyptian Cobra has a #divine & #royal #history?
The large, venomous #snake was represented in 2 different #Ancient Egyptian #goddesses.
Cobra-headed Meretseger protected the Valley of the Kings & Wadjet protected both #kings & childbirth.
In Lower Egypt, the cobra topped crowns.
In 2011, The Bronx #Zoo had to inform the public that an Egyptian Cobra escaped its enclosure.
It was found 5 days later hiding & named Mia - “missing in action”.
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Did you know that #invisibility cloaks are #real?
From the 2nd c's Cap of Hades to #Marvel 's Invisible Woman, magic that renders one #invisible is a common theme in #mythology & #scifi.
In 2006, #theoretical #physicist John Pendry figured out that light could be bent around an object so that it renders it invisible.
This led to many advancements in metamaterial science, known as 'metamaterial cloaking'.I've enjoyed this talk by Pendry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6IrynhjKs [start: 4:43min]
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Did you know that #demonic possession haunted 17th-century nuns?
In Aix-en-Provence, in 1609, a novice #nun was sexually abused by a #priest. She soon exhibited symptoms of #possession.
All exorcisms failed & another nun got infected.
After extensive #torture, the priest was burned at the stake & the nuns banished. One recovered, but the other remained possessed until her death.
The ashes of the burned priest spread the possessions to other cloisters for the next 20 years...
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Did you know that #Mao #Zedong didn't speak Mandarin?
He was a native of Shaoshan, Hunan province, which spoke Old Xiang. It made it hard for some people to understand him, while others saw him as unsophisticated.
Interestingly, Mao also decided to learn English instead of the (in 1950) more common Russian.
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Did you know that owning gold or silver was illegal in #Ancient #Sparta ?
Sparta is said to have had only brittle iron bars as currency. These couldn't be used for anything else due to their devalued state, & their heaviness (making them hard to hoard). Other Greek states did not accept them, so they kept Sparta isolated, too.
#Plato saw this as one of the ideals of a perfect state, as a lack of precious metals meant a lack of #greed.
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Sometimes I go into YouTube & search for videos of "The Black Bottom" or the Charleston & imagine the 20 something year olds horrified #Victorian parents.
The contrast between these generations was just so much more extreme than anything us living generations can imagine!
(Video of the Black Bottom for your scandalous amusement:)
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Did you know that there's a place in #Europe that still has a #feudal system?
The #crown dependency of #Sark is a curious place. It has no paved #roads & #cars are forbidden, #women only got the right to inherit #property in 1999, & the whole island is, to this day, a fiefdom.
This means the #monarch is the head, with a #lord (seigneur here) as the executive power & the tenants (effectively liegemen) as the vassals.
Sark has to pay the #king a yearly #knight's fee.
It's £1,79. -
Did you know that there are reliefs from a pre-Columbian society that were thought to be innocuous, but modern #research suspects something much more #sinister...?
At Monte Albán, an #archeological site in #Mexico, the earliest carved #stones show "Danzante", lit. "dancers".
Or that's what was assumed to be shown in the 19th c.
Today, the images are identified as being of naked men with mutilated genitals in twisted positions.
They're assumed to be sacrificial #prisoners of #war.
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Did you know that the first modern standing #army revolted?
During the 14th c. the #Ottomanempire found itself in need of #soldiers. The easiest recruits were children of Christian slaves who were turned #Moslem.
These boys were 7-14 years old & would become proper soldiers, known as Janissary, at age 24.
They had to remain isolated from society, #poor & #celibate.
Around 1446 did they start to demand to be paid.
By 1566 marriage was allowed.By 1862, they were gone.