Lisa Bible

[Lisa Bible @LisaMBible]

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[world paradise @worldparadiseX]

📍 Lungern, Switzerland 🇨🇭

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Caño Cristales is a Colombian river commonly called the "River of Five Colors"

The water is crystal clear and you can see colourful aquatic plants on the river bed which are called Macarenia clavigera.

📹 reisingruta

[world paradise @worldparadiseX]

📍 Passo Giau, Italy 🇮🇹

[Know Your Computer 💻 @ComputerrBooks]

Computer Evolution

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

This guy built over 1,000 homes for squirrels and fitted some of them with cameras so he could see how they live

Welcome to the cutest reality TV show out there

Writer: Ian

[Laura 69 🍫 @laura69_69]

All of them can never touch eachother.
It's not physics
It's not biology
It's not chemistry

Hmmm

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

This is how 2 AM looks in iceland

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

After endless engineering calculations, the result is achieved

[Theo Knight @SocietyKnight]

Magicians aren’t magical you’re just easy to fool.

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

A real-life pacman game. Ngl this is pretty cool. 😂

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

Un hombre en Alaska grabó la vista de una aurora boreal desde su cabaña y el video es simplemente espectacular

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

When father giraffe and his brother see the newborn calf for the first time. We are not so different from other animals.

[Learn Something New @HorifyingPeople]

This is how to properly fold clothes 💯

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How to put on socks when you have a hard time reaching your feet

[📹 Mister Odd and Miss Tree]

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

A father said to his son:

“You graduated with honors. Here’s a Volkswagen Beetle I bought many years ago… It’s over 50 years old, but before I give it to you, take it to a downtown dealership and ask them how much they’ll offer you.
”The son went to the dealership, came back and said:
“They offered me $10,000 because it looks very worn out.”

The father replied:
“Now take it to a pawn shop.”
The son went to the pawn shop, returned and said:
“They only offered me $1,000 because they said it’s too old.”

Finally, the father told him to take the car to a classic car club.
The son did so, came back and said:
“People at the club offered me $100,000! They said it’s a very rare and highly sought-after car among the members.”

The father then said to his son:
“I wanted you to understand that the right place will value you the right way.
If they don’t appreciate you, don’t get angry... it simply means you’re not in the right place. Those who truly know your worth are the ones who truly value you.
Never stay somewhere that doesn’t recognize your value!”

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

In April 2024, researchers from the University of Pisa and the Italian National Research Council announced a major breakthrough achieved by applying modern imaging techniques, including infrared optical imaging, x-rays, and AI, to decipher charred carbonized scrolls from the ancient city of Herculaneum. Buried during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the Villa of the Papyri, these scrolls were previously considered too brittle and damaged to read. The newly deciphered section belongs to the History of the Academy penned by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus of Gadara around the 1st century BC, offering fresh, direct historical claims about Plato’s life and death.

The newly recovered passage details Plato’s final hours before his death in Athens around 348 or 347 BC. Suffering from a severe fever, the dying philosopher had an enslaved Thracian woman playing the flute to comfort him. Despite his weakened condition, Plato retained his mental faculties and utilized his last moments of lucidity to criticize the musician in front of a guest, remarking that she lacked a proper sense of rhythm. Furthermore, the text pinpointed his exact burial location inside the Academy of Athens: a private garden adjacent to the Museion, a shrine dedicated to the Muses.

The scroll also challenged previous historical consensus regarding Plato’s enslavement earlier in his life. While traditional accounts placed his enslavement around 387 BC in Sicily under Dionysius I of Syracuse, Philodemus's text reveals he was actually sold into slavery much earlier on the island of Aegina, either in 404 BC following the Spartan conquest or in 399 BC shortly after the execution of his mentor, Socrates. This discovery provides unprecedented insight into both Plato's biography and the surviving classical records preserved by Mount Vesuvius.

A lesser known historical fact about the BC dating system is that it was not created alongside AD. When the monk Dionysius Exiguus calculated the Anno Domini calendar in 525 AD to establish Easter dates, he did not create a corresponding system to count backward for prior historical events. It was not until more than two centuries later that the Anglo Saxon historian Venerable Bede popularized counting years backward before Christ in 731 AD, and the standard global adoption of BC as a practical era label did not become common until the late seventeenth century.

#archaeohistories

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This dolphin and child noticed each other and instantly became friends

[Damn Nature You Scary @AmazingSights]

This tiny bird weaves its nest by interlacing fibers one by one without using any tools, leaving everyone who sees it utterly astonished.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Perfectly timed photo

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A fountain in St. Petersburg shaped like a dandelion

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