Cartoonist Al Capp could be quite a vindictive ass. He hated young hippies and anti-war protesters, yet hit on Goldie Hawn.
He made fun of Joan Baez in Li'l Abner in 1966 calling her Joanie Phoanie, and went to harass John and Yoko when they did their in bed protest.
Les dije hace un año que el Pollo Carvajal cooperaba con la fiscalía y hoy hemos visto los resultados. Por eso aún no ha sido sentenciado un año después… va a ser testigo clave contra Maduro.
Un centenar de personas protestan contra el PSOE y sus socios ultraderechistas del PNV por el desahucio en Bilbao de Esther de 82 años.
La mujer tuvo que ser atendida por un cuadro de ansiedad.
El claustro del Monasterio cisterciense femenino (y aún hoy activo) de San Andrés de Arroyo, con esa columna angular y su consabido capitel convertido en uno de los iconos del románico palentino
After working as a butcher’s apprenticeship for seven years, Robert Pickton inherited his family’s piggery in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia in Canada. He subsequently began killing female sex workers.
In 1997, a female sex worker narrowly escaped from Pickton’s farm.
Pickton was initially arrested for the but was let go after it was determined that the woman had battled with drugs and, therefore, her accounts could not be trusted. At the time of the arrest, his clothes were seized for DNA testing, but this was not done until 2004.
When attention was drawn again to his home in 2002, investigators made a gruesome discovery: a freezer stocked with human remains, several human bones in the pigsties suggesting he had fed his victims to his pigs.
Although he was charged with 26 murders, Pickton was only convicted on six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
The creepiest photos ever taken: https://t.co/0WklG7bVfh
Dos huevos fritos y unas lonchas de jamón son cinco minutos de sartén y dos de fregar. Los otros cuarenta y uno supongo que se irán en hacer la foto y subirla a redes con un texto así.
This iconic photograph was taken by American photographer Tod Papageorge during his project on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in 1983-84 (part of his series On The Acropolis)....
Summer tourists casually lounging, sitting, and interacting directly on the ancient stone blocks and ruins of the hilltop before modern crowd-control barriers and restrictions were put in place.
The blocks they are sitting on have been lying around the hilltop for centuries, a few steps from the Parthenon. Behind them, scaffolding climbs up one end of the temple. That scaffolding was part of a huge rescue effort. The Parthenon was finished in 432 BC, and by the 1980s it was in serious trouble. Part of the damage came from the 20th century itself.
In the early 1900s, a Greek engineer named Nikolaos Balanos had restored the temple. He fixed the stones together with iron clamps set in concrete, believing the concrete would keep out the water. It did not. The iron rusted and swelled, and it split the ancient marble from the inside.
On top of that came the smog from Athens traffic, which was eating away at the stone. So in the 1980s experts began taking parts of the temple apart, block by block. They removed the iron and replaced it with titanium, which does not rust. They also moved stones that had been put back in the wrong places. The work is still going on today.
Visitors are now asked to stay off the ruins and keep their hands off the marble. Since 2023, the Acropolis has been limited to 20,000 visitors a day. Before the cap, it was getting as many as 23,000.
#archaeohistories
El muerto que gimió
Hacia 1727 los vecinos de Medveđa, en la Serbia de los Habsburgo, desenterraron al haiduco Arnold Paole, un miliciano de la frontera al que culpaban de varias muertes, y aunque habían pasado cuarenta días desde su muerte lo hallaron entero y sangrando por la nariz y por los oídos. Al clavarle una estaca, según contaron después a la comisión del cirujano militar Johann Flückinger, el cadáver soltó un gemido bien audible y echó mucha sangre, y el informe que Flückinger firmó en 1732, impreso en Núremberg como 'Visum et repertum', hizo correr la palabra vampiro por los periódicos de Europa.
Pues bien, el gemido tiene una posible explicación. El folclorista Paul Barber cotejó en 1988 estas actas con la patología forense y mostró que el cuerpo en descomposición se hincha con los gases de las vísceras, de modo que la estaca obliga al aire a salir por la glotis, todavía intacta, y produce lo que él llamó «a very life-like groan» (un gemido como de persona viva). #tiempodeánimas🎃