Even knowing these are painted clay and plastic doesn’t make them any less scary.
Another hilarious Whitney Avalon video:
Battle of the Trilogy Princesses:
In case you missed it, the equally enjoyable Vol. 1
Battle of the Disney Princesses follows in the Playlist on Youtube
A limestone statuette of a shapely woman some 23,000 years old has been discovered in northern France in what archaeologists Thursday described as an “exceptional” find. Archaeologists stumbled on the Paleolithic-era sculpture during a dig in the summer in Amiens, the first such find in half a century.
“The discovery of this masterpiece is exceptional and internationally significant,” said Nicole Phoyu-Yedid, the head of cultural affairs in the area, on showing the find to the media. “We were expecting to find classical vestiges such as tooled flint or bones,” said archaeologist Clement Paris.
But on their second day of fieldwork, the team found a pile of limestone that included fragments which did not seem natural. “That same night we carefully pieced together the 20-odd fragments and realized it was a female statuette,” he added.
Carbon-14 dating showed the statue to be 23,000 years old. About 12 centimetres (4.7 inches) high, it shows a woman with big breasts and buttocks. The head and arms are less detailed.
“The fact that the sculpture is not totally realistic shows the intent was to produce a symbolic image of a woman linked to fecundity,” Paris said.
Around 100 such figures have been found in Europe, mostly in Russia and central Europe, including around 15 in France, most of them discovered in the southwest.
How Manatees Became Mermaids
My first guess, that it was an evil witch’s curse turns out to be probably not true.
http://news-beta.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/141124-manatee-awareness-month-dugongs-animals-science/?source=abt20141127_news_manatee_all_t1
Is it wrong that I think the poachers should be fed to the dogs?
I think just one or two, posted on Youtube or well advertised in the poacher community, would be a serious deterrent.
An examination of these 70s fashions (more than one, I admit to wearing) makes it clear why many of us ended that decade in black leather, torn, pegged jeans, and non-naturally colored hair.
http://flashbak.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-tacky-20-fashion-trends-of-the-1970s-26213/#comments
The Truthiness Shall Set You Freak
Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness 