Playing cards drawn by Slovenian artist and architect Boris Kobe, a political prisoner at Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau, near Munich. Intended for use in the card game ‘Tarok’, these cards were most likely created after the liberation of the camp on April 22, 1945.
”[…] My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination—it was Mars, the god of war… As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void…”
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
[Earth, seen from Mars, photo taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover]
A very recent impact crater on Mars, formed between July 2010 and May 2012 and captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera in November of 2013.
The crater is approximately 30m in diameter; the explosion threw ejecta up to 15km from the impact site. Areas in which the red Martian dust has been blown away show as blue in the HiRISE image.
A boy rides the back of a djinn, watercolour by Spanish artist and illustrator José Segrelles.
Top: A bronze zodiacal sphere upon an ornate dragon stand.
Bottom: An Azimuthal Horizon, Sextant and Zodiacal Sphere.
At the Ancient Observatory, Peking. Photographs ca. 1860, now available online as part of Wellcome Images.
Project Blue Book Status Report Number 8, Appendix I: Frequency of U.F.O. Sightings in the United States, June to September 1952.
(via @ptak)
A grocery list, illustrated, written for an illiterate servant by Michelangelo, 16th Century.
A translation is on Metafilter.
