The Habsburg Peridot Tiara was crafted in 1825 by the imperial court jeweller, Köchert. It features 5 massive peridot stones nestled within an intricate, scrolling foliate frame made of diamonds, yellow gold, and silver and detachable 7 pear-shaped peridot drops
Germany has more castles than the United States has McDonald’s.
This is the Eltz castle, located in Wiershem.
It has been owned and occupied by the same family for 33 generations over 800 years.
1/3- Görseldeki bilezikte yer alan "Aslan ve Güneş" (Şir-ü Hurşid) motifi, kökleri antik Pers ve Mezopotamya ikonografisine uzanan kadim bir egemenlik sembolüdür. Aslan gücü ve krallığı, arkasından doğan güneş ise aydınlanmayı ve tanrısal nuru temsil eder.
"O Claude Code acabou de encontrar um cartão SIM escondido dentro da estação de energia Ecoflow no meu quarto. Por 10 meses, ele estava enviando para um servidor em Shenzhen nossa localização exata, quando saímos, quando caímos no sono e quando o apartamento estava vazio.
Eu o comprei por US$ 389 no último inverno, durante os apagões. Sem logotipo, 600W na etiqueta, "controle por app" na caixa. Nós o mantínhamos ao lado da cama para que o roteador ficasse ligado à noite. Eu nunca nem instalei o app.
Esta manhã, meu MacBook estava morrendo, então o conectei à estação de energia com um cabo USB-C. Então perguntei ao Claude Code uma única coisa: é só carregando?
Não era. Meu Mac viu a estação de energia como 3 dispositivos. Um era o carregador. Os outros dois eram portas de dados que uma bateria não tem motivo para ter.
Um carregador só precisa de pinos de energia. Este abriu uma porta serial, e quando o Claude Code entrou, a coisa respondeu como um telefone:
→ /modem → módulo LTE, não no manual
→ /sim → seu próprio eSIM, registrado na rede celular
→ /gps → nosso quarto, preciso até 4 metros
→ /schedule → carga cai para 38W às 08:52, ou seja, ninguém em casa
→ /sleep → carga noturna começa às 23:40, todo dia desde janeiro
→ /wifi → 23 redes que ele podia ver, incluindo a nossa
→ /charge → todo telefone e laptop que conectamos, com o horário
Ele sabia o minuto exato em que nosso apartamento ficava vazio. Todo dia.
A cada 15 minutos, ele enviava o lote mais recente por 4G, contornando completamente nosso Wi-Fi:
envia para → 119.***.***.47, Shenzhen
envios → 11.328 desde 14 de janeiro
último → 6 minutos antes de eu conectar meu Mac
Eu disse ao Claude Code que nunca instalei o app. Ele disse que não precisava de um. Tinha seu próprio SIM, seu próprio GPS e sua própria bateria, então funcionava mesmo com a tela desligada. Nosso roteador nunca viu um único byte. É por isso que nada parecia errado.
Durante os apagões, era a única coisa no nosso apartamento ainda online.
O Claude Code desligou o rádio do modem. Então desconectei a estação de energia e a levei para fora do apartamento. Minha esposa não dormiu naquele quarto desde então.
Eu o levei para uma loja de reparos para abri-lo, e o chip que eles retiraram está nos comentários. Uma verificação de 2 minutos para o seu próprio está no segundo. Salve isso e conecte um laptop em tudo o que você comprou sem marca."
Built to conquer the oceans, reborn to nurture them.
The historic hull of the SS City of Adelaide has spent over a century transforming from a tragic shipwreck into a lush, floating mangrove forest off the coast of Australia.
Nature always writes the best final chapter.
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PHILIPPE WOLFERS: THE ART OF LIGHT
Orchid Hair Ornament, 1905–1907
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
At the height of the Art Nouveau movement, Philippe Wolfers transformed nature into an extraordinary expression of jewellery artistry.
This exquisite orchid hair ornament reveals the astonishing possibilities of plique à jour enamelling, a rare and demanding technique in which translucent enamel allows light to pass through the delicate metal framework, much like the luminous colours of a stained glass window.
Every petal captures the fragile beauty of an orchid, while the interplay of light, colour and transparency demonstrates Wolfers’ exceptional technical mastery and artistic sensitivity.
More than an ornament, it is a miniature sculpture of light: a remarkable testament to the golden age of Belgian Art Nouveau and one of the most sophisticated achievements in early 20th century jewellery.
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@Nuestromar oque para um homem mal armado ?
Um homem bom armado!
Eles vão mastigar essas cercas com arroz e feijao porra ! E transmite medo!
Coloquem um boneco com um fuzil de vigia bem realista e guarda armada muito bem armada pra longa distancia ! Somos Pacificos não pacifistas...! AHoy!
Oct 31, 1918. The Austro-Hungarian Navy gives its flagship away to a brand-new country. Hours later, two Italian divers sink her without knowing she'd changed sides.
Viribus Unitis was the pride of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, a modern dreadnought. In 1914, she had carried the bodies of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife home from Sarajevo after the murders that started the war.
By late October 1918, the empire was falling apart. Its peoples were breaking away to form their own nations. On Oct 31, Emperor Karl handed the entire navy to the new State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the forerunner of Yugoslavia.
That evening at Pola, the Austro-Hungarian flag came down. A Croatian officer, Janko Vuković, was made admiral and given command of the fleet. Viribus Unitis was his flagship.
Nobody told the Italians.
That night, two Italian officers, Raffaele Rossetti and Raffaele Paolucci, slipped into Pola harbor riding a strange invention: a torpedo with no warhead, steered by two men in rubber suits clinging to its back. They called it the Mignatta, the leech.
For hours they worked past the harbor defenses in freezing water and sleet. Just before dawn, they reached Viribus Unitis and fixed an explosive charge to her hull, timed to go off at 6:30.
Then they were spotted, pulled from the water, and brought aboard the very ship they had just mined.
They told the new admiral what they had done. Vuković had them sent safely to another ship and ordered his crew to abandon the flagship.
The charge exploded. Viribus Unitis rolled over and sank. Vuković stayed aboard and went down with her, after just a few hours in command. Estimates of the dead range from dozens to several hundred.
The two Italians had sunk a ship belonging to a country that hadn't existed the day before. Four days later, the war in Italy was over.
Their leech was the ancestor of the human torpedoes the Italian Navy would use with deadly effect in World War II.