HAMPANG KITA Filipino construction workers play basketball after a day’s work at a government road reclamation project in Las Pinas, Metro Manila, on Monday. (Photo: Erik de Castro / Reuters via the Christian Science Monitor)
HAMPANG KITA Filipino construction workers play basketball after a day’s work at a government road reclamation project in Las Pinas, Metro Manila, on Monday. (Photo: Erik de Castro / Reuters via the Christian Science Monitor)
“…The bed of Marie-Madeleine Guimard, the renowned 18th-century ballet dancer, which was offered by the London and Paris based Pelham Galleries for $1.6 million. Designed in gilded neoclassical splendor by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, the bed was reportedly made for the house Guimard commissioned from Ledoux in 1770 in the form of a Roman temple. The bed’s elaborately carved frame not only depicts the muse of dance Terpsichore, but also Cupid, an allusion to Guimard’s reputation as a famous courtesan.” — Antiques Magazine
Never judge a book by its movie.
– J.W. Eagan
The Nomura jellyfish is a very large Japanese jellyfish.
It grows 2 meters (6 feet 7 inches) in diameter and can weigh up to 220 kg (about 450 pounds).
A 10-ton fishing boat has been sunk by the gigantic jellyfish off eastern Japan. Fishermen Trawler, Diasan and Shinsho-Maru, were killed as the three-person crew tried to trip a net containing dozens of huge Nomura jellyfish.You’re amazingly creeptastic!
(via danyellisrad)
In response:
Awwww…don’t be cold..come inside and get warm!
Lady Gaga toned down her recent performance at the Brits, which coincided with the tragic death of Alexander McQueen. Since she was his unofficial muse, Gaga decided that even though the show must go on, it doesn’t have to contain as many swallows’ feathers.
Amazing Bomb Explosion in the sea
The feet of King Tutankhamun
Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.
Lolo, a black Jaguar, sits with her newborn spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan’s zoo in Yaduda February 16, 2010. The two-month-old cub made his first public appearance on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America.
Lindsey Vonn of the United States reacts in the finish area after completing the Women’s downhill at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
