June 19, 2013
A view of Halley’s Comet from the Lick Observatory on June 6, 1910
June 18, 2013
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via simply-quotes)
Medieval smiley face
This is a true feel-good doodle, drawn by a medieval reader and found in the lower margin of a 13th-century page. The surprisingly modern-looking smiley face is wearing glasses and seems to float towards the text in a balloon, quite content. This little scene made my day.
Pic: Conches, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 7 (main text 13th century, doodle 14th or 15th century). More medieval doodles in this Tumblr.
![victoriousvocabulary:
TRUCULENT
[adjective]
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.
Etymology: Latin truculentus, equivalent to truc-, stem of trux - savage, pitiless.
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TRUCULENT
[adjective]
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.
Etymology: Latin truculentus, equivalent to truc-, stem of trux - savage, pitiless.
[Sandara]
