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“I can be feminine in all my rage. I can be girl and woman, and claws with teeth. Watch me burn.”
— Venetta Octavia, from “Sekhmet, Not Pin-Up Girl,” Prelude to Light (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
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Today I found out that the name Alexandra is found in Linear B, and it’s kind of blowing my mind because that means that name has been in use for at least 4500 years
The name actually appears earliest in its feminine form, Alexandra, as a-re-ka-sa-da-ra before we ever see the masculine variant Alexander!
It’s also thought that it may have meant “defender FROM men” in addition to “defender of men”. This comes to be used as an alternate name for Kassandra, who may have been worshipped as a protector of unmarried girls and young women from the unwanted attentions of men!
Gemstone Guide
Gems for Confidence
- citrine
- iolite
- serpentine
- tiger eye
- tourmaline
- sodalite
- agate
- carnelian
- rhodochrosite
- aventurine
- aragonite
- topaz
Gems for Healing
- emerald
- jasper
- quartz
- sunstone
- aquamarine
- lapis lazuli
- abalone
- bloodstone
- selenite
- malachite
- rainbow obsidian
Gems for Tranquility
- sapphire
- opal
- rubellite
- blue lace agate
- chrysocolla
- azurite
- hematite
- apatite
- larimar
- jadeite
Gems for Love
- rose quartz
- moonstone
- garnet
- morganite
- ruby
- pearl
- rhodonite
- charoite
- lepidolite
- scolecite
- mangano calcite
- diopside
Gems for Luck
- lepidolite
- black tourmaline
- tektite
- pink opal
- kunzite
- tree agate
- citrine
- amethyst
- aventurine
Gems for Protection
- amber
- amethyst
- malachite
- obsidian
- black tourmaline
- smoky quartz
- howlite
- labradorite
- zircon
- agate
Opportunity Takes Images Over the Holiday Period
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 09, 2018
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Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of “Perseverance Valley” on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned upstream of a fork in the flow channels. Over the holiday period Opportunity stayed in place collecting extensive Panoramic Camera (Pancam) color stereo imagery of the surroundings. Over 70 frames of Pancam imagery were collected.
With the robotic armFull article
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn’t be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat’s ‘purple-stained mouth’, or perhaps even of Homer’s dangerously wine-dark sea.
Victoria Finlay (via pomegranateandivy)
While the Israeli government authorizes, and often heavily subsidizes, the construction of settler houses in the occupied West Bank, there are still thousands of homes built by settlers on other people’s land that are, even by Israeli reckoning, totally unauthorized and illegal.
But there are soon to be less of those, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that thousands of these unauthorized homes are about to be retroactively legalized, including some built decades ago. The Justice Ministry estimated this around 2,000 homes.
It is unclear what the Israeli government intends to do for the property owners who have found themselves with a suddenly authorized home belonging to someone else built on it. In general, the government has preferred to just dispossess the landowner, especially to the extent that they are Palestinians, and rule that the fact that someone else illegally built a house there is proof the land was “abandoned.” This is a particularly favored tactic when the land in question is on the wrong side of some Israeli wall, which physically prevents the owner accessing their own land.
SLAUGTER ULTRA APARTHEID STATE of Israel/Jacob
“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn math and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”
— Seymour Papert
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