The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
Epic Norse (religion, language + Scandinavian, Finlander, Danish, Sweden and Icelandic tribes groups) Saga, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
- "The Valkyrie"
- "Siegfried"
- "TwiLight of the Gods"
Perseus & Andromeda
Cetus
This constellation known since Mesopotamian mythology as "The Whale" is found in a sky region called "The Sea" because many water constellations (Capricornis, Piscis and Aquarius) are located there.
The term cetacean originates from cetus (latin) and from the greek work ketos, meaning enormous fish.
Perseus & Andromeda by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The Gorgon´s slayer in greek mythology, Perseus avoided Medusa´s pretrifying gaze by killing her while she was asleep
It´s with Medusa´s snake haired head, that Perseus turns Cetus the sea monster to stone, thus releasing maiden Andromeda.
This constellation of the northern sky, was one of 48 discovered in the II century by the greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer Ptolemy and is one of modern 88.
In late Summer The Perseids, annual meteor showers, radiate from Perseus constellation.
Watch time-lapsed Perseid meteor shower by Photographer Jeff Sullivan
Photographed in August at Eastern Sierra Region (California & Nevada, USA)
In 2012 a new meteor shower called September Epsilon Perseids was discovered
Perseus & Andromeda by Painter & Architect Giorgio Vasari
In Greek mythology, when Andromeda´s mother (queen Cassiopeia), boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than the Nereids (female spirits of the Aegean Sea), the angry Poseidon decides to punish the queen by sending to Aethiopia a monster.
To safeguard the kingdom, the Oracle of Apollo forces king Cepheus to offer her daughter to the monster (Cetus). Perseus saves and marries Andromeda.
CoLoRed SanD BEaCHes
IceLand
Hyam’s Beach (New South Wales, Australia)
Pink Sands Beach (Harbour Island, Bahamas)
Pfeiffer Beach (California, USA)
Kaihalulu (Maui, USA)
Papakolea (Hawaii, USA)
Ramla Beach (Gozo Island, Malta)
Why have beach sands different colours?
Little fragmentes of rocks and minerals, eroded and carried down to the beaches by rivers, make up the color of the sand. For example:
- In Hawaii black sand beaches come from eroded basalt, (which is cooled lava from the volcanoes); black sand beaches can also be made of hornblende or biotite mica.
- Also in Hawaii, on the southern tip, its green-sand beach is made of olivine, an
igneous mineralpresent in basalt. - White beaches can be made of quartz and on tropical beaches,
pulverized coral skeletons(composed of the mineral calcium carbonate). - The pink-beige fragments are usually feldspar.
19 year old Francis Prior´s MACRO Photography
He makes the detailed insect photos using a Canon 550D digital SLR camera.
A HorseFly
An Ant
A Shield Bug
Each photograph takes up to 6 hours of work!
A Moth
He uses dead bugs!!
The Zoology student and Amateur Photographer explains: “I basically use equipment...I have put together myself...freeze the insects.. prepare them for the shot...just use a couple of lamps from IKEA...and then take anything from 50 to 300 shots of each....I then layer them and use Photoshop to add a bit of colour."
(Excerpt from The Liverpool Echo, written by Kate Forrester)
The Girl & The HumpBack WhaLe (Megaptera novaeangliae)
The HumpBack Whale, a type of baleen is one of the largest rorqual species measuring up to 16 meters and weighting around 36.000 kilograms!
The WhaLe that Wanted to Sing at the Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Company was founded April, 1880 by Otto Hermann Kahn
It is located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York city (USA) .
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