199 years ago today one of the most influential artists you've never heard of was born: Adolphe Monticelli.
He was an outcast, an Impressionist before Impressionism... and Vincent van Gogh's favourite painter.
As van Gogh once said about him: "I am continuing that man’s work."
Attention jellyfish lovers 🪼
Our landers captured great imagery of #deepsea#jellyfish at approx. 5000m deep in the Pacific Ocean. These globally distributed hydrozoans are species within the Crossota genera, of which there are 5 known species (Rhopalonematidae family).
How maps were made in 1961. From the tellurometer, a machine that measures distances through sound waves, to the stereo plotting machine
[📹 British Pathé]
On this day 197 years ago the world's first ever public railway was opened in northern England.
And a whole new form of architecture was born: the train station.
So, to celebrate, here are some of the world's greatest train stations...
Hey @Ryanair, my parents who are in their 70s and 80s, had accidentally downloaded the return flight boarding card instead of the outgoing ones and you charged them £110 to print them at the airport. £110 for 2 pieces of paper which took 1 minute. Shame on you
[1/2] Plus encore que la semaine dernière, cette journée est historique !
48.2°C
NOUVEAU RECORD EUROPEEN #canicule en juillet à Jerzu & Lotzorai en Sardaigne. Mais également 47°C à Palerme (mesures débutées en 1791 !), 47,8°C à Syracuse - SIAS en Sicile et 48.9°C à Bizerte.
Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica.
Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event.
Hang onto your hats.
HT @EliotJacobson
This dramatic footage shows how orcas use a rare hunting technique to trap and kill a seal in the icy waters surrounding Antarctica
[📹 BBC, Frozen Planet II: https://t.co/Z5LPaaqKtU]