scipsy:

Ouarkziz Impact Crater in Algeria. This crater (3.5 km wide) was formed by a meteor impact less than 70 million of years ago. 

“Balzac and Gautier both reported a spate of head-shaving [c. 1840?]: one or two inches off the forehead expanded the brow to Hugolian dimension, though some claimed that Hugo achieved the effect by bending his head forward when sitting for portraits.”

Graham Robb, Victor Hugo

Dat Forehead was something worthy of imitation!

(via hernaniste)

drusy:

Tourmaline var. Liddicoatite from Madagascar

(Source: mineralia)

centuriespast:

The Star falling into the Pit of Hell and the Plague of Locusts; above an angel blowing a trumpet. On verso part of another illustration to the Apocalypse. Illustrations to an unidentified New Testament edition. c.1523

Print made by Georg Lemberger

The British Museum

fancybidet:

A bath tub cut out of a large single piece of Quartz Crystal.

I deserve this and nothing less.

woah

(Source: quincynessigsays)