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A quotation from La Bruyere

If it is usual to be strongly impressed with things rare and extraordinary, how comes it then that Virtue is taken so little notice of?

[S’il est ordinaire d’être vivement touché des choses rares, pourquoi le sommes-nous si peu de la vertu?]

Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) French essayist, moralist
The Characters [Les Caractères], ch. 2 “Of Personal Merit [Du Mérite Personnel],” § 20 (2.20) (1688) [Browne ed. (1752)]

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#WHYFILES

"AJ talks about the #KuiperBelt and #objects with #unusual movements.

A large portion of the video covers Rebecca Rose's twenty and back experience. She was targeted for her psychic abilities and eventually sold to the Draconian Empire. They have a psychic ability to freeze people and they feel like throwing-up and crapping themselves. That matches what happened recently on a plane that had to make an emergency landing. Corey Goode was mentioned and to me it looks like he was used to suppress other whistleblowers with his trademark scheme."

10/26/23

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XLhMi6YEhsQ

J'ai vu une trouée dans le boisé qui longe les voies du CP, alors qu'on s'était arrêtés pour bouffer nos sandwichs sur un bloc de béton, dans un terrain vague...
Le-la responsable de la trouée y a laissé son outil suspendu à une branche...

© Réjean Leroux 2023
Photo du 22 mai — #mywork, #myphoto, #photo, #photographie, #photography, #foto #amateur, #couleur, #gimp, #Montreal, #Montréal, #urbanex, #unusual, #insolite

20 Unusual Uses for Lemon Juice
Lemons are more than just garnish and the basis for sugary drinks. These 20 unusual uses for lemon juice will clean and freshen your house and soothe your ills.

http://ecosalon.com/20-unusual-uses-for-lemon-juice-438/

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Prochaine étape: four et frigo? :-)

© Réjean Leroux 2022
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Photographer Captures Beautiful and Quirky Pet Portraits

#features #spotlight #awardwinning #catrace #dogs #kennelclub #petportraits #pets #unusual

Photographer Captures Eerie 'Tree Creatures' on Snowy Mountain | PetaPixel

Jan Erik Waider, a fine art photographer from Hamburg, has captured monster-like formations created by snow and ice blanketing the evergreen vegetation in the upper reaches of the Harz Mountains in northern Germany.

#photography #trees #snow #interesting #unusual

Some interesting, unusual photos. In the first one, the mother talks to the daughter while the father bends down to stroke the dog. At least, that's what I see. How about you?

https://petapixel.com/2022/02/20/photographer-captures-eerie-tree-creatures-on-snowy-mountain/

Hubble Captures ‘Gravitational Tug-of-War’ Between Three Galaxies

NASA has published a spectacular image that was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows what the space organization describes as a three-way tug-of-war between interacting galaxies.

Hubble captured the dramatic triplet of galaxies -- which is known as Arp 195 -- and is featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which is a list that shows some of the stranger and weirder, though no less wonderful, galaxies in the universe.

That Atlas was written by Halton Arp and published by the California Institute of Technology in 1966 and contains a total of 338 galaxies. The entire purpose of the Atlas was to show photographs of different kinds of odd or unusual structures found in galaxies in the universe. While there are many photos of unique galaxies found in that Atlas, this latest photo shows Arp 195, which is located in the Lynx constellation about 747 million light-years from Earth.

Hubble's back! 🎉

After the Hubble team successfully turned on backup hardware aboard the telescope, the observatory got back to work over the weekend and took these galaxy snapshots.

Find out more here: https://t.co/2mWwSGyIKc pic.twitter.com/Y6tVQWrjig

-- Hubble (@NASAHubble) July 19, 2021

Hubble's team originally posted the black and white version of the photo on July 19 which was featured as part of the celebration of the satellite's return to full functionality after it went offline for over a month due to a software error. On June 13, 2021, Hubble went offline due to a glitch in its payload computer and NASA's team spent weeks attempting to fix it. The error almost took down the legendary satellite for good, but scientists were able to bring Hubble back from the brink on July 16.

Observing time with Hubble is extremely valuable, so astronomers don't want to waste a second. The schedule for Hubble observations is calculated using a computer algorithm which allows the spacecraft to occasionally gather bonus snapshots of data between longer observations. This image of the clashing triplet of galaxies in Arp 195 is one such snapshot. Extra observations such as these do more than provide spectacular images – they also help to identify promising targets to follow up with using telescopes such as the upcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

Galactic siblings fight, too.

This #HubbleFriday view shows a triplet of galaxies, called Arp 195, caught in a gravitational tug-of-war game.

It’s featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which showcases some of the weirder galaxies in the universe: https://t.co/3hYBoCsc66 pic.twitter.com/SDSHazfgYc

-- Hubble (@NASAHubble) July 30, 2021

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Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton

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Baarle: The town where borders run riot

In Baarle, a town on the Belgian-Dutch border, national borders run through private homes, restaurants, cafes, museums and galleries.

But establishing the national borders did not make the situation in Baarle any simpler. On the contrary: Many streets, parks, car parks, shops, galleries and even houses were now part Belgian and part Dutch. To avoid constant arguments it was agreed that the nationality of a house's residents would be determined by the location of the front door.

"With talks, patience and, most of all, a great readiness to listen first, we mostly come up with a solution. You can achieve a lot by talking with those involved, thinking logically and being friendly," Frans de Bont, the mayor of Belgian Baarle, tells DW.

https://www.dw.com/en/baarle-the-town-where-borders-run-riot/a-57631603

#Baarle #Belgium #Netherlands #borders #cooperation #Dutch #unusual #nationality

A while ago I started to style our living room in some kind of forest look. At first our houseplants were accompanied with some forest-themed knick-knackery and I painted our furniture. Then I added some real branches from the woods nearby. But now I am taking it to the next level - the trees are coming in! If you want to put something other than pictures on your wall, just take a roll of packing paper, some ink, water and a paintbrush - there you go :D
#workinprogress #justdoit #unusual #cozyhome #naturalliving #diy #sustainableart #thingsfromscrap #forestlife #painting #drawing #ink #watercolour #myart #gwennygloom #thelittlethings #letitgrow