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1 day ago · Ptolemy thought that the planets moved on circles called epicycles and that their centers rode on deferents. The deferents were eccentric, and the angular motion of a planet was uniform around the equant which was a point opposite the deferent center. Simply, Ptolemy's models were a mathematical system for predicting the positions of the planets.
1 day ago · Stereotype. An 18th-century Dutch engraving of the peoples of the world. A stereotypical caricature of a villain (i.e. generic melodramatic villain stock character, with handlebar moustache and black top-hat ), particularly popular in early-20th-century silent films and melodramas and popularized by Snidely Whiplash.
1 day ago · The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.
6 hours ago · Marcus Füreder has been one of the most internationally successful Austrian artists and producers for years under his pseudonym Parov Stelar. From the studio to the recording studio to the dance floor in the form of art andbeats, Parov Stelar unites these spheres into a great whole. In the current exhibition, the focus is on Parov Stelar's works on paper. On display are paintings, overpainted ...
6 hours ago · Loving the Highland Bears; Paradise Reborn; Brides of the Ovedani; Shifters of Wolf Lake
