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Stobnica Castle, Poland 🏰
The monumental 15-storey structure is situated on a partially man-made island on Lake Stobnica in the Notecka Forest.
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Stobnica Castle, Poland 🏰
The monumental 15-storey structure is situated on a partially man-made island on Lake Stobnica in the Notecka Forest.
Photographer: @areckinthesky
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Where pigeons get their sense of direction
Pigeons (Columba livia) seem to be able to sense magnetic fields by detecting tiny electrical currents in their inner ears.
Researchers performed advanced brain mapping as well single-cell RNA sequencing of pigeon inner-ear cells. Both lines of evidence point to the inner ear as the birds’ ‘magnetoreception’ organ. Such an organ gives the birds an ‘inner compass’ that could help to explain their navigational nous over long distances.
“This is probably the clearest demonstration of the neural pathways responsible for magnetic processing in any animal,” says sensory biology researcher Eric Warrant.
Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Alfred H. Osman had a long-standing interest in racing pigeons: in 1898, he abandoned his career as a lawyer’s clerk and established and became first editor of the Racing Pigeon, a weekly magazine still in publication today.
In his 1928 volume, Pigeons in the Great War, Osman described the carrier pigeon service as “practically infallible” and gave an unsubstantiated delivery success rate of 95-99%.
The advantages of pigeons are clear: they could fly silently through the air without indication of place of departure or destination; they did not have difficulties with shellfire or gas, and were remarkably resilient against gunfire while on the wing; they were quicker than runners, mounted orderlies or dogs; they could easily fly distances of over 50 miles; finally, they were more easily replaced than alternatives such as horses or men.
However, carrier pigeons did have some flaws: while they could be released from anywhere without the aid of wires or equipment, they had only one location of arrival – their home roost or loft.
Additionally, carrier pigeons were not necessarily scalable: it took around six weeks to train a carrier pigeon as to where their home roost or loft was located.
Furthermore, pigeons could only be used to carry short messages and so were mostly used on the frontline for espionage and for emergency messages.
Source: Nature and Science Museum
Pictures: The Pigeon Spy and His Work in War from Popular Science monthly, 1916. Image available in the public domain via Internet Archive.
British Army staff bandaging the leg of a carrier pigeon which returned wounded with a message.
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"It's a good day to dive". 🤿
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Tiny fish make a BIG difference. 🌊🐟
Forage fish — like sardines, capelin, and herring — may be small, but they power entire ocean ecosystems and support coastal communities worldwide.
That’s why Oceana fights to rebuild and protect these essential species. Our wins — from stronger catch limits to new rebuilding plans — are helping depleted populations recover and restoring ocean abundance.
On World Fisheries Day, we’re grateful for the progress so far — and committed to restoring ocean abundance for generations to come. Learn more about our work and how you can help: 
ArtnetNews: Guitarist Ronnie Wood’s new paintings celebrate his 50th year with the Rolling Stones.
In 1973, with the deep wisdom of his mid-20s, Ronnie Wood helped pen the lyrics: “I wish that I knew what I knew now, when I was younger.” They were for the song, “Ooh La La,” a classic for Wood’s then-band, The Faces. What could Wood possibly have known then? Two years later, he officially joined the Rolling Stones, and the rest is history.
This year marks Wood’s 50th anniversary with the band, and he’s released new artworks to celebrate the occasion. His Paint It Black series, which feature himself and his bandmates, went on view earlier this week at Redhouse Gallery in Harrogate in the U.K., and signed, personalized prints of the paintings are available from the Redhouse Originals Gallery in limited editions of 100, priced at £1,250 ($1,630) each.
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Born on this day in 1941, Dr John,
(Malcolm John Rebennack), US R&B pianist, guitarist, singer. He wrote 'I Walk On Guilded Splinters.'
Active as a session musician from the late 1950s until his death, he gained a following in the late 1960s after the release of his album Gris-Gris and his appearance at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music.
Rebennack recorded thirty studio albums and nine live albums, as well as contributing to thousands of other musicians' recordings.
In 1973, he achieved a top-10 hit single with 'Right Place, Wrong Time'. He died of a heart attack on 6 June 2019 age 77.
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Carved into a sheer mountainside nearly 2,200 years ago, the 'Bhaja Caves' in India raise a simple but staggering question: how did ancient craftsmen pull this off with nothing but hand tools?
These rock-cut monasteries feature perfectly rounded columns, vaulted ceilings, and a massive chaitya hall carved out of solid basalt — all done without metal drills, electric lighting, or modern surveying equipment. Every surface had to be shaped by hammer, chisel, and sheer endurance, yet the symmetry and acoustic design still hold up today.
We know Buddhist monks and artisans built them during the 2nd century BC, but the exact logistics — how many workers, how long it took, or the methods used to keep everything perfectly aligned in dark, confined rock — remain unclear. The caves stand as one of those ancient engineering achievements that remind us just how skilled early builders really were.
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Lose Control
Song by Teddy Swims ‧ 2023
Something's got a hold of me lately
No, I don't know myself anymore
Feels like the walls are all closing in
And the devil's knocking at my door, whoa
Out of my mind, how many times
Did I tell you I'm no good at being alone?
Yeah, it's taking a toll on me, trying my best to keep
From tearing the skin off my bones, don't you know
I lose control
When you're not next to me
I'm falling apart right in front of you, can't you see?
I lose control
When you're not next to me, mm-hmm
Yeah, you're breaking my heart, baby
You make a mess of me
Problematic
Problem is I want your body like a fiend, like a bad habit
Bad habit's hard to break when I'm with you
Yeah, I know, I could do it on my own, but I want
That real full moon black magic and it takes two
Problematic
Problem is, when I'm with you, I'm an addict
And I need some relief, my skin in your teeth
Can't see the forest through the trees
Got me down on my knees, darling, please, oh
I lose control
When you're not next to me
I'm falling apart right in front of you, can't you see?
I lose control
When you're not next to me, mm-hmm
Yeah, you're breaking my heart, baby
You make a mess of me, yeah
I lose control
When you're not here with me, mm
I'm falling apart right in front of you, can't you see?
I lose control
When you're not here with me, mm-hmm
Yeah, you're breaking my heart, baby
You make a mess of me
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On November 21, 1980, 350 million people around the world tune in to television’s popular primetime drama “Dallas” to find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate.
J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous March 21, which now stands as one of television’s most famous cliffhangers. The plot twist inspired widespread media coverage and left America wondering “Who shot J.R.?” for the next eight months. The November 21 episode solved the mystery, identifying Kristin Shepard, J.R. ’s wife’s sister-in-law and his former mistress, as the culprit.
The CBS television network debuted the first five-episode pilot season of “Dallas” in 1978; it went on to run for another 12 full-length seasons. The first show of its kind, “Dallas” was dubbed a “primetime soap opera” for its serial plots and dramatic tales of moral excess.
The show revolved around the relations of two Texas oil families: the wealthy, successful Ewing family and the perpetually down-on-their-luck Barnes family. The families’ patriarchs, Jock Ewing and Digger Barnes, were former partners locked in a years-long feud over oil fields Barnes claimed had been stolen by Ewing.
Ewing’s youngest son Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and Barnes’ daughter Pam (Victoria Principal) had married, linking the battling clans even more closely.
The character of J.R. Ewing, Bobby’s oldest brother and a greedy, conniving, womanizing scoundrel, was played by Larry Hagman.
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The Porcelain Room of the Santos Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, is famous for its ceiling, laid out between 1664 and 1687 CE with more than 250 Chinese porcelain plates, almost all of them decorated in blue and white.
Suicide was historically considered a crime in many Western cultures for centuries, largely due to a combination of religious condemnation and feudal law.
In ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome, suicide was often prohibited and bodies were sometimes abandoned or denied normal burial rites, especially for soldiers and slaves.
In England and Wales, it was a common law felony from around the mid-13th century until it was decriminalized by the Suicide Act 1961.
For the act of suicide itself, the penalties were applied posthumously:
The deceased was denied a Christian burial on consecrated ground. Instead, the body was typically interred in unconsecrated ground, often at a crossroads and in the dead of night, sometimes with a stake driven through the heart.
This practice was intended to be a public deterrent and was a profound disgrace to the family. This specific punishment was abolished in England by the Burial of Suicide Act of 1823.
The deceased's property was forfeited to the Crown, a punishment that could render the surviving family members destitute.
This financial penalty remained on the statute books until it was finally abolished in 1870.
To avoid these harsh penalties on the family, coroners' juries increasingly returned verdicts of non compos mentis (of unsound mind), which meant the individual was not held criminally responsible for their actions. This practice largely rendered the most severe legal sanctions a "dead letter law" long before they were officially abolished.
In the US, many states derived their laws from English common law.
While suicide is no longer a crime in the US, some states, like Maryland, have used old common laws to prosecute people for attempted suicide as recently as 2018.
The reasons for criminalizing suicide evolved over time, rooted in both religious and secular beliefs:
Early Christian thinkers like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas condemned suicide as a mortal sin and an act against God's will and authority, arguing that life was a gift from the Creator and taking it away showed ultimate disregard for Him.
The Church denied Christian burial rites to those who died by suicide as a punishment.
In feudal times, individuals were considered subjects of the king or the state.
Suicide was viewed as a "felon of himself" (felo de se in Latin) and a crime against the Crown because it deprived the king of a subject and potential soldier or laborer.
In the 19th century, as religious and legal sanctions softened, suicide became more associated with disgrace and mental illness.
The stigma primarily affected the surviving family, who often kept the cause of death a secret.
The eventual decriminalization of suicide came with the growing understanding of mental health issues and a shift in societal attitudes from punishment to compassion and the recognition of an individual's right to their own body and life.
Picture: In Christian Europe, people were terrified that someone in their family would commit suicide, because the government's punishment was merciless.
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