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Kubrick on Power
"World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people that think they're Napoleon -- or God." Dr. No (1962)
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A beautiful shrine in Okayama with a 650-year-old ginkgo tree
Fukuda Shrine bathed in golden light.
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Sir Isaac Newton was a strange cat
Sir Isaac Newton wrote more about theology than about science and math combined. He was deeply religious and spent a considerable amount of time studying the Bible, writing about his interpretations of scripture, and predicting the end of the world, which he speculated would not occur before 2060. Newton was a member of Parliament, but he only spoke once during his entire term... to ask for a window to be closed because he was cold. Among other things, Newton invented the cat door
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Hermann David Salomon Corrodi's last painting, 'Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mount Athos' (1905)
