Raeden Zen's Blog, page 44
November 12, 2014
phoneus:
kanekikendeservednothing:
vatican-cameos-sweetie:
pir...
Fun fact: This is Orlando’s legit impression of Johnny; it wasn’t originally scripted.
Was there even a script for this film. Every time I see a post about PotC they are like ‘this wasn’t scripted’
none of it was scripted they just got some sony hd cameras and a boat and said “Act”
they hired a bunch of real pirates the film resulted in 4 confirmed deaths and 3 missing persons
November 11, 2014
archaicwonder:
The Earliest Greek Alphabet, Cyprus, c. 800...
The Earliest Greek Alphabet, Cyprus, c. 800 BC
The tablets are in Greek on copper, consisting of 2 tablets with 20-23 lines in archaic Greek capitals with some North Semitic (Phoenician) letter forms, written by 2 or more scribes. This is the oldest European alphabet, the oldest writing tablets extant, and part of the world’s oldest book in codex form. A third tablet originally bound with the present ones is housed at the University of Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum; a fourth is owned by a private collector. The codex originally consisted of at least 5 tablets.
The tablets were made in Cyprus but were excavated in Fayum, Egypt. The alphabet on the plaques is now called the Fayum alphabet and the earliest Greek manuscript extant. It is an alphabet table that is contemporary with Homer and an amazing preservation of students’ learning of the Greek alphabet at the very inception of its use. Apart from the present manuscript, the oldest Greek inscription of any length is the Dipylon oinochoe from Athens, c. 740 BC.
"I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant."
- William Saroyan, My Heart’s in the Highlands (via wordsnquotes)
humanoidhistory:
November 9, 1967 — Behold the planet Earth...
November 9, 1967 — Behold the planet Earth photographed during the unmanned Apollo 4 mission. It was the first “all-up test” of the three-stage Saturn V rocket, carrying an Apollo command and service module into orbit. Among the many elements that were tested was the automatic command module apogee camera, which snapped images from about one hour before to one hour after apogee. These images were taken when the spacecraft and Saturn third stage was orbiting Earth at an altitude between 8,600 and 9,600 nautical miles.
(NASA)
