Announcing the Finalists of the 12th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest

See the finalists of our 2014 photo contest and vote for the Readers' Choice winner

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedi...180954445/

200 Flat Earth Proofs in under 2 hours! The largest collection of supposed "spinning ball Earth proofs" I can find from NASA is 10, all of which are debunked in the following video. So here is 20x the amount of proofs your government has ever given you that you are NOT living on a spinning ball planet. Please sit your friends and family down to watch this most important documentary and help share this on all your social media accounts so we can wake humanity up to this greatest deception and mother of all conspiracies!
 
https://youtu.be/h5i_iDyUTCg
 
https://youtu.be/h5i_iDyUTCg
 

Stunning Photos of the Night Sky From the International Earth and Sky Photo Contest

From swirling aurora borealis to bioluminescent beaches, these award-winning photographs capture rare views of our world at night

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedi...180951807/

Characters in Painted Stories: 0 Summary and contents

Does analysis of literary plots offer anything to the understanding of visual narrative in painting? A journey through some of the best painted stories in quest of the answer.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/20/char...-contents/

Heartbreaking Photos of Children Who Are Risking Everything to Reach the United Stat

Michelle Frankfurter tells the stories of these old migrants and also those of the thousands who jump aboard “the death train”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedi...180951715/

Images of the Star-Spangled Banner from Across the Country

See images of the American flag captured by our readers.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedi...180950486/

Art and Science: 5 Colour theory

Colour theory from the ancient Greeks to Munsell, via several artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Phillip Otto Runge.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/19/art-...ur-theory/

Carrier pigeon carrying cocaine and marijuana in a bag attached to its chest is caught in bizarre plot to smuggle drugs into a Costa Rican prison
 
Bird was carrying a black pouch which camouflaged against its feathers
It was flying into La Reforma prison with 14g of cocaine, 14g of cannabis
Guards have previously captured iguanas, cats trying to smuggle drugs
Pigeon was taken to animal rescue centre where it was treated for injuries 
 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...rison.html
 

 
In June 2013, a criminal cat was detained by police after it was caught attempting to smuggle mobile phones and chargers into a Russian prison.
 

 
http://www.oddee.com/item_98783.aspx
 
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Photos: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Iconic images of Dr. King from the Smithsonian collection

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedi...180949401/

Don Quixote 42: The governor and the wooed

When Sancho Panza is awarded the governorship of a local town and leaves the castle to assume office, the knight is left forlorn, and amenable to a old maidservant.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/18/don-...the-wooed/