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Title: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 27, 2015, 07:01:46 PM EDIT: At the very least, consider this a fun thread to read from the beginning forward oppose to commenting on it.
EDIT: Once we get to ~20 posts, I'll include the FORKING rules so that we're not locked into a singular chain. EDIT: Post #20 depicts the start of a successful [contrived] fork (Post #21 locked it in). Simply mimic the text that's directly below the horizontal line which would include the link of the post you're desiring to fork. The single FORKING rule is apparent in Post #20. If you opt to post to add to the chain, please incorporate the following format rules:
To reiterate, a post that's continuing the chain should have:
I reserve the right to revert back to an earlier correct submission that'd include a new addition if deemed necessary. If caught early enough, I may cite, then reformat an errant post using the outlined formatting above, again accompanied with a new submission. Feel free to comment on posts, whereupon I, or others, will jump back in to continue the chain where it was left off. At the very least, readers and linkers alike will learn of things they've never encountered before. I've jump-started the theme of this thread with the following depicting the desired affects. Here's to hoping you enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Okapi2.jpg/640px-Okapi2.jpg An Okapi at Walt Disney's Animal Kingdom, symbol of the defunct International Society of Cryptozoology Quote Cryptozoologists contend that because species once considered superstition, hoaxes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax), delusions, or misidentifications were later accepted as legitimate by the scientific community, descriptions and reports of folkloric creatures should be taken seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Dreadnought_hoax.png The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf. Quote According to Professor Lynda Walsh of the University of Nevada, Reno, some hoaxes - such as the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814, labeled as a hoax by contemporary commentators - are financial in nature, and successful hoaxers - such as P. T. Barnum, whose Fiji mermaid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid) contributed to his wealth - often acquire monetary gain or fame through their fabrications, so the distinction between hoax and fraud is not necessarily clear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Feejee_mermaid.jpg P.T. Barnum's Feejee mermaid from 1842 Quote In the '90s TV series The X-Files, the episode "Humbug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug_(The_X-Files))" depicts the possibility of a series of sideshow murders having been committed by a Fiji mermaid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug_(The_X-Files) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/HumbugCapture.jpg The Conundrum consumes a raw fish. Quote The agents also meet former performer Jim Jim, the Dogface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis) Boy, who later became the local sheriff after his face went through hair loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/PetrusGonsalvus.jpg/320px-PetrusGonsalvus.jpg Petrus Gonsalvus (1648), the first recorded case of hypertrichosis Quote One record in history concerning congenital hypertrichosis lanuginosa is the hairy family of Burma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma), a four-generational pedigree of the disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Kayan_women_Burma_1.jpg/1024px-Kayan_women_Burma_1.jpg Kayan women in a village near Inle Lake, 2010. Quote The Lethwei, Bando, Banshay, Pongyi thaing martial arts and chinlone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinlone) are the national sports in Burma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinlone https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Chinlone_Burma_cropped.jpg/640px-Chinlone_Burma_cropped.jpg Men playing chinlone in Burma Quote The ball is woven from rattan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattan), and makes a distinctive clicking sound when kicked that is part of the aesthetic of the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattan https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Rattan_chair.jpg/640px-Rattan_chair.jpg A rattan chair Quote Unsustainable harvesting of rattan can lead to forest degradation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_forest), affecting overall forest ecosystem services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_forest https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Stanley_tree.jpg/640px-Stanley_tree.jpg The forest in Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada is generally considered to have second and third growth characteristics. This photo shows regeneration, a tree growing out of the stump of another tree that was felled in 1962 by the remnants of Typhoon Freda. Quote Usually, secondary forests have only one canopy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_(biology)) layer, whereas primary forests have several. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_(biology) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Monkey_Ladder_Vine_canopy.jpg/1024px-Monkey_Ladder_Vine_canopy.jpg A Monkey Ladder Vine canopy over a road Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 27, 2015, 07:02:07 PM Quote In the permaculture and forest gardening (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening) community, the canopy is the highest of seven layers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Forestgarden2.jpg Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire The above addition to the chain was accomplished via first visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_(biology) which was the last link in the previous post. I quoted a sentence from that page which linked "forest gardening". I posted its URL below the quote. I included an image found on the page that's now only 314pt wide. Under the image I added, verbatim, italicized verbiage used as the caption on the Wiki page. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 27, 2015, 07:12:36 PM <one final example sans comments>
Quote On the Yucatán Peninsula, much of the Maya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization) food supply was grown in "orchard-gardens", known as pet kot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Palenque_-_Maske_des_Pakal.jpg/800px-Palenque_-_Maske_des_Pakal.jpg Jade funerary mask of king K'inich Janaab' Pakal Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 27, 2015, 07:23:47 PM Quote In the last centuries before the Spanish Conquest, the Maya began to use the lost-wax method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost-wax_casting) to cast small metal pieces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost-wax_casting https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Lazy_Lady%2C_Rowan_Gillespie.jpg This bronze piece entitled Lazy Lady, by the sculptor Rowan Gillespie was cast using the lost-wax process. Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost-wax_casting and see if there's a sentence that includes a link to your liking and cite it, along with the linked term's URL and a no-wider-than 314pt (resized if larger) image from the resulting Wiki page. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 28, 2015, 01:08:56 AM Quote Some automobile manufacturers use a lost-foam technique to make engine blocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_block). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_block https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Daimler_DB_605_cutaway.jpg/1024px-Daimler_DB_605_cutaway.jpg DB 605 inverted aircraft engine of WW2, with monobloc cylinder blocks and heads Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 28, 2015, 08:00:56 PM Quote The complex ducting required for intake and exhaust was too complicated to allow the integration of the banks, except on a few rare engines, such as the Lancia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia) 22½° narrow-angle V12 of 1919, that did manage to use a single block casting for both banks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/2006_SAG_-_Lancia_Beta_Torpedo_1520_HP_1909_-03.JPG/800px-2006_SAG_-_Lancia_Beta_Torpedo_1520_HP_1909_-03.JPG Lancia Beta Torpedo (1909) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 30, 2015, 02:53:00 AM Quote Lancia's first car adopting a monocoque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocoque) chassis – the Lambda produced from 1922 to 1931 - featured 'Sliding Pillar' independent front suspension that incorporated the spring and hydraulic damper into a single unit (a feature that would be employed in subsequent Lancia's, up to the Appia that was replaced in 1963). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocoque https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Deperdussin_Monocoque_%28MAE%29.JPG/1024px-Deperdussin_Monocoque_%28MAE%29.JPG Deperdussin Monocoque, with wooden shell construction Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on May 30, 2015, 03:00:48 AM Quote The Falcon 1 first stage was powered by a single pump-fed Merlin 1C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)) engine burning RP-1 and liquid oxygen providing 410 kilonewtons (92,000 lbf) of sea-level thrust and a specific impulse of 245 s (vacuum Isp 290 s). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/SpaceX_factory_Merlin_engine.jpg/640px-SpaceX_factory_Merlin_engine.jpg http://Merlin 1C under construction at SpaceX factory Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 01, 2015, 06:20:28 PM Quote Finally, a Merlin 1C vacuum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum) variant is used on the Falcon 9 second stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/McLeod_gauge_01.jpg/640px-McLeod_gauge_01.jpg A glass McLeod gauge, drained of mercury Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 01, 2015, 06:25:09 PM Quote The reduction of convection provides the thermal insulation of thermos bottles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Liquid_nitrogen_tank.JPG A cryogenic storage dewar of liquid nitrogen, used to supply a cryogenic freezer Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 01, 2015, 11:33:23 PM Quote Over time, the company expanded the size, shapes and materials of these consumer products, primarily used for carrying coffee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee) on the go and carrying liquids on camping trips to keep them either hot or cold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Leipzig_coffeebaum_815.jpg/800px-Leipzig_coffeebaum_815.jpg Over the door of a Leipzig coffeeshop is a sculptural representation of a man in Turkish dress, receiving a cup of coffee from a boy Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 06, 2015, 11:24:13 PM Quote Use in religious rites among the Sufi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism) branch of Islam led to coffee's being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Shahrukne_Alam.jpg The tomb of Sheikh Rukn-ud-Din Abul Fath located in Multan, Pakistan. The city of Multan is known for various Sufi Saint tombs, as they call it the City of Saints Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 10, 2015, 06:48:24 PM Quote Some teachers, especially when addressing more general audiences, or mixed groups of Muslims and non-Muslims, make extensive use of parable, allegory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory), and metaphor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Salvator_Rosa_%28Italian_-_Allegory_of_Fortune_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/640px-Salvator_Rosa_%28Italian_-_Allegory_of_Fortune_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Salvator Rosa: Allegory of Fortune, representing Fortuna, the Goddess of luck, with the horn of plenty Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 11, 2015, 07:05:24 AM Quote The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist by Bartholomeus Strobel is also an allegory of Europe in the time of the Thirty Years War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War), with portraits of many leading political and military figures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Vrancx_Soldiers_Plundering.jpg/800px-Vrancx_Soldiers_Plundering.jpg Soldiers plundering a farm during the thirty years' war by Sebastian Vrancx. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 11, 2015, 07:26:21 PM Quote The destruction of the Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trincomalee) in 1624 and Ketheeswaram temple accompanied by an extensive campaign of destruction of five hundred Hindu shrines, the Saraswathi Mahal Library, many Buddhist temples and libraries and forced conversion to Roman Catholicism of Hindus and Buddhists conducted by the Portuguese upon their conquest of the Jaffna kingdom to the north of the island and Kingdom of Kotte in the south stand out as brutal consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trincomalee https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/The_Procession_for_the_Pooja.jpg/800px-The_Procession_for_the_Pooja.jpg Procession of Koneswaram idol pooja in Trincomalee city Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 07:36:23 PM Quote The British admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson) called Trincomalee "the finest harbour in the world", while the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger called the city "the most valuable colonial possession on the globe, as giving to our Indian Empire a security which it had not enjoyed from its establishment" and the harbour "the finest and most advantageous Bay in the whole of India". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/George_Romney_-_Emma_Hart_in_a_Straw_Hat.jpg Emma Hamilton, Nelson's mistress and mother of his daughter Horatia, in a 1782–84 portrait by George Romney, depicting Emma at the height of her beauty Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 08:23:21 PM Quote Victory was towed to Gibraltar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar) after the battle, and on arrival the body was transferred to a lead-lined coffin filled with spirits of wine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/El_ultimo_de_Gibraltar.jpg/640px-El_ultimo_de_Gibraltar.jpg The last of Gibraltar, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 08:33:35 PM Quote During World War II, Gibraltar's civilian population was evacuated (mainly to London, England, but also to parts of Morocco, Madeira and Jamaica) and the Rock was strengthened as a fortress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Baba_Vida_Klearchos_1.jpg/1280px-Baba_Vida_Klearchos_1.jpg The well preserved Bulgarian medieval fort Baba Vida. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 08:36:20 PM Quote The art of setting out a military camp or constructing a fortification traditionally has been called "castramentation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castra)" since the time of the Roman legions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castra https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/2006_0602TurdaPotaissa0122.jpg/640px-2006_0602TurdaPotaissa0122.jpg A sanitary channel at Potaissa, Dacia (modern Romania). It is placed cross-slope with a slight decline and then exits down-slope. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 08:41:00 PM Quote The Via Praetoria on that side might take the name Via Decumena or the entire Via Praetoria be replaced with Decumanus Maximus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decumanus_Maximus). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decumanus_Maximus https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Palmyra_01.jpg/800px-Palmyra_01.jpg Decumanus Maximus in Palmyra in Syria Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 08:41:18 PM <How to fork off an antecedent post.>
Forking: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072238.msg11486275#msg11486275 Quote Single-piece carbon fiber bicycle frames (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_frame) are sometimes described as monocoques however as most use the components to form a frame structure (even if molded in a single piece), these are frames and not monocoques, and the bike industry continues to refer to them as framesets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_frame https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Ordinary_bicycle01.jpg A penny-farthing photographed in the Škoda Auto Museum in the Czech Republic. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 08:50:09 PM <The fork is successful once one subsequent post directly follows the forked post, i.e., the post above and this one.>
Quote Recent advances in metallurgy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy) ("Air-hardening steel") have created tubing that is not adversely affected, or whose properties are even improved by high temperature welding temperatures, which has allowed both TIG & MIG welding to sideline lugged construction in all but a few high end bicycles. More expensive lugged frame bicycles have lugs which are filed by hand into fancy shapes - both for weight savings and as a sign of craftsmanship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Georgius_Agricola.jpg Georgius Agricola, author of De re metallica, an important early work on metal extraction Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 13, 2015, 08:56:53 PM <The fork is now considered a total success.>
Quote The word was originally an alchemist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy)'s term for the extraction of metals from minerals, the ending -urgy signifying a process, especially manufacturing: it was discussed in this sense in the 1797 Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Alchemy_of_Happiness.png Kimiya-yi sa'ādat (The Alchemy of Happiness) – a text on Islamic philosophy and spiritual alchemy by Al-Ghazālī (1058–1111). Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 14, 2015, 11:52:21 PM Quote The former is pursued by historians of the physical sciences who have examined the subject in terms of protochemistry, medicine, and charlatanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Hieronymus_Bosch_051.jpg/800px-Hieronymus_Bosch_051.jpg Hieronymous Bosch paints a scene of a Renaissance mountebank fleecing credulous gamblers. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 15, 2015, 09:56:53 PM Quote Rather, the person called a charlatan is being accused of resorting to quackery, pseudoscience, or some knowingly employed bogus means of impressing people in order to swindle his victims by selling them worthless nostrums (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine) and similar goods or services that will not deliver on the promises made for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Bromoseltzerwagon.png A horse drawn Bromo Seltzer wagon. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 16, 2015, 07:37:27 PM Quote The Kickapoo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickapoo_people) Indian Medicine Company became one of the largest and most successful medicine show operators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickapoo_people https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Grupo_Kikap%C3%BA_en_Coahuila_M%C3%A9xico.jpg Kickapoo people building a Winter House in the town of Nacimiento Coahuila, México, 2008 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 17, 2015, 06:03:28 PM Quote American leaders began to advocate the removal of the tribes to land west of the Mississippi River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Lake_Itasca_Mississippi_Source.jpg The beginning of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca (2004) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 17, 2015, 06:37:03 PM Quote With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 31 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/George_Caleb_Bingham_-_Daniel_Boone_escorting_settlers_through_the_Cumberland_Gap.jpg/800px-George_Caleb_Bingham_-_Daniel_Boone_escorting_settlers_through_the_Cumberland_Gap.jpg Oil painting of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 17, 2015, 11:56:40 PM Quote The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician) and once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky Mountains before they were eroded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Ordovician_Land_Scene.jpg/640px-Ordovician_Land_Scene.jpg Colonization of land would have been limited to shorelines Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: notbatman on June 18, 2015, 11:13:50 PM Quote An alternate extinction hypothesis, from Melott et al. (2004), suggested that a ten-second gamma-ray burst could have destroyed the ozone layer and exposed terrestrial and marine surface-dwelling life to deadly radiation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation) and initiated global cooling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Electromagnetic-Spectrum.png The electromagnetic spectrum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: notbatman on June 18, 2015, 11:13:59 PM Quote Above infrared in frequency comes visible light (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Light_dispersion_conceptual_waves350px.gif A triangular prism dispersing a beam of white light. The longer wavelengths (red) and the shorter wavelengths (blue) get separated NOTE: The link from "radiation" to "visible light" disappeared while I was previewing this post however, since I clicked a link to get to the "visible light" page that now just redirects to "light" I'm going to post it. The quote I quoted from now exists on the "electromagnetic spectrum" page that was originally linked from the "ordovician" page. "ordovician" no longer redirects "radiation" to "electromagnetic spectrum" but to a "radiation" page of its own. Were the links edited while I typed or is it a quote from another universe WTH is going on? ??? Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: notbatman on June 18, 2015, 11:14:07 PM Quote [QUOTE NO LONGER AVAILABLE] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Cloud_in_the_sunlight.jpg A cloud illuminated by sunlight NOTE: As the "visible light" page no longer exists and now just redirects to "light" I'm unable to copy&paste the linking quote I had just read... Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 19, 2015, 12:40:00 AM Quote An alternate extinction hypothesis, from Melott et al. (2004), suggested that a ten-second gamma-ray burst could have destroyed the ozone layer and exposed terrestrial and marine surface-dwelling life to deadly radiation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation) and initiated global cooling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Electromagnetic-Spectrum.png The electromagnetic spectrum <no links> Quote This includes electro-magnetic radiation such as radio waves, visible light (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light), and x-rays, particle radiation such as α, β, and neutron radiation and acoustic radiation such as ultrasound, sound, and seismic waves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Light_dispersion_conceptual_waves350px.gif A triangular prism dispersing a beam of white light. The longer wavelengths (red) and the shorter wavelengths (blue) get separated Invisible light and Light are the same Wikipedia pages regardless if linked or not. I changed the quoted text that included "invisible light" because the one you quoted wasn't linked, albeit you expressed why you did such. I, too, lost it after I followed your steps and clicked on it. Note that once a link is clicked, the color of the linked text changes from a shade of blue to a shade of purple, thus easily overlooked due to the non-usage of underlining links. No need to link italic text under images. As for the images, I wanted them to be of actual footage as much as possible oppose to graphics. Although I love the Pink Floyd-esque image, the clouds would've been a better fit. Thanks kindly, notbatman, for your efforts. You scored a 76. :-* Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 19, 2015, 12:40:24 AM Quote A rotating cog wheel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear) was placed in the path of the light beam as it traveled from the source, to the mirror and then returned to its origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear <as with "invisible light" redirects to "light", so does "cog wheel" redirects to "gear"> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Bevel_gear.jpg Bevel Gear Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 19, 2015, 01:04:14 AM Quote The Antikythera mechanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism) is an example of a very early and intricate geared device, designed to calculate astronomical positions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Antikythera_model_front_panel_Mogi_Vicentini_2007.JPG/640px-Antikythera_model_front_panel_Mogi_Vicentini_2007.JPG Front panel of a 2007 reproduction Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 19, 2015, 06:05:38 AM Quote The ship carrying the device also contained vases in the Rhodian style, leading to a hypothesis the device was constructed at an academy founded by the Stoic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism) philosopher Posidonius on that Greek island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Anisthenes_Pio-Clementino_Inv288.jpg/640px-Anisthenes_Pio-Clementino_Inv288.jpg Antisthenes, founder of the Cynic school of philosophy Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 19, 2015, 08:36:00 PM Quote The active substance, which can be called Fate, or Universal Reason (Logos), is an intelligent aether (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)) or primordial fire, which acts on the passive matter: Quote The universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soul; it is this same world's guiding principle, operating in mind and reason, together with the common nature of things and the totality that embraces all existence; then the foreordained might and necessity of the future; then fire and the principle of aether; then those elements whose natural state is one of flux and transition, such as water, earth, and air; then the sun, the moon, the stars; and the universal existence in which all things are contained. —Chrysippus, in Cicero, De Natura Deorum, i.39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg Sir Isaac Newton Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 19, 2015, 09:58:10 PM Quote Aristotle, who had been Plato's student at the Akademia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy), disagreed with his former mentor and added aether to the system of the classical elements of Ionian philosophy as the "fifth element". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Athens_-_Ancient_road_to_Academy_1.jpg/800px-Athens_-_Ancient_road_to_Academy_1.jpg Ancient road to the Academy. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 20, 2015, 08:41:08 AM Quote From there, the students of an Academy-in-exile could have survived into the 9th century, long enough to facilitate an Arabic revival of the Neoplatonist commentary tradition in Baghdad, beginning with the foundation of the House of Wisdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom) in 832; one of the major centers of learning in the intervening period (6th to 8th centuries) was the Academy of Gundishapur in Sassanid Persia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Al-Idrisi%27s_world_map.JPG/640px-Al-Idrisi%27s_world_map.JPG Al-Idrisi's map of the world (12th). Note South is on top. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 20, 2015, 04:44:15 PM Quote Indeed, Ptolemy's Almagest was claimed as a condition for peace after a war between the Abbasids and the Byzantine Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Byzantine_klivanium_%28%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD%29.jpg/640px-Byzantine_klivanium_%28%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD%29.jpg Byzantine lamellar armour klivanium (Kλιβάνιoν) - a predecessor of Ottoman krug mirror armour Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 20, 2015, 04:44:36 PM Forking: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072238.msg11610976#msg11610976
Quote Black powder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder) may have been an important invention of Chinese alchemists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Irvinepowderhouse2.JPG/640px-Irvinepowderhouse2.JPG The old Powder or Pouther magazine dating from 1642, built by order of Charles I. Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 20, 2015, 04:44:52 PM Quote After the end of World War I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I), the majority of the United Kingdom gunpowder manufacturers merged into a single company, "Explosives Trades limited"; and number of sites were closed down, including those in Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Austrians_executing_Serbs_1917.JPG/800px-Austrians_executing_Serbs_1917.JPG Austro-Hungarian troops executing captured Serbians, 1917. Serbia lost about 850,000 people during the war, a quarter of its pre-war population. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 21, 2015, 12:33:43 AM Quote As Russia mobilized in support of Serbia, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg) before moving towards France, leading Britain to declare war on Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bouneschlupp16.jpg/800px-Bouneschlupp16.jpg Bouneschlupp is considered to be a Luxemburgish national dish Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: notbatman on June 21, 2015, 01:40:17 PM Quote The recorded history of Luxembourg begins with the acquisition of Lucilinburhuc (today Luxembourg Castle) situated on the Bock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)) rock by Siegfried, Count of Ardennes, in 963 through an exchange act with St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg) https://i.imgur.com/QYjyJVD.jpg The "Hollow Tooth" tower with Saint Michael's Church in the background NOTE: I had to mirror the above image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg) for this post, I took a screenshot of the error that the direct link from wiki produced: https://i.imgur.com/rEzdRxW.png Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 21, 2015, 06:52:21 PM Quote The recorded history of Luxembourg begins with the acquisition of Lucilinburhuc (today Luxembourg Castle) situated on the Bock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)) rock by Siegfried, Count of Ardennes, in 963 through an exchange act with St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg) https://i.imgur.com/QYjyJVD.jpg The "Hollow Tooth" tower with Saint Michael's Church in the background NOTE: I had to mirror the above image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg) for this post, I took a screenshot of the error that the direct link from wiki produced: https://i.imgur.com/rEzdRxW.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg) <--Note that link is broken due to that second parenthesis, but if you wrap in code it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg/640px-Huelen_Zant.jpg The image seems to work for me: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg/640px-Huelen_Zant.jpg BTW, I love this addition. Thanks, bud. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 21, 2015, 07:01:30 PM Quote In addition to these structures, the Bock also included a system of casemates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casemate) which originated in the cellars of the medieval castle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casemate https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Beehive_casemate_obelisk_bay.jpg/1920px-Beehive_casemate_obelisk_bay.jpg The Beehive Casemate was built into this cliff at Obelisk Bay, Sydney, Australia, in 1871 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 21, 2015, 10:47:45 PM Quote The American Civil War saw the use of casemate ironclads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclad_warship): armored steamboats with a very low freeboard and their guns on the main deck ('Casemate deck') protected by a sloped armoured casemate, which sat on top of the hull. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclad_warship https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/HMS_Warrior_110lb_BL.png/640px-HMS_Warrior_110lb_BL.png Breech-loading 110 pounder Armstrong gun on HMS Warrior Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 21, 2015, 11:30:00 PM Quote From the 1860s to the 1880s many naval designers believed that the development of the ironclad meant that the ram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_ram) was again the most important weapon in naval warfare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_ram https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Olympias.1.JPG/800px-Olympias.1.JPG A ram on the bow of Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 22, 2015, 02:33:29 AM Quote Carbon 14 dating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating) of timber remnants date it to between 530 BC and 270 BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/NR_sheep.jpg Sheep on the beach in North Ronaldsay. In the winter, these sheep eat seaweed, which has a higher δ13C content than grass; samples from these sheep have a δ13C value of about −13‰, which is much higher than for sheep that feed on grasses. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 22, 2015, 06:08:29 PM Quote The development of radiocarbon dating has had a profound impact on archaeology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Stonehenge_1877.JPG An early photograph of Stonehenge taken July 1877 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 22, 2015, 10:44:28 PM Quote Aerial survey is conducted using cameras attached to airplanes, balloons, or even Kites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite). <no idea why "Kites" was capitalized unless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_(disambiguation)>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Morro_Bay_Kite_Festival%2C_26_April_2014.jpg/1024px-Morro_Bay_Kite_Festival%2C_26_April_2014.jpg Morro Bay, California Kite Festival 2014 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 01:09:59 AM Quote In 1750 Benjamin Franklin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin) published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning was caused by electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/New100front.jpg Franklin on the Series 2009 hundred dollar bill Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 01:12:51 AM Quote Among his many creations were the lightning rod, glass armonica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica) (a glass instrument, not to be confused with the metal harmonica), Franklin stove, bifocal glasses and the flexible urinary catheter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Glassarmonica.jpg/800px-Glassarmonica.jpg A modern glass armonica built using Benjamin Franklin's design Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 07:04:05 PM Quote A modern version of the "purported dangers" claims that players suffered lead poisoning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning) because armonicas were made of lead glass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Gas_pump_lead_warning.jpg/800px-Gas_pump_lead_warning.jpg A lead warning on a fuel pump. Tetraethyllead, which used to be added to automotive gasoline (and still is added to aviation gasoline), contributed to soil contamination. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 07:10:19 PM Quote Although leaded soil is less of a problem in countries that no longer have leaded gasoline, it remains prevalent, raising concerns about the safety of urban agriculture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture); eating food grown in contaminated soil can present a lead hazard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Mushroom_growing_kit%2C_BTTR_Ventures.jpg/640px-Mushroom_growing_kit%2C_BTTR_Ventures.jpg Edible Oyster Mushrooms growing on used coffee grounds Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 07:15:07 PM Quote Farmers' markets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_market), such as the farmers' market in Los Angeles, provide a common land where farmers can sell their product to consumers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_market https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Alpacas_2014-04-26_12-31.jpg Alpacas at the Richmond Farmers' Market in Richmond, Rhode Island, USA. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 07:19:02 PM Quote One such wholesale farmers' market is the South Carolina State Farmers Market, which is a major supplier of watermelons, cantaloupes, and peaches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach) for produce buyers in the north-eastern US. Farmers' markets also may supply buyers from produce stands, restaurants, and garden stores with fresh fruits and vegetables, plants, seedlings and nursery stock, honey, and other agricultural products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Jurojin_netsuke.JPG/640px-Jurojin_netsuke.JPG Netsuke Old Man of the South Pole (Jurojin in Japanese tradition), holding a peach Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 08:23:04 PM Forking: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072238.msg11671473#msg11671473
Quote At the time of the Belgian Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution) of 1830–1839, and by the 1839 Treaty establishing full independence, Luxembourg's territory was reduced by more than half, as the predominantly francophone western part of the country was transferred to Belgium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Rogier_%C3%A0_la_t%C3%AAte_des_volontaires_de_Li%C3%A8ge_%28Soubre%2C_1878%29.jpg/800px-Rogier_%C3%A0_la_t%C3%AAte_des_volontaires_de_Li%C3%A8ge_%28Soubre%2C_1878%29.jpg Charles Rogier leads the 250 revolutionary volunteers from Liège to Brussels (Charles Soubre, 1878) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 08:26:36 PM Quote However, in the end, none of the European powers sent troops to aid the Dutch government, partly because of rebellions within some of their own borders (the Russians were occupied with the November Uprising (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Uprising) in Poland and Prussia was saddled with war debt). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Uprising https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/MWP_Dyktator1831_seal.JPG Seal of the Dictator of the uprising Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 08:31:56 PM Quote The Polish forces then assembled on the right bank of the Vistula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula) to defend the capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Wodospad_Wiselka_Biala.jpg/640px-Wodospad_Wiselka_Biala.jpg Biała Wisełka Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 23, 2015, 08:34:34 PM Quote The root of the name Vistula is Indo-European *u̯eis- ‘to ooze, flow slowly’ (cf. Sanskrit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit) aveṣan ‘they flowed’, Old Norse veisa ‘slime’) and is found in many European rivernames (e.g. Weser, Viesinta). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Vallana_-_Haagweg_14%2C_Leiden.JPG/800px-Vallana_-_Haagweg_14%2C_Leiden.JPG A poem by the ancient Indian poet Vallana (ca. 900 – 1100 CE) on the side wall of a building at the Haagweg 14 in Leiden, Netherlands Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 25, 2015, 08:31:23 AM Quote A significant form of post-Vedic Sanskrit is found in the Sanskrit of the Hindu Epics—the Ramayana and Mahabharata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Draupadi_and_Pandavas.jpg/640px-Draupadi_and_Pandavas.jpg Draupadi with her five husbands - the Pandavas. The central figure is Yudhishthira; the two on the bottom are Bhima and Arjuna. Nakula and Sahadeva, the twins, are standing. Painting by Raja Ravi Varma, c. 1900. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 25, 2015, 06:16:14 PM Quote About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad) and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Nikolay_Ge_002.jpeg Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus (1855) by the Russian realist Nikolai Ge Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 01:42:21 AM Quote The Catalogue of Ships in particular has the striking feature that its geography does not portray Greece in the Iron Age, the time of Homer, but as it was before the Dorian invasion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/NAMA_Linear_B_tablet_of_Pylos.jpg/1280px-NAMA_Linear_B_tablet_of_Pylos.jpg A record of Pylos, preserved by baking in the fire that destroyed the palace about 1200 BC, according to the excavator, Carl Blegen. The record must date to about 1200, as the unbaked clay, used mainly for diurnal or other short-term records, would soon have disintegrated. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 01:49:56 AM Quote They destroyed the palace of Iolcos (LH III C-1), the palace of Thebes ( late LH III B), then they crossed Isthmus of Corinth (end of LH III B) they destroyed Mycenae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae), Tiryns and Pylos, and finally they returned northward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Lions-Gate-Mycenae.jpg/800px-Lions-Gate-Mycenae.jpg The Lion Gate at Mycenae. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 01:54:52 AM Quote Orestes then built a larger state in the Peloponnese, but he died in Arcadia from a snake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake) bite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Carpet_snake.jpg Carpet python constricting and consuming a chicken. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 03:17:00 AM Quote In the Late Cretaceous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous), snakes recolonized land, and continued to diversify into today's snakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Conguillio_llaima.jpg/800px-Conguillio_llaima.jpg Although the first representatives of leafy trees and true grasses emerged in the Cretaceous, the flora was still dominated by conifers like Araucaria (Here: Modern Araucaria araucana in Chile). Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 04:03:15 PM Quote The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote)" (visible in NASA imagery) outlines one of the shock-waves from this impact event in the rock of ~66 million years of age, which lies more than 1 km below the modern ground surface near the centre, with the rock above the impact strata all being younger in age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Mexico_Cenotes.jpg The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá, Mexico. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 08:44:48 PM Quote Cenotes are formed by dissolution of rock and the resulting subsurface void, which may or may not be linked to an active cave system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave), and the subsequent structural collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Lechuguilla_Cave_Pearlsian_Gulf.jpg Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico, USA Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 08:47:52 PM Quote This is a rough generalization, as large expanses of North America and Asia contain no documented caves, whereas areas such as the Madagascar dry deciduous forests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_dry_deciduous_forests) and parts of Brazil contain many documented caves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_dry_deciduous_forests https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Coquerelsdiningrazorback.jpg/800px-Coquerelsdiningrazorback.jpg Coquerel's Sifaka in arboreal feeding mode in Anjajavy Forest. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 27, 2015, 08:57:22 PM Quote These dry deciduous forests span the coastal plain with its limestone plateaus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau) emanating virtually at sea level to higher altitudes to 800 metres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Hardangervidda_1986.jpg/800px-Hardangervidda_1986.jpg Hardangervidda, the largest plateau in Europe Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 29, 2015, 05:47:33 PM <Apologies for breaking the Cardinal Rule pertaining to image size restrictions, but it's the Grand Canyon; Also, been there, done that [at sunset]!>
Quote In northern Arizona and southern Utah the Colorado Plateau is bisected by the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Grand_Canyon_Panorama_2013.jpg/1920px-Grand_Canyon_Panorama_2013.jpg View from the South Rim Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 29, 2015, 05:55:16 PM Quote Canyon tourists and residents of Supai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supai,_Arizona), a town located in the bottom of the canyon, were evacuated from the Supai area on August 17–18, 2008 due to a break in the earthen Redlands Dam, located upstream of Supai, after a night of heavy rainfall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supai,_Arizona https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/SupaiVillageFirstSignWigleeva.jpg/1024px-SupaiVillageFirstSignWigleeva.jpg The Wigleeva rock formations watch over Supai Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 29, 2015, 07:54:26 PM Quote Tourists and some residents were evacuated from Supai and surrounding area on August 17 and 18, 2008, due to flooding of Havasu Creek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havasu_Creek) complicated by the failure of the earthen Redlands Dam after a night of heavy rainfall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havasu_Creek https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/New_mooney_falls.JPG/800px-New_mooney_falls.JPG Mooney Falls Bonus Excerpt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havasu_Creek#Mooney_Falls Quote Mooney Falls is the fourth main waterfall in the canyon. It is named after D. W. "James" Mooney, a miner, who in 1882 – according to his companions – decided to mine the area near Havasu Falls for minerals. The group then decided to try Mooney Falls. One of his companions was injured, so James Mooney decided to try to climb up the falls with his companion tied to his back, and subsequently fell to his death. The Falls are located 2.25 miles (3.6 km) from Supai, just past the campgrounds. The trail leads to the top of the falls, where there is a lookout/photograph area that overlooks the 210-foot (64 m) canyon wall that the waterfall cascades over. In order to gain access to the bottom of the falls and its pool, a very rugged and dangerous descent is required. Extreme care and discretion for the following portion is required; it is highly exposed and should not be attempted when the weather and/or conditions are not suitable. The trail down is located on the left side (looking downstream), up against the canyon wall. The first half of the trail is only moderately difficult until the entrance of a small passageway/cave is reached. At this point the trail becomes very difficult and very precarious. The small passageway is large enough for the average human, and leads to a small opening in which another passageway is entered. At the end of the second passageway the trail becomes a semi-vertical rock climb that is similar to descending a ladder. Strategically placed chains, handholds, and ladders aid in the climb. Mist from the falls often makes the rock slippery, and the climb is also difficult because of having to pass people going in the opposite direction. The pool is the largest of the three, and some people jump from low cliff ledges into the pool. It is possible for strong swimmers to swim to the left of the falls to the rock wall and then to a small cave that is located just above the water line, approximately 15–20 feet (5 to 6 meters) away from the falls. An island breaks the pool into two streams. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 30, 2015, 05:28:09 PM Quote It is possible to swim behind the falls and enter a small rock shelter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_shelter) behind it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_shelter https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Rock_shelter_Papula.jpg Rock shelter in the Little Carpathians Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 30, 2015, 05:45:51 PM Quote Transhumant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance) nomads, people who move with their livestock - often from lower permanent winter residences in the valleys to higher summer pastures - frequently build semi-permanent camps, often of rocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Richtersveld_World_Heritage_Site%2C_Matjieshuts_at_Glybank_near_Kuboes.JPG/800px-Richtersveld_World_Heritage_Site%2C_Matjieshuts_at_Glybank_near_Kuboes.JPG Haru Oms at Glybank near Kuboes in the Richtersveld Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 30, 2015, 05:49:47 PM Quote The film, Brokeback Mountain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain) (2005), portrays shepherds driving sheep into BLM mountain meadows for grazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Brokeback_mountain.jpg Theatrical release poster Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 30, 2015, 05:56:26 PM Quote It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, as well as the title Best Picture from the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, the Las Vegas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas) Film Critics Society, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the Utah Film Critics Society, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Calico_basin_red_rock_cumulus_mediocris.jpg Desert scene near Red Rock Canyon in the Las Vegas area Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 30, 2015, 08:55:15 PM Quote Due to water resource issues, there has been a movement to encourage xeriscapes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Optuniainbloom.jpg/800px-Optuniainbloom.jpg Cacti are one of the low-water-consuming plants used in Xeriscaping. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on June 30, 2015, 09:00:17 PM Quote The specific plants used in xeriscaping depend upon the climate. Xeriscaping is different from natural landscaping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping), because the emphasis in xeriscaping is on selection of plants for water conservation, not necessarily selecting native plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_landscaping https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Banksia_spinulosa_claret_styles_Georges_River_NP_email.jpg Banksia spinulosa, a Sydney, Australia local plant which attracts wildlife Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 01, 2015, 11:48:22 AM Quote However, these applications may be necessary for some preventative care of trees and other vegetation in areas of degraded or weedy landscapes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Beaver_dam_in_Tierra_del_Fuego.jpg/800px-Beaver_dam_in_Tierra_del_Fuego.jpg Beavers from North America constitute an invasive species in Tierra del Fuego, where they have a substantial impact on landscape and local ecology through their dams. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 01, 2015, 11:55:31 AM Quote One such facilitative mechanism is allelopathy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy), also known as chemical competition or interference competition, where a plant secretes chemicals that make the surrounding soil uninhabitable, or at least inhibitory, to competing species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Casuarina_litter.jpg/800px-Casuarina_litter.jpg Casuarina equisetifolia litter completely suppresses germination of understory plants as shown here despite the relative openness of the canopy and ample rainfall (>120 cm/yr) at the location Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 01, 2015, 07:00:10 PM Quote Allelopathy is characteristic of certain plants, algae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae), bacteria, coral, and fungi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Lichens_near_Clogher_Head_%28stevefe%29.jpg/800px-Lichens_near_Clogher_Head_%28stevefe%29.jpg Rock lichens in Ireland Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 01, 2015, 07:06:54 PM Quote The Algal Collection of the US National Herbarium (located in the National Museum of Natural History (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Natural_History)) consists of approximately 320,500 dried specimens, which, although not exhaustive (no exhaustive collection exists), gives an idea of the order of magnitude of the number of algal species (that number remains unknown). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Natural_History https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Smithsonian_Natural_History_Museum_circa_1926.jpg Ford Model T parked in front of the National Museum in 1926 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 01, 2015, 07:12:39 PM Quote Additionally, the Smithsonian's National Gem and Mineral Collection houses approximately 35,000 meteorites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite), which is considered to be one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Pallasite-Esquel-RoyalOntarioMuseum-Jan18-09.jpg/800px-Pallasite-Esquel-RoyalOntarioMuseum-Jan18-09.jpg A cut and polished slice of the Esquel meteorite, a stony-iron pallasite. Yellow-green olivine crystals are encased in the iron-nickel matrix. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 03, 2015, 03:11:26 AM Quote Although such disruption events are uncommon, they can cause a considerable concussion to occur; the famed Tunguska event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event) probably resulted from such an incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Tunguska_epicenter.jpg The Southern swamp—the hypocentre of the Tunguska explosion—in 2008 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 03, 2015, 03:15:57 AM Quote Most likely it was between 10 and 15 megatons of TNT (42 and 63 PJ), and if so, the energy of the explosion was about 1,000 times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan; roughly equal to that of the United States' Castle Bravo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) ground-based thermonuclear test detonation on March 1, 1954; and about two-fifths that of the Soviet Union's later Tsar Bomba (the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Castle_Bravo_Blast.jpg/800px-Castle_Bravo_Blast.jpg Castle Bravo mushroom cloud Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 03, 2015, 03:20:32 AM Quote In Mike the fallout correctly landed north of the inhabited area but, in the 1954 Bravo test, there was a lot of wind shear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_shear), and the wind that was blowing north the day before the test steadily veered towards the east. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_shear https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Thunderhead.anvil.jpg/1024px-Thunderhead.anvil.jpg Strong wind shear in the high troposphere forms the anvil-shaped top of this mature cumulonimbus cloud, or thunderstorm. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 03, 2015, 03:24:47 AM Quote In the tropics, tropical waves move from east to west across the Atlantic and eastern Pacific basins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Tahuna_maru_islet_Raroia.jpg Tahuna maru islet, French Polynesia Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 03, 2015, 07:18:15 PM Quote The equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with two exceptions: the Galápagos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands) and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/SulaNebouxi.jpg Blue-footed booby Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 03, 2015, 07:25:54 PM Quote European discovery of the Galápagos Islands occurred when Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, sailed to Peru (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru) to settle a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and his lieutenants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/80_-_Machu_Picchu_-_Juin_2009_-_edit.2.jpg/800px-80_-_Machu_Picchu_-_Juin_2009_-_edit.2.jpg The citadel of Machu Picchu, an iconic symbol of pre-Columbian Peru Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 04, 2015, 03:10:05 PM Quote In pre-Hispanic times, musical expressions varied widely in each region; the quena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quena) and the tinya were two common instruments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quena https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Quena01.jpg The quena is a South American wind instrument, mostly used by Andean musicians Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 04, 2015, 03:49:28 PM Quote In most of Andes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes)' towns "vamos a ir a la quena" (we will go to the quena) was a popular sentence to threaten little children, because the quena was made of totora, a hard material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Tunki_Tanpupata.jpg A male Andean cock-of-the-rock, a species found in humid Andean forests of Peru, the country of which it is the national bird. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 04, 2015, 03:53:00 PM Quote The vicuña and guanaco can be found living in the Altiplano, while the closely related domesticated llama and alpaca (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca) are widely kept by locals as pack animals and for their meat and wool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Guanako.jpg Guanacos (wild parent species of llamas) near Torres del Paine, Chile Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 07, 2015, 12:33:16 AM Quote Twins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin) are rare, occurring about once per 1000 deliveries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapolis_-_Female_ere_ibeji_twin_figure_pair.jpg A pair of female ere ibeji twin figures (early 20th-century) in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Yoruba people have the highest twinning rate in the world. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 07, 2015, 12:36:35 AM Quote In a study on the maternity records of 5750 Hausa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_people) women living in the Savannah zone of Nigeria, there were 40 twins and 2 triplets per 1000 births. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_people https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Gobarau_Minaret_Katsina.JPG/800px-Gobarau_Minaret_Katsina.JPG The 15th century Gobarau minaret in Katsina. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 07, 2015, 12:40:01 AM Quote Depending on their location and occupation, they may wear a Tuareg-style turban around this to veil the face (known as Alasho or Tagelmust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagelmust)). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagelmust https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Cheche.JPG A cheche, worn by a woman. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 09, 2015, 11:25:12 PM Quote A tagelmust (also known as cheich or cheche) is an indigo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_dye) dyed cotton garment with the appearance of both a veil and a turban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_dye https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/IndigoDyePotOnStove.JPG/800px-IndigoDyePotOnStove.JPG Pot of freeze-dried indigo dye Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 09, 2015, 11:28:54 PM Quote It is the blue of blue jeans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Manifattura_genovese%2C_abito_da_festa_in_tela_di_genova_%28jeans%29%2C_1850-1900_ca..JPG/320px-Manifattura_genovese%2C_abito_da_festa_in_tela_di_genova_%28jeans%29%2C_1850-1900_ca..JPG A traditional female Genoese dress in "blue jeans" (1890s) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 09, 2015, 11:32:54 PM Quote The used or "acid wash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_washing#Acid-washed_jeans)" look is created by means of abrading the jeans and/or treating them with chemicals, such as acryl resin, phenol, a hypochlorite, potassium permanganate, caustic soda, acids etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_washing#Acid-washed_jeans https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Reagan_with_horse.jpg Ronald Reagan wearing stonewash denim associated with Western clothing, 1970s. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 09, 2015, 11:35:28 PM Quote Despite its association with punk fashion, however, the faded effect was copied by many individuals not associated with the subculture, who dipped their jeans in diluted bleach and embellished them with metal studs, embroidery and rhinestones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Strass.jpg Rhinestones on a tiara Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 10:47:37 PM Quote Aurora Borealis tends to reflect whatever color is worn near it, and it is named after the Aurora Borealis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora) atmospheric phenomenon, also known as the "Northern Lights". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Red_and_green_auroras.jpg Red and green auroras, Norway Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 10:51:42 PM Quote The painting Aurora Borealis (see Aurora Borealis) (1865) by American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church is widely interpreted to represent the conflict of the American Civil War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg/800px-Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg An 1863 photo of Gordon, distributed in the North during the war. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 10:54:30 PM Quote Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing) political parties, and later split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding a definite end to its expansion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Citizen_Know_Nothing.jpg/800px-Citizen_Know_Nothing.jpg Citizen Know Nothing: The Know Nothing Party's nativist ideal. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 11:02:18 PM Quote In the late 19th century, Democrats would call the Republicans "Know Nothings" in order to secure the votes of Germans, as in the Bennett Law campaign in Wisconsin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin) in 1890. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Taliesin600.jpg Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Spring Green Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 11:05:51 PM Quote The area draws hundreds of thousands of visitors yearly to its quaint villages, seasonal cherry picking, and fish boils (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_boil). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_boil https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/DoorCountyWI_FishBoilPlatter.jpg/800px-DoorCountyWI_FishBoilPlatter.jpg Platter of Fish Boil, which is traditionally served in Door County. Bonus Link: Door County Dining Must Do--The Door County Fish Boil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZNsoapM6rA) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 11:28:15 PM Quote Salt is the only seasoning used, and used only to raise the specific gravity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_gravity) of the water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_gravity https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/US_Navy_111005-N-ZN781-031_Aviation_Boatswain%27s_Mate_%28Fuel%29_3rd_Class_Rolando_Calilung_tests_for_a_specific_gravity_test_on_JP-5_fuel.jpg/800px-US_Navy_111005-N-ZN781-031_Aviation_Boatswain%27s_Mate_%28Fuel%29_3rd_Class_Rolando_Calilung_tests_for_a_specific_gravity_test_on_JP-5_fuel.jpg Testing specific gravity of fuel. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 11:30:44 PM Quote Specific gravity is commonly used in industry as a simple means of obtaining information about the concentration of solutions of various materials such as brines, hydrocarbons, sugar solutions (syrups, juices, honeys, brewers wort, must (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must) etc.) and acids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Mosto.jpg/800px-Mosto.jpg Grapes being pressed to create must. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 11:35:34 PM Quote In Roman Catholic Eucharistic liturgy, must may be substituted for sacramental wine, on condition that the ordinary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(officer)) has granted permission for the benefit of a priest or lay person who should not, usually because of alcoholism, ingest wine; but in normal circumstances it may not be used in place of wine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(officer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(officer)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Alencastre_Window.jpg Pope Pius XI, depicted in this window at Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu, was ordinary of the universal Church as well as the Diocese of Rome from 1922 to 1939. At the same time, Bishop Stephen Alencastre, Apostolic Vicar of the Sandwich Islands, was the ordinary of what is now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 10, 2015, 11:39:23 PM Quote This is not to say that the Orthodox Church has a Congregationalist polity; on the contrary, the local priest functions as the "hands" of the bishop, and must receive from the bishop an antimension and chrism before he is permitted to celebrate any of the Sacred Mysteries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_mysteries) (sacraments) within the diocese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_mysteries https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Hildesheim_Wrisberg-Epitaph_Mitteltafel.jpg/800px-Hildesheim_Wrisberg-Epitaph_Mitteltafel.jpg Wrisberg epitaph in Hildesheim Cathedral, showing distribution of the divine graces by means of the church and the sacraments, or mysteries. By Johannes Hopffe 1585. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 11, 2015, 07:08:19 AM Quote Although the term "mystery" is not often used in anthropology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology), access by initiation or rite of passage to otherwise secret beliefs is an extremely common feature of indigenous religions all over the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Punu_mask_Gabon.JPG/800px-Punu_mask_Gabon.JPG A Punu tribe mask. Gabon Central Africa Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 11, 2015, 07:15:42 AM Quote Nutritional anthropology is a synthetic concept that deals with the interplay between economic systems, nutritional status and food security (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security), and how changes in the former affect the latter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Goats_are_an_important_part_of_the_solution_to_global_food_security_because_they_are_fairly_low_maintenance_and_easy_to_raise_and_farm.jpg/800px-Goats_are_an_important_part_of_the_solution_to_global_food_security_because_they_are_fairly_low_maintenance_and_easy_to_raise_and_farm.jpg Goats are an important part of the solution to global food security because they are fairly low-maintenance and easy to raise and farm. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 11, 2015, 07:19:50 AM Quote At the food production level, natural disasters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster) and drought result in crop failure and decreased food availability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Tunguska_event_fallen_trees.jpg/1024px-Tunguska_event_fallen_trees.jpg Fallen trees caused by the Tunguska meteoroid of the Tunguska event in June 1908. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 14, 2015, 01:11:45 AM Quote It is believed that Pompeii (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii) was destroyed by a pyroclastic flow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Pompeii-couple.jpg/800px-Pompeii-couple.jpg Portrait of the baker Terentius Neo with his wife found on the wall of a Pompeii house. (Portrait of Paquius Proculo) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 14, 2015, 02:25:35 AM Quote In the 4th century BC, it was fortified. Pompeii remained faithful to Rome during the Second Punic War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Tomb_of_Massinissa_01.jpg Tomb of the Numidian king Massinissa (c. 238–c. 148 BC). Massinissa, leader of the Massyli tribe, was originally an ally of Carthage and fought against the Romans in Iberia. But, after the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC, he switched sides. His support at the Battle of Zama was critical to the Roman victory. Massinissa remained a staunch Roman ally for the rest of his long life. Site: Shoumaa el-Khroub, near Constantine, Algeria Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 14, 2015, 07:03:59 AM Quote At the Ebro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebro), he split the army into three columns and subdued the tribes from there to the Pyrenees within weeks, but with severe losses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebro https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Naixament_Ebre.jpg/800px-Naixament_Ebre.jpg The source of the Ebro in Fontibre. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 14, 2015, 05:42:21 PM Quote Aragonite, a mineral named for Aragon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon), attests to the fact that carbonates are abundant in the central Ebro Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Castiello_de_Lobarre.jpg/800px-Castiello_de_Lobarre.jpg Loarre, one of the most important Romanesque castles in Europe Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 14, 2015, 09:34:41 PM Quote In Summer 2008, the international exposition of Expo 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2008) was held in Zaragoza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2008 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Canal_de_aguas_bravas_de_Zaragoza.jpg/1024px-Canal_de_aguas_bravas_de_Zaragoza.jpg Channel of brave waters Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 14, 2015, 09:40:01 PM Quote Canada's Cirque du Soleil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_du_Soleil) participated with acrobats, actors, gymnasts, singers and musicians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_du_Soleil https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Cirque7.jpg On stage at the 1993 finale of Nouvelle Expérience. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 15, 2015, 09:42:05 PM Quote A new idea became to come shape the performing arts, Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté toured Europe as a folk musician and busker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_performance) after quitting college. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_performance https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Medieval_Busker_Luc_Arbogast.jpg/800px-Medieval_Busker_Luc_Arbogast.jpg Street musician Luc Arbogast in Lyon, France. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 15, 2015, 09:47:24 PM Quote Finally this resulted in Stewart being rounded up and deported from Spain for vagrancy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_(people)) during 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_(people) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Millais-Blind_Girl.jpg/800px-Millais-Blind_Girl.jpg John Everett Millais "The Blind Girl", depicting vagrant musicians Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 15, 2015, 09:50:46 PM Quote In Tudor England, some of those who begged door-to-door for "milk, yeast, drink, pottage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottage)" were thought to be witches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottage https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Vegetable_soup.jpg/1024px-Vegetable_soup.jpg An example of pottage. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 15, 2015, 09:55:41 PM Quote It was a staple food from neolithic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic) times to the Middle Ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Neolithic_house.JPG/800px-Neolithic_house.JPG Reconstruction of Neolithic house in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: benawesome100 on July 16, 2015, 07:29:59 AM I dont get it. it is so much to read and do i can not be stuffed. Sorry :|
Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 16, 2015, 07:41:49 AM I dont get it. it is so much to read and do i can not be stuffed. Sorry :| Yeah, I guess some folks can get overwhelmed by knowledge. Quote Early Neolithic farming was limited to a narrow range of plants, both wild and domesticated, which included einkorn wheat, millet and spelt, and the keeping of dogs, sheep and goats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat#History). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat#History https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Cabrasnortechico.JPG Goat husbandry is common through the Norte Chico region in Chile. Intensive goat husbrandry in drylands may produce severe erosion and desertification. Image from upper Limarí River Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Omikifuse on July 16, 2015, 12:15:39 PM "Goats are among the earliest animals domesticated by humans.[5] The most recent genetic analysis[6] confirms the archaeological evidence that the wild Bezoar ibex of the Zagros Mountains are the likely origin of almost all domestic goats today.[5]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Oshtoran_Kooh.jpg/750px-Oshtoran_Kooh.jpg Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 16, 2015, 07:13:34 PM Quote The most recent genetic analysis confirms the archaeological evidence that the wild Bezoar ibex of the Zagros Mountains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains) are the likely origin of almost all domestic goats today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Oshtoran_Kooh.jpg/1920px-Oshtoran_Kooh.jpg Oshtoran Kooh Mountain Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 16, 2015, 07:18:27 PM Quote The ancestors of many familiar foods, including wheat, barley, lentil, almond, walnut, pistachio, apricot, plum, pomegranate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate) and grape can be found growing wild throughout the mountains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Girl_with_a_pomegranate%2C_by_William_Bouguereau.jpg/800px-Girl_with_a_pomegranate%2C_by_William_Bouguereau.jpg Girl with a pomegranate, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 16, 2015, 07:28:14 PM Quote It is also extensively grown in South China and in Southeast Asia, whether originally spread along the route of the Silk Road (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road) or brought by sea traders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/WhiteHanBronzeMirror.JPG/800px-WhiteHanBronzeMirror.JPG A late Zhou or early Han Chinese bronze mirror inlaid with glass, perhaps incorporated Greco-Roman artistic patterns Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 17, 2015, 04:58:01 AM Quote In addition, the vast grassland steppes of Asia provided fertile grazing, water, and easy passage for caravans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(travellers)), enabling merchants to travel immense distances, from the shores of the Pacific to Africa and deep into Europe, without trespassing on agricultural lands and arousing hostility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(travellers) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(travellers)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Weeks_Edwin_Lord_Arrival_of_a_Caravan_Outside_The_City_of_Morocco.jpg/1024px-Weeks_Edwin_Lord_Arrival_of_a_Caravan_Outside_The_City_of_Morocco.jpg Edwin Lord Weeks, Arrival of a Caravan Outside the City of Morocco Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 17, 2015, 05:01:17 AM Quote An example are the camel trains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_train) traversing the southern edges of the Sahara Desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_train https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Lugou-Bridge-east-end-relief-3577.jpg/800px-Lugou-Bridge-east-end-relief-3577.jpg A modern sculptor's depiction of (the head of) a caravan approaching Beijing, complete with a camel-puller and a mounted caravan master, head cook, or xiansheng riding next to him. In the deserts of Mongolia, one would not see a dignitary in a sedan chair travelling along, nor would a baby camel accompany its mother. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 17, 2015, 05:10:19 AM Quote Once the camel-puller got rich enough to own close to a full file of 18 camels, he could join the caravan not as an employee but as a kind of a partner - now instead of earning wages he would be paying money (around 20 taels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael) per round-trip in 1926) to the owner of (the rest of) the caravan for the benefit of joining the caravan, sharing in the food, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/%E5%BE%8C%E8%97%A4%E5%88%86%E9%8A%851.jpg/800px-%E5%BE%8C%E8%97%A4%E5%88%86%E9%8A%851.jpg Japanese Edo era tael sycees. In descending size, 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, and 2 tael sycees. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 17, 2015, 05:14:15 AM Quote Traditional Chinese silver sycees and other currencies of fine metals were not denominated or made by a central mint (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin)) and their value was determined by their weight in taels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/1831_coining_press_%28M.A.N._1873-22-19%29_01.jpg/800px-1831_coining_press_%28M.A.N._1873-22-19%29_01.jpg French-made coining press from 1831 (M.A.N., Madrid). Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 17, 2015, 07:08:04 PM Quote These were the first truly modern coins; - the mass-production of coinage with steam driven machinery organised in factories (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_system), enabled the achievement of standardized dimensions and uniform weight and roundness, something no counterfeiter of the day could hope to achieve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_system https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/New_Lanark_buildings_2009.jpg/800px-New_Lanark_buildings_2009.jpg New Lanark mill Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 17, 2015, 07:11:56 PM Quote Other products such as nails (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(fastener)) had long been produced in factory workshops, increasingly diversified using the division of labour to increase the efficiency of the system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(fastener) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(fastener)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Nagelfigur_Mannheim_1915.jpg/320px-Nagelfigur_Mannheim_1915.jpg The Iron Roland of Mannheim (1915) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 17, 2015, 07:15:40 PM Quote Once nails became cheap and widely available, they were often used in folk art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_art) and outsider art as a method of decorating a surface with metallic studs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_art https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Darrel_Mortimer_and_his_Biggest_Tattooed_Chillum%2C_San_Francisco_2009.jpg Darrel Mortimer holding 8' tattooed bamboo chillum; photograph by Sally Larsen, 2009 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 19, 2015, 08:01:00 AM Quote For example, Pablo Picasso was inspired by African tribal sculptures and masks, while Natalia Goncharova and others were inspired by traditional Russian popular prints called luboks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubok). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubok https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Babayaga_lubok.jpg A scuffle of Baba Yaga (riding a pig) with the Crocodile. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 19, 2015, 08:04:45 AM Quote Wolves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf), horses, reindeer and other animals are considered to be the ‘helping animals’ to the sorcerers in the woodcuts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Lobo_marcando_su_territorio.jpg/800px-Lobo_marcando_su_territorio.jpg Gray wolf marking its territory with urine Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 19, 2015, 08:08:13 AM Quote It has a long history of association with humans, having been despised and hunted in most pastoral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism) communities due to its attacks on livestock, while conversely being respected in some agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Sameul_Daniell_-_Kora-Khokhoi_preparing_to_move_-_1805.jpg/800px-Sameul_Daniell_-_Kora-Khokhoi_preparing_to_move_-_1805.jpg Khoikhoi dismantling their huts, preparing to move to new pastures. Aquatint by Samuel Daniell (1805). The Khoikhoi practiced pastoralism for thousands of years in southern Africa. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 19, 2015, 07:45:03 PM Quote Grazing herds on savannas can ensure the biodiversity of the savannas and prevent them from evolving into scrubland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Shira_moorlands_on_Kilimanjaro.jpg/800px-Shira_moorlands_on_Kilimanjaro.jpg Moorland on Kilimanjaro Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 19, 2015, 07:47:28 PM Quote Shrubland, scrubland, scrub or brush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous_plant), and geophytes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous_plant https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Trientalis_borealis_1177.JPG/800px-Trientalis_borealis_1177.JPG Trientalis latifolia (Broadleaf Starflower) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ground layer of forests in western North America. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 19, 2015, 07:50:33 PM Quote Others form the main vegetation of many stable habitats, occurring for example in the ground layer of forests, or in naturally open habitats such as meadow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow), salt marsh or desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Blumenwiese_bei_Obermaiselstein05.jpg/800px-Blumenwiese_bei_Obermaiselstein05.jpg Wildflower meadow Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 20, 2015, 07:30:25 PM Quote They often host a multitude of wildlife, providing areas for courtship displays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship_display), nesting, gathering food or sometimes sheltering if the vegetation is high enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship_display https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Male_peacock_spider2.svg/800px-Male_peacock_spider2.svg.png Male peacock spider, Maratus volans, courtship display Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 20, 2015, 07:34:34 PM Quote If a female chooses more than one male, then sperm competition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_competition) comes into play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_competition https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Dunnock_crop2.jpg/800px-Dunnock_crop2.jpg Male dunnocks (Prunella modularis) peck at the female's cloaca, removing sperm of previous mates. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 20, 2015, 07:42:57 PM Quote Bumblebee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee) mating plugs, in addition to providing a physical barrier to further copulations, contain linoleic acid, which reduces re-mating tendencies of females. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/Mrs_tittlemouse.jpg/800px-Mrs_tittlemouse.jpg Beatrix Potter called Babbity Bumble a "bumble bee" in The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1910. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 22, 2015, 01:39:44 AM Quote European bumblebees have been introduced to New Zealand and Tasmania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Tasmanian_Devil_resting.jpg/1024px-Tasmanian_Devil_resting.jpg Although Tasmanian devils are nocturnal, they like to rest in the sun. Scarring from fighting is visible next to this devil's left eye. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 22, 2015, 01:42:48 AM Quote Tasmania has extremely diverse vegetation, from the heavily grazed grassland of the dry Midlands to the tall evergreen eucalypt forest, alpine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_climate) heathlands and large areas of cool temperate rainforests and moorlands in the rest of the state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_climate https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/White_Mountain_CA.JPG/800px-White_Mountain_CA.JPG White Mountain, an alpine environment at 4,300 metres (14,000 ft) in California Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 22, 2015, 01:48:35 AM Quote As the altitude increases, the main form of precipitation becomes snow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow) and the winds increase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg/1024px-BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg Snow on trees, Germany. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 22, 2015, 01:51:52 AM Quote Initial attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography) thousands their images under a microscope from 1885 onward by Wilson Alwyn Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Colonel_William_Willoughby_Verner%2C_Sanger_Shepherd_process%2C_by_Sarah_Acland_1903.png Color photography was possible long before Kodachrome, as this 1903 portrait by Sarah Angelina Acland demonstrates, but in its earliest years the need for special equipment, long exposures and complicated printing processes made it extremely rare. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 25, 2015, 04:09:10 AM Quote Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid) described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/P._Oxy._I_29.jpg/1024px-P._Oxy._I_29.jpg One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 25, 2015, 04:25:56 AM Quote Proclus later retells a story that, when Ptolemy I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter) asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, "Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Prise_de_J%C3%A9rusalem.jpg The taking of Jerusalem by Ptolemy Soter ca. 320 BC, by Jean Fouquet. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 25, 2015, 04:31:21 AM Quote This account is generally accepted by modern scholars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia), although the earliest datable mention of it is from coins issued by Ptolemy II in 263 BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Nalanda_University_India_ruins.jpg Nalanda, ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India from 427 to 1197 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 25, 2015, 11:01:08 PM Quote The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive) grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Old_olive.jpg/1024px-Old_olive.jpg Olive tree in Bar, Montenegro that is over 2,000 years old Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 25, 2015, 11:04:51 PM Quote Rabbits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit) eat the bark of olive trees and can do considerable damage, especially to young trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Rabbit_burrow_entrance.jpg/800px-Rabbit_burrow_entrance.jpg Outdoor entrance to a rabbit burrow Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 25, 2015, 11:09:43 PM Quote The fur is most commonly long and soft, with colors such as shades of brown, gray, and buff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_(colour)). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_(colour) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_(colour)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/George_Washington_by_Peale_1776.jpg/800px-George_Washington_by_Peale_1776.jpg General Washington wearing The Buff and Blue Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 27, 2015, 07:13:40 AM Quote The funnels of the RMS Titanic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic) and all other ships of the White Star Line were designated to be "buff with a black top" in order to indicate their ownership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/La_Circassienne_au_Bain%2C_After_Blondel.JPG/800px-La_Circassienne_au_Bain%2C_After_Blondel.JPG Copy after Merry-Joseph Blondel of the neoclassical oil painting La Circassienne au Bain; the most highly valued single item of cargo lost on the Titanic. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 27, 2015, 07:17:15 AM Quote The plates were laid in a clinkered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinker_(boat_building)) (overlapping) fashion from the keel to the bilge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinker_(boat_building) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinker_(boat_building)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Exhibition_in_Viking_Ship_Museum%2C_Oslo_01.jpg Clinkered prow of the Viking Oseberg ship Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 27, 2015, 07:20:33 AM Quote A head is formed by clenching it over a washer in a swage plate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaging). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaging https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Blacksmith%27s_tools_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1483374.jpg A selection of blacksmithing swages. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 28, 2015, 08:04:02 PM Quote Swaging is normally the method of choice for precious metals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal) since there is no loss of material in the process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Philharmoniker_99_front.jpg/800px-Philharmoniker_99_front.jpg 1 oz Vienna Philharmonic gold coin Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 28, 2015, 08:07:22 PM Quote The statue known as Eros atop the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (1885–1893) in London's Piccadilly Circus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus) is also of cast aluminium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/London_%2C_Kodachrome_by_Chalmers_Butterfield.jpg/800px-London_%2C_Kodachrome_by_Chalmers_Butterfield.jpg Piccadilly Circus in 1949 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 28, 2015, 08:11:55 PM Quote Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect)) on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect)) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Cronkhill_Villa_Cropped.jpg/800px-Cronkhill_Villa_Cropped.jpg Cronkhill Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 30, 2015, 12:46:11 AM Quote In 1781 Nash instigated action against Jane for separation on grounds of adultery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Anneboleyn2.jpg Anne Boleyn was found guilty of adultery and treason and executed in 1536. There is controversy among historians as to whether she had actually committed adultery. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 30, 2015, 12:49:33 AM Quote Furthermore, Deuteronomic code prescribes stoning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning) not only for female extramarital sex, but also for female premarital sex in the case where the woman lies about her virginity: Quote If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, … and say, / I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid. / … But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: / Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Du%27a_Khalil_Aswad.jpg Du'a Khalil Aswad was stoned to death in Iraq Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on July 30, 2015, 12:52:40 AM Quote Amnesty International (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International) later learned that the girl was in fact 13 years old and had been arrested by al-Shabab militia after she had reported being gang-raped by three men. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Goodwin_House2.JPG/800px-Goodwin_House2.JPG The Amnesty Canadian headquarters in Ottawa. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 03, 2015, 07:59:50 PM Quote The organisation was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize) for its "campaign against torture," and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Dalai_Lama_and_Bishop_Tutu._Carey_Linde.jpg The 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureates Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 03, 2015, 08:03:21 PM Quote From 1901 to 1904, the ceremony took place in the Storting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storting_building) (Parliament) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storting_building https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Wilhelm_von_Hanno%2C_Stortingsbygning_-_2012-03-04_at_13-37-51.jpg/800px-Wilhelm_von_Hanno%2C_Stortingsbygning_-_2012-03-04_at_13-37-51.jpg The proposal by Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno that won the 1856 competition, but was finally rejected by the Storting. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 03, 2015, 08:08:23 PM Quote The building is built in yellow brick with details and basement in light gray granite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/The_Cheesewring.jpg/800px-The_Cheesewring.jpg The Cheesewring, a granite tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: notbatman on August 04, 2015, 03:35:05 PM Quote Fractional crystallisation serves to reduce a melt in iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium and sodium, and enrich the melt in potassium and silicon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon) – alkali feldspar (rich in potassium) and quartz (SiO2), are two of the defining constituents of granite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/SiliconCroda.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Silicon_Spectra.jpg Spectral lines of silicon Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: notbatman on August 04, 2015, 03:35:12 PM Quote Silica is often deposited in plant tissues, such as in the bark and wood of Chrysobalanaceae and the silica cells and silicified trichomes of Cannabis sativa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa), horsetails and many grasses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Sativa.jpg The flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plant Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 05, 2015, 02:30:21 AM Quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/SiliconCroda.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Silicon_Spectra.jpg Spectral lines of silicon Quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Sativa.jpg The flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plant With the exception of quoting more than one sentencing, thanks for the otherwise excellent contributions, notbatman. Nice leapfrogging as well: Granite --> Weed. 8) Quote Cannabis strains with relatively high CBD:THC ratios are less likely to induce anxiety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety) than vice versa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Emperor_Traianus_Decius_%28Mary_Harrsch%29.jpg A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Decius from the Capitoline Museum. This portrait "conveys an impression of anxiety and weariness, as of a man shouldering heavy [state] responsibilities". Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 05, 2015, 02:44:11 AM Quote The theologian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology) Paul Tillich characterized existential anxiety as "the state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing" and he listed three categories for the nonbeing and resulting anxiety: ontic (fate and death), moral (guilt and condemnation), and spiritual (emptiness and meaninglessness). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Sandro_Botticelli_050.jpg/800px-Sandro_Botticelli_050.jpg Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Latin theologian. His writing on free will and original sin remains influential in Western Christendom. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 05, 2015, 02:47:53 AM Quote Christian theology’s preeminent place in the university began to be challenged during the European Enlightenment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment), especially in Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Frans_Hals_-_Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes.jpg/800px-Frans_Hals_-_Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes.jpg French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 05, 2015, 02:52:09 AM Quote Frederick the Great (1712–86), the king of Prussia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia) 1740–1786, saw himself as a leader of the Enlightenment and patronized philosophers and scientists at his court in Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Corona_Prusia-mj2.jpg/800px-Corona_Prusia-mj2.jpg Prussian King's Crown (Hohenzollern Castle Collection) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 06, 2015, 07:04:11 AM Quote The main coat of arms of Prussia, as well as the flag of Prussia, depicted a black eagle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_eagle) on a white background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_eagle https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Purple-faced_leaf_monkey_juvenile_attacked_by_a_Black_eagle_and_dead.jpg/1024px-Purple-faced_leaf_monkey_juvenile_attacked_by_a_Black_eagle_and_dead.jpg Purple-faced leaf monkey juvenile attacked by a Black eagle and dead Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 06, 2015, 07:07:17 AM Quote The Indian giant squirrel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giant_squirrel) has been noted as a prey of this species and young bonnet macaques may also fall prey to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giant_squirrel https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Malabar_Giant_Squirrel.JPG/800px-Malabar_Giant_Squirrel.JPG Photograph of Ratufa indicus, taken in the Malabar Region of southwest India. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 06, 2015, 07:10:44 AM Quote The underparts and the front legs are usually cream colored, the head can be brown or beige (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige), however there is a distinctive white spot between the ears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/ATTtelephone-large.jpg A "beige" AT&T telephone. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 07, 2015, 12:09:36 AM Quote Cosmic latte is a name assigned in 2002 to the average color of the universe (derived from a sampling of the electromagnetic radiation from 200,000 galaxies), given by a team of astronomers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer) from Johns Hopkins University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/JohannesVermeer-TheAstronomer%281668%29.jpg/800px-JohannesVermeer-TheAstronomer%281668%29.jpg The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668) <nobatman in 5...4...3... :P> Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 07, 2015, 12:12:09 AM Quote An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as black holes, moons, planets, stars, asteroids, comets, nebulae and galaxies, as well as Gamma-ray bursts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst) and cosmic microwave background radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/GRB080319B_illustration_NASA.jpg/614px-GRB080319B_illustration_NASA.jpg Artist's illustration of a bright gamma-ray burst occurring in a star-forming region. Energy from the explosion is beamed into two narrow, oppositely directed jets. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 07, 2015, 12:15:30 AM Quote Depending on its distance from Earth, a GRB and its ultraviolet radiation could damage even the most radiation resistant organism known, the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Deinococcus_radiodurans.jpg/521px-Deinococcus_radiodurans.jpg A tetrad of D. radiodurans Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 09, 2015, 07:27:26 PM Quote It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid, and is therefore known as a polyextremophile and has been listed as the world's toughest bacterium in The Guinness Book Of World Records (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Lucky_Diamond_Rich_face.jpg/800px-Lucky_Diamond_Rich_face.jpg Lucky Diamond Rich is "the world's most tattooed person", and has tattoos covering his entire body. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 09, 2015, 07:30:51 PM Quote Chain letters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_letter) are also not allowed: "Guinness World Records does not accept any records relating to chain letters, sent by post or e-mail. If you receive a letter or an e-mail, which may promise to publish the names of all those who send it on, please destroy it, it is a hoax. No matter if it says that Guinness World Records and the postal service are involved, they are not." <apologies for the breaking the rule of ONLY one sentence, but a quote was in play, thus...> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_letter https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Chain_Letter_from_Heaven.jpg/1024px-Chain_Letter_from_Heaven.jpg Top portion of a "Letter from Heaven," produced in England. Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 09, 2015, 07:35:51 PM Quote Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast) pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient with bad luck or even physical violence or death if he or she "breaks the chain" and refuses to adhere to the conditions set out in the letter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Internet_map_1024_-_transparent%2C_inverted.png/800px-Internet_map_1024_-_transparent%2C_inverted.png An Opte Project visualization of routing paths through a portion of the Internet Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 09, 2015, 07:39:17 PM Quote According to the FAQ of the net.legends Usenet news group, Dave Rhodes was a student at Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University), a Seventh-day Adventist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church) college in Maryland, who wrote the letter and uploaded it as a text file to a nearby BBS around 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Lake_Whitney_from_Lake_Whitney_Ranch.jpg/800px-Lake_Whitney_from_Lake_Whitney_Ranch.jpg View from Lake Whitney Seventh-day Adventist camp Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: zerorabbit23 on August 10, 2015, 12:43:26 AM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/95Thesen.jpg/150px-95Thesen.jpg Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 10, 2015, 01:39:52 AM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/95Thesen.jpg/150px-95Thesen.jpg Nice try, and thanks kindly for the input, but... Quote Adventist doctrine resembles trinitarian Protestant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism) theology, with premillennial and Arminian emphases. Adventists uphold teachings such as the infallibility of Scripture, the substitutionary atonement, the resurrection of the dead and justification by faith alone, and are therefore often considered evangelical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/95Thesen.jpg (The Ninety-Five Theses) Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 10, 2015, 01:43:03 AM Quote The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches, while Evangelical Protestant and Black churches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_church) are stable or continue to grow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_church https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Negro_Baptist_Church_Silver_Hill_Plantation.jpg African American Baptist Church, Silver Hill Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 10, 2015, 01:48:25 AM Quote With the rapid growth of black Baptist churches in the South (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States), in 1895 church officials organized a new Baptist association, the National Baptist Convention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/A_Home_on_the_Mississippi.png/1024px-A_Home_on_the_Mississippi.png A Home on the Mississippi, Currier and Ives, 1871 Title: Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 10, 2015, 01:53:17 AM Quote Southeastern United States: usually including the Carolinas, the Virginias, Tennessee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee), Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and at times Maryland and Delaware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Roadway_in_David_Crockett_State_Park_%28Autumn_2008_-_Horizontal_Image%29.jpg/800px-Roadway_in_David_Crockett_State_Park_%28Autumn_2008_-_Horizontal_Image%29.jpg Autumn in Tennessee. Roadway to Lindsey Lake in David Crockett State Park, located a half mile west of Lawrenceburg |
