G.D. Falksen's Blog, page 1278
August 16, 2012
allcreatures:
Photograph by Robert McLean
Knob-tailed gecko...

Photograph by Robert McLean
Knob-tailed gecko (Nephrurus levis occidentalis) in a defensive posture
(via Gecko Picture — Animal Wallpaper — National Geographic Photo of the Day)
August 15, 2012
my-ear-trumpet:
lesfoudres:
William Quiller Orchardson (by...

William Quiller Orchardson (by hauk sven)
Sir William Quiller Orchardson, R.A. (1832 - 1910) — On the North Foreland, oil on canvas, 1890.
anotherafrica:
Model Alek Wek, serving ‘Military Realness’....
oldbookillustrations:
Greek priest’s house, near Yeniköy, on...

Greek priest’s house, near Yeniköy, on the Bosphorus.
Thomas Allom, from Constantinople, by Robert Walsh, London, 1839.
(Source: archive.org)
August 14, 2012
pimpingweapons:
Two late-18th century flintlocks. Source: The...
newyorker:
The media has treated the shootings in Oak Creek...

The media has treated the shootings in Oak Creek very differently from those that happened just two weeks earlier in Aurora… the massacre in Oak Creek is treated as a tragedy for Sikhs in America rather than a tragedy for all Americans.
Naunihal Singh on the reaction to the shootings in Oak Creek: http://nyr.kr/RO0c2H
Photograph by Jeffrey Phelps/AP Photo.
BTW I have a Facebook page...

BTW I have a Facebook page here
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I try to be as entertaining as I can .
Photo by Anna Fischer