Unexpectedly interesting long read on how a bird migration 1.6 million years ago forever altered the botany of a mountain in Hispaniola, and a terrific account of the most dedicated botanist the world has ever known, the eccentric Swedish genius Erick Ekman (1883-1931). https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8a095a8a3cd41b017a8be34eaa92afbee654e20cd8692109cf21cd8128bb4eb5.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/de09ae4987f9d6e32fe4564b388371f2fbd2a44ec88e94703a82441d05fe61a8.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/fbc4e4c1159a56403b937e8d46e38255ad96dad7602b7e32de55b03979a1f450.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1f53bf79a56fac9604fcfd3ca46b7589623369c40aafcbfe2b4cc4e27a519b61.file

RT @CharlestonArchi@twitter.com: "Today Charleston is refreshingly free from 'modernistic' architecture and seems like Providence determined to remain true to its own heritage." - H. P. Lovecraft

It begins. Jagland was a close associate of Epstein. Formerly Prime Minister of Norway, Chairman of the Nobel Committee and Secretary General of the Council of Europe. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/39d8e06890dbda9737862c10e9a036e2b3f573f0b2db91d1710b29ca54442cd3.file

One of the oldest examples of architectural terracotta in situ are telamon, male figures, that adorn the niches were visitors to the Forum Baths in Pompeii would store their belongings. Look at that detailing and consider that they spent 2,000 years buried in volcanic debris. They probably came out of the kiln in 80 B.C. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/564365df2c9fafb9778c71e562d743fd1377b1e705a17c96fd6e688a07a77beb.file

RT @shinobu_books@twitter.com: Visited NYC a few times after moving to Japan and found the subway train station bathroom game intolerable. Here's a random bathroom in Shinagawa station, Tokyo. All it takes is flipping the switch to have this https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bffbe9e8495380d23872a54e85f95577812082e86a4dc4b9d3868824fdd12f10.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3debb70b2615dec8906fbfca21c0e0d67c4784a459ce171d1f4318229c251cc5.file

When we think of factory made mass produced architectural terracotta we mainly consider the product developed at the end of the 19th century. One of the oldest buildings using this material is the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester, originally Refuge Assurance Building, built in 1895. It has extensive glazed terracotta indoors and outdoors in addition to using brick (which the same things as terracotta really, just used in a different way), and some granite in the foundation and the main door surrounding. But if you look closely, all the finer detailed stone is fake: it is also mass produced terracotta. Considering the pollution in Manchester it has survived better than real stone. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/759d4fe5a8247afccbdb008d40b95c0da86e694cd0bef472e2bbf5ec528a8ec6.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/17350b88a14d363817ab68cdd7082644541e4e660ee1f1dc60dd016e835d3824.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/41db04b69fc65a654d737e383e8935daff02ed9fc2169c4a352a0f6d0597aa6f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/83247babc0c3d362bf8fd7d3ce6093d95ecc00265ea7816205a1bb4134b6427a.file