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(DIR) Post #AJIu4RdbPx0PrZdP8K by GhostPost@kiwifarms.cc
2022-05-10T08:33:43.735145Z
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The Sedlec Ossuary, or Czech Church of BonesPart of the former Sedlec Abbey located in Kutna Hora, the Czech Republic, this Roman Catholic chapel contains the remains of between forty and seventy thousand people. In many cases, the remains of these people have been artfully arranged into grim works of art. History In the year one thousand two hundred and seventy eight, the abbot of the Sedlec Cistercian monastery was sent to the Holy Land by King Otakar the Second of Bohemia. Returning with a small pouch of soil from Golgotha, he sprinkled it over the abbey cemetery, making it a desirable burial place. Near the year one thousand four hundred, a Gothic church was built in the center of the cemetery with a vaulted upper level and a lower chapel to be used as a ossuary for the mass graves unearthed during its construction. This role was taken on by a half-blind monk of the abbey. Between seventeen oh one and seventeen ten, a new entrance was constructed to support the front wall which had begun to lean and the chapel was rebuilt by Jan Santini Aichel. In eighteen seventy, Frantisek Rint, a woodcarver, was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to put the bone heaps into order. Rint commemorated the dead by arranging them into macabre memento mori. Pictured The exterior of the ossuary and chapel. A chandelier containing at least one of every bone in the human body hangs from the center of the chapel nave, surrounded by garlands of human skulls. The Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms is present, fashioned from the bones of the deceased. Coins are often left by human skulls. The Signature of the designer, Czech woodcarver and carpenter, Frantisek Rint.
(DIR) Post #AJKLdYWUhZCBH1EiP2 by GhostPost@kiwifarms.cc
2022-05-11T01:23:53.931138Z
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**__Minke Whales__**Minke Whales are the smallest of the Rorquals. Divided into two species, the Common or Northern Minke and the Dwarf or Antarctic Minke, their populations are spread across the globe, divided loosely by the equator. Hybrid species exist on this boundary. The whales primarily subsist on pelagic crustaceans. They migrate to the poles from the tropics and back again, following cold waters. Breeding in summer and gestating for ten months, the nearly 3 meter Minke calves will nurse for roughly one year.Orca are their primary predators. A 1970's study showing that of 49 sampled Orca stomachs, 84% had preyed on mink. The strategy of a Mink to avoid this fate is to attempt a flight response. Those caught don't seem to fight back as they're killed by the predators and though they will attempt to use human vessels as a means of cover to hide from the Orca, it's rarely successful. Historically their small size (10 meters or 32 feet) made them an unprofitable target of whalers, as they provided comparatively little meat and oil for the work they required to kill. In the 20th century however, with the advent of more industrialized hunting methods they became an attractive target as hunting became easier and other whale populations crashed. Thanks to the late interest of whalers, the Minke Whales managed to escape the harsh decline faced by their fellow cetaceans and today have robust populations that are capable of supporting traditional whaling methods to sustain indigenous groups, though Japan still disregard limits in the name of JARPA research, leading to a gradual decline in the animals population. The Common Mink is classified as Least Concern, thanks to JARPA efforts the Dwarf Minke is now Near Threatened, though hundreds of thousands of animals still remain.
(DIR) Post #AJKWzg2UXKpMS0xBbs by GhostPost@kiwifarms.cc
2022-05-11T03:36:37.508909Z
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@Prodigal @numberonedonaldtrumpfan @theblessing Africans cannot be goth as they're embraced by mainstream are not possessed of the cultural heritage of Gothic architecture, literature or poetry and further lack the understanding that memento mori is not another shade of whatever; "muhfugga ahm gun keel yoo fo dat paypah," is.
(DIR) Post #AJKX4zG0Vo7nVCo7qy by GhostPost@kiwifarms.cc
2022-05-11T03:37:35.230644Z
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@theblessing @Prodigal Horse girls have broken my heart so many times.
(DIR) Post #AJMPjLMtJQd6LQgCwK by GhostPost@kiwifarms.cc
2022-05-12T01:24:16.816017Z
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The Tamám Shud Case, Part OneIt’s the early evening, Somerton Park beach, a man in his forties lays straight out on his back, head against the seawall. He’s across from the crippled children’s home, looking out to sea in business clothes. Early witness reports him as having murmured drunkenly to them as they passed by, but by half past six, first of December, nineteen forty eight, the man would be reported dead. A search of his pockets would reveal an unlit cigarette, an unused railway ticket from Adelaide to Henley Beach, a used bus ticket, a narrow comb made in the US, a half empty packet of gum an Army Club cigarette packet with 7 cigarettes, a quarter box of matches.Of Britisher appearance, he was described by the pathologist as being in top physical condition, 5’11” tall, grey eyes, fair ginger hair, broad shoulders and a narrow waist. His hands and nails showed no obvious sign of labor, his toes met in a wedge shape as would a dancers and had the calf muscles characteristic of a man who often wore the high heeled boots and shoes of a ballet performer. Vessels of the brain not commonly observed were plainly visible with congestion, his pharynx was congested, an ulcer marked his muscosa and was surrounded by white discoloration, blood mixed with food in his stomach, the vessels of his liver were dilated and the microscopic structures had been destroyed, his spleen was strikingly large (3 times normal size.)No foreign substances were present. His final meal was a pasty. Prof. Cedric Stanton Hicks, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide would testify that cadenolide-type cardiac glycosides Digitalis and Ouabain could have slain the man, and remained undetected, even if their presence were suspected beforehand. Weeks later, the words; Tamám Shud, Turkish for “the end” was found in the sewn closed fob pocket of his American-tailored pants. After an Australia wide inquest, the book this text came from would be discovered: the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. In the book, a code had been penned in:WRGOABABDMLIAOIWTBIMPANETPxMLIABOAIAQCITTMTSAMSTGABThe enduring mystery of who this man was refused to relent despite police inquest. Out of desperation, a plaster cast was made of the man’s head. PicturedX marks the spot; the location of the Somerton Man’s body. The deceased. The scrap of paper found sewn into his fob pocket.The code found written into the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(DIR) Post #AJMRSZ4JJztNox7Ex6 by GhostPost@kiwifarms.cc
2022-05-12T01:42:49.014921Z
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@mushroom_soup @vile
(DIR) Post #AJMSR6WQ4VLMww8BJQ by GhostPost@kiwifarms.cc
2022-05-12T01:51:02.143169Z
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The Byron Bay Lighthouse Constructed at the turn of the nineteenth century to protect ships passing along Australia’s east coast, Cape Byron Lighthouse stands watch on the continent’s most eastern point. The lighthouse was operated by resident keepers until 1989, it is now automated.