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[PATRIMOINE] Saint-Floret (Puy-de-Dôme) : un des plus beaux villages de France empreint d’histoire ► http://bit.ly/Saint-Floret
Du Moyen-Âge jusqu’au XXe siècle, ce village près d’Issoire dans le Puy-de-Dôme, possède un patrimoine particulièrement riche et parfois inattendu
#SaintFloret #Puy-de-Dôme #Auvergne #beaux #villages #Issoire #patrimoine
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Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams Answer Rapid-Fire Questions | Cosmo Goes Deep
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Orangework Lennson 3C, 2017. A custom-built, off-road camper van based on a Mercedes-Benz G-Class G 320 CDI, designed for expedition travel, featuring a compact living space built on a lifted G-Wagon’s chassis.
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Costume armor and sword in the classical style. French, c. 1788–90. Various materials. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the Met:
Pageants in pseudoclassical dress were popular in Europe from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. An elaborate costume of the kind displayed here may have been worn for a theatrical performance or a court festivity, such as a ball or carousel in which the theme was taken from classical mythology or history. The embroidered tunic represents an embossed bronze cuirass of the type worn by high-ranking Roman officers. The stylized Greek helmet is richly decorated with mythological and allegorical figures. Inside the helmet is the original paper label that identifies the Parisian maker as Halle dit Mercier and advertises his ability to provide helmets, shields, masks, costumes, and scenery for any occasion.
Source: metmuseum.org
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The Gimli Glider! So many things came together to make this safe landing:
- The co-pilot was a local and knew all the local airstrips
- ...including the decommissioned 10,000 foot military runway they ultimately chose as their destination
- ...but because it had been decommissioned, was now utilized by a local go-kart club for racing
- ...which, on that day, was indeed having a great time racing go-karts on the old runway
- ...and because there was no way to alert the people on the ground and the plane’s approach was utterly silent (NO ENGINES) with kids in go-karts were whizzing around on the runway, the final approach was, shall we say, alarming
- ...until a parent looked up and noticed a giant fucking airplane getting bigger and bigger
- OH GOD HE’S LANDING HERE
- Thus within seconds the whole area was cleared by frantic parents
- Plane lands perfectly, but without power they had to drop the gear via gravity and the nose wheel failed to lock into place
- Front gear collapses
- Plane screeches to a halt, and because they landed at a go-kart event pretty much every dad has a fire extinguisher, so they manage to extinguish the small fire caused by friction
- The only minor injuries were due to passengers jumping from the emergency exit slides, which dangled off the ground due to elevated tail height
If you have 27 spare minutes and want an excruciatingly detailed, technical breakdown of what happened as told by a real pilot, here’s the Mentour Pilot episode on the Gimli Glider.
I read an article about this back around 1990 and my favorite part was that, after landing and stopping, the pilots were reflexively going through the “crash landing” checklist, shutting down all the fuel pumps and lines to prevent a fire from spreading, until it dawned on them halfway through that they didn’t need to do those steps because the tanks were quite empty.
How did Dogma, a relatively low-budget film, manage to have the only good-looking angel wings? Like, even movies with tons of FX dollars tend to fuck them up and they look bad. These are very stylized, and you can tell they’re not real feathers, but they actually look… better than real feathers? They have a balance of curvature and sharp angles that just make for a great silhouette and they move wonderfully. I cannot figure this out!!
e: I looked on The Internet
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I don’t know this show but that’s a fucking practical effect??! Better than most cg. Holy shit.
Please go look up the Crooked Feather. They make practical wings! They are so cool. Someday…. Someday I will have a pair 😂
This is great. You can see how much effort it takes Baffleck with his core muscles to keep his posture upright when they wings are moving. Which I love, because having enormous, working wings would put a huge strain on a humanoid body. It’s good when things don’t seem effortless.
Honestly just reblogging an excise to add these. Alan Rickman in eyeliner and wings? Yes please.
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Anonymous asked:
“Just with friends, I don’t feel like I am fully able to be earnest with them if I don’t establish a touch barrier with them — consensually, of course!” Williams said with a laugh. “But the similarity for me and Shane is that, especially when we’re in love, there needs to be constant touching even when the scene isn’t intimate in that sort of way.”
https://www.swooon.com/1247245/heated-rivalry-connor-storrie-hudson-williams-interview-shane-ilya-intimacy/
Oh boiiiiiiii
