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The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) looks a bit like the goofy child of a pelican, a flamingo and a spatula.
(Don't ask me how the spatula got involved.)
The pinkish coloration of its feathers is diet-derived, as is the case with flamingos and scarlet ibises 🦐🦀
He was also famous for his work as a caricaturist, culminating into his 'Pantheon', a frieze more than a meter wide (spread over four sheets) representing 250 of the most famous authors and journalists of his time.
Nadar took countless portraits of the most famous people of his time (here: the author Jules Verne, the actress Sarah Bernhardt, the painter Eugène Delacroix, and the authoress George Sand)
I hope you have enjoyed this short thread and wish you a lovely day!
Stay curious! 💛
The city is party organised in a helix shape around a 55 meters deep ventilation shaft, which guaranteed proper air circulation and was probably used as a well
Huge circular stones were placed at key points and could be rolled across a tunnel to protect the dwellers from attacks
Another aspect that became controversial long after his death was that Dodgson took many pictures of children, some of them nude.
Some have argued that the poses in those pictures looked somehow lascivious, however, experts blame the modern observer not the photographer
During my research, I have come across slanderous photomontages which have been reused by influential websites without any fact checking.
Since I am not in favour of calumniating a man whose guilt has not been established or disproved, I will post them here for future reference.
@ElliottBlackwe3 Those quests seem never ending, don't they?
@ElliottBlackwe3 After reading the "children's book" 'The Water Babies', no amount of Victorian creepiness surprises me anymore