The spectacular ship-shaped crystal chandelier hanging inside the Royal Palace of Madrid. Crafted from gilded bronze and fine crystal, it was acquired by King Ferdinand VII from a French merchant around 1828.
Now that I'm older, I can appreciate what a bizarre and fascinating concept Tale Spin had. Somebody at Disney was like "Let's put the Jungle Book characters in this 30's era pre WW2 world with planes and guns and Baloo is a pilot and instead of Mowgli, KIT CLOUDKICKER" lol
September 7, 1980
One of the craziest endings to an NFL game
Packers kicker Chester Marcol — who later admitted he was high on cocaine — collects his own blocked FG attempt and scampers 25 yards for a TD, lifting Green Bay to a 12-6 opening day OT win over Chicago at Lambeau.
I go back and forth between This Is Stupid and It’s Literally Always Funny When the Troll President Makes Everyone Mad So Screw It Let’s Rename San Francisco Bay Gavin Newsom’s Tub of Hair Gel.
There’s a bit in ALIENS where Carter Burke says something like “who are we to say they (the Xenomorphs) should be exterminated” because HE wants them and it really was a preview of how so much modern rhetoric relies on the absurd deployment of social justice tropes.
No, the Mercator projection is not some kind of colonial conspiracy to make some countries look bigger than others
No you were not "lied to" for 400 years
It's just difficult to accurately represent a globe on a 2D map, and there are different ways to do it
That's all