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fuckyeahvalhalla:

St. Peter’s Basilica  is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City and it has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world. One author wrote: “Only gradually does it dawn upon us – as we watch people draw near to this or that monument, strangely they appear to shrink; they are, of course, dwarfed by the scale of everything in the building. This in its turn overwhelms us.”

Around the inside of the dome is written, in letters 2 metres (6.6 ft) high:

TV ES PETRVS ET SVPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI CAELORVM

(“…you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. … I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven…” Vulgate, Matthew 16:18–19

The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson described St Peter’s as “an ornament of the earth ….the sublime of the beautiful.”

Image by Giovanni Paolo Pannini

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thelegendofaangandkorra:

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bloodydifficult:

“Ready disguises!”

i love how badass they try to be when they pull on their hoods and then…perfect aang moment

It’s like ‘Brother. Let us try our hand at badass disguise costume change’ and Aang is like ‘EEEE WRONG. Badassery is something you’re born with’

#always reblog #if for nothing else then for Aang’s adorkable face #look at him #LOOK AT HIM #HOW DO PEOPLE HATE HIM?! #HE IS JUST THE CUTEST THING IN THE WORLD #HE GIVES NO FUCKS ABOUT THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION HE JUST WANTS TO HAVE FUN #ACTUALLY HE JUST GIVES ZERO FUCKS ABOUT GRAVITY #I mean his levity MIGHT BE A BIT OF A PROBLEM and I really don’t know how they never got caught I REALLY DON’T but you still have to love it #the kid had all of the people he ever loved wiped out and was told that he has to end a 100 year war and he still goes around every day like OKAY IT’S A BRIGHT NEW MORNING I’M READY TO HAVE FUN GUYS WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO TODAY OOOHHHH A FIRE NATION FESTIVAL THAT WILL BE GREAT! I CAN LOOK FOR A TEACHER AND GOOF AROUND AND EAT AWESOME FOOD OH AND WELL LOOK FOR A TEACHER BUT THE IMPORTANT BIT IS THE GOOFING AROUND #Aang is the best#IF YOU DON’T LIKE AANG I PROBABLY DON’T LIKE YOU

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toph-appreciation-blog:

thats what i thought…

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Themba, the baby elephant, lost his mother after she fell down a cliff. The team at the Shamwari Rehabilitation Centre rescued him and for two years they dedicated their lives to getting this very special orphan back to the wild.

Themba soon befriended a very patient sheep named Albert, and together they formed a bond as strong as any human friendship. Albert never left Themba’s side and would follow Themba and his carers on long walks; share in Themba’s favourite snack of acacia pods; and when Themba took a dust bath, so did Albert. If any of the other animals at the Rehabilitation Centre tried to join in their fun and games, super protective Albert would make it quite clear that they were most unwelcome. The unlikely pair also made friends with a baby giraffe, and enemies with a baby hippo.

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Here’s a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night created using thousands of curled up strips of paper. Susan Myers used a process called paper quilling to painstakingly build up her version of the piece.

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asianmovieramblings:

3 IDIOTS (2009)

SYNOPSIS

Raju and Farhan haven’t seen their college friend Rancho in ten years. After receiving a call from a college nemesis, the two friends drive across the country, dropping everything in their current life, to find the friend they last saw on graduation day. Rancho is the brightest student in class, charming most of his classmates but gaining some enemies in return. Everyone expects him to have the brightest future after graduation. However, he loses contact with his friends right after ceremony and never to be seen again. The movie mixes the present and the past, showing Raju and Farhan’s search for Rancho and the reason he disappeared, and intervening memories from the past from the start of their college education leading to graduation.

RECOMMENDED FOR: Everyone; people who haven’t watched any Bollywood movie. This is a good movie to start.

DO I RECOMMEND IT?

YES, YES, YES. This is my first authentic Bollywood movie and I am impressed, mesmerized, hooked, amazed, etc. Truthfully, I am apprehensive of watching Bollywood movies because I’m not a fan of musicals. But 3 Idiots changed my mind because I found out that musicals can actually be fun and entertaining. The movie runs for 3 hours but you won’t even notice it. Peppered with the right amount of humor, musical numbers, and plot twists, 3 Idiots is one of the best movies I’ve watched this year.

What I really like about 3 Idiots is how it easily manages to convey meaningful lessons between laughs and song numbers. Rancho, Raju, and Farhan’s friendship is awfully heartwarming. They’ve been through a lot (of pranks and a web of problems) but they still end up laughing and having fun at the end of it all. It’s a really good movie to watch when you’re feeling pathetic and bitter about life. You can relate to at least one of the characters and that makes the movie special.

The pacing of the movie is slow enough to allow character development but not too much to be dragging. The characters have a way of growing on you since you see where everyone is coming from. You see Raju and his family, and you know that he’s doing his best in school to take his family out of poverty. Farhan doesn’t excel so well in school and you know it’s because he’s good in something else: photography. Rancho is the liveliest character but you know so little about him. The whole movie is pretty much dedicated on figuring out his enigmatic background. Pia, Rancho’s love interest in the movie, is a good addition to the cast. She’s one of the few people who can argue with Rancho and doesn’t (usually) end up as the sore loser.

The movie starts in the present and creatively unravels snippets from the past. It’s an interesting way to solve a mystery because you already know what will happen in the end but the thrill is in figuring out how it came to that. I can’t really think of any fault of the movie besides the overused phrase, “All is well.” It tends to get a little too corny by the end of the movie, you’ll know what I mean. But besides that, there’s a good mixture of comedy and drama but nothing that will devastate you. It’s a light-hearted film about friends and dreams that anyone will surely like.

Machine Class Professor: Why are you back?
Rancho: Sir, I forgot to take something…
Machine Class Professor: What?
Rancho: Instruments that record, analyze, summarize, organize, debate and explain information which are illustrative, non-illustrative, hardbound, paperback,…

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bilius:

POC version of the HP cast - ladies

Freida Pinto as Lavender Brown + Kristin Kreuk as Fleur Delacour + Diahann Carroll as Minerva McGonagall + Indira Varma as Bellatrix Black + Archie Panjabi as Narcissa Malfoy + Maria Valverde as Ginny Weasley + Dilshad Vadsaria as Pansy Parkinson + Ruth Negga as Hermione Granger + Jasika Nicole as Tonks + Sandra Oh as Petunia Dursley

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Adapted Wikipedia Grey Lady III by Jeremy Tan into a more minimalist style with three variations depending on the user’s display screen.

Name: Minimalist Wikipedia
Style: Revamped site scheme for wikipedia
Browsers: Tested so far in Chrome, Opera and Firefox but should work in IE and Safari too

Minimalist Central
Displays well across all resolutions


Install: Userscript // Userstyle

Minimalist Widescreen
Best suited to resolutions wider than 1280px


Install: Userscript // Userstyle

Minimalist Stretch
Best suited to resolutions less than1280px wide


Install: Userscript // Userstyle