Jeffreys Bay in South Africa is famous for abundant seashells: the variety of colors, sizes and shapes, makes of it one of the most famous places for seashells collection [source, read more: buff.ly/2HgMmXZ]
Mike Farrell and I today toasting the 50th anniversary of the show that changed our lives - and our brilliant pals who made it what it was. MASH was a great gift to us.
Fairy tales do exist. The inside of the Art Nouveau "Ålesund Church" from 1909 in the town of Ålesund, Norway. Designed by Norwegian architect Sverre Knudsen (1872–1954).
📸 Holger Uwe Schmitt
Art Nouveau stained glass dome from 1908 by painter and glassmaker Antoni Rigalt (1850-1914) at the Palace of Catalan Music, a concert hall in Barcelona.
It's terribly hot these days, so it's time for an #IceAge masterpiece from the Swabian Jura: a tiny (4.8 cm lenght) #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse.
On display at Museum Universität Tübingen.
#Archaeology
The Roman Barbegal watermill complex - perhaps the first attempt in Europe to set up industrial-scale "machines".
Built c. 1,900 years ago, it consisted of 16 waterwheels that continuously milled grain, making 25 tonnes of flour a day!
📷 J. Dufresne
#Roman #History #France
Random Canada Fact!
If you were to visit one lake in Canada, every day, it would take you 2,410 years to visit every Canadian lake.
Of the 1.42 million lakes on Earth over .1 square-kilometre in size, Canada has 62% of them (879,800).
Source: cbc.ca/news/science/c…
Every year, we put a shout out for our missing room, in case a new friend to these pages recognises the fireplace and panelling of Gwydir’s missing C16th Oak Parlour.
It was sold in 1921 to William Randolph Hearst (aka #CitizenKane) who assembled it in his apartment in New York.
The lost 'Viking Tool Chest' :
In 1936, a wooden chest that once had belonged to a Viking craftsman was found at the bottom of the former lake Mästermyr on the island of Gotland, in Sweden; which now had turned into a bog.
Chest contained largest collection of Viking-era tools