in 1113 two French canons nearly sparked a riot in Cornwall when they intimated to the locals that King Arthur was in fact legitimately dead and not returning from the grave anytime soon. according to a contemporary chronicler, “many men rushed into the church with arms”, and “it would certainly have come to the spilling of blood” if the French hadn’t invoked the ancient right of take-backs.
and you thought you went hard for fictional characters.
is no one going to explain what all the lights are
they’re impact craters! callisto is one of the most heavily cratered object in the solar system, and as far as my very basic research has just gone, the light parts are essentially iced over impact craters
so, essentially, we’re looking at something with a very frosty/icy surface. they’re bright because they reflect the sun!
stars remember stars above below before the coldest hunting ground then called !seduced! !ensnared! a symbiote afloat our everhungry home nestled nested now in cedars cast down the benighted i will be their dragon soar and slaughter scratch in blood the memory of stars
Photographer Works with Fireworks and Long-Exposure Photography to Illuminate Trees and Landscape
Brazilian photographer Vitor Schietti’s project Impermanent Sculptures experiments with long-exposure photography and fireworks to illuminate tree branches, trunks, as well as the surrounding environment.
The purpose of the project is to implement the classic technique of painting with light, also called “light painting” to create a sketch of illumination throughout different subjects, which reveals a sense of mystery and movement on camera. By using artificial light sources, such as pyrotechnics and LED lanterns, Schietti navigates between different brushes and light sources to create body and give light a tangible sensibility on photograph, which is missing in the real world.
The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.
Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]
During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]
The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]
Orgrimmar during the incident.
This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.
Lucy: there’s a magical world inside of this closet
Edmund: don’t believe her
Peter: I don’t believe you
Aslan: believe her
Susan: Jesus Christ, a talking lion
Aslan: you are correct in multiple ways
Phoenix Assistance Dogs is a Pennsylvania-based program that trains service dogs at very low cost for disabled handlers. Due to their mission to produce well-trained service dogs at a low cost for their clients, they have run into a huge vet bill.
If Phoenix Assistance Dogs cannot raise $10,000 by Christmas, they will be FORCED TO SHUT DOWN. This means that 15+ people on their wait list will not receive their service dogs, and they cannot continue to provide SDs to disabled persons at a low cost.
So far, as of November 6th, 2015, PAD has only raised around 11% of the total needed.This means they have LESS THAN TWO MONTHS to raise ALMOST $9,000!
Please help us #SavePAD! Post the links above to social media with the hashtag #SavePAD, hold a fundraiser in your town/city, donate if you can, ANYTHING to help this amazing program continue to help disabled people!
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