Magali Mebsoutさんのイラストまとめ

… This inspired HG Wells to write "The War of the Worlds”.

https://t.co/X4281JMbiH

#inktober52world

‘In 1878 Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed geological features on Mars which he called canali (channels). This was mistranslated as "canals" which, being artificial watercourses, fuelled the belief in intelligent extraterrestrial life on the planet.’
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« One author has suggested that the Iguanodon thumb spike was attached to a venom gland, but this has not been accepted, as the spike was not hollow, nor were there any grooves on the spike for conducting venom.”

— https://t.co/ULFgd9vNEz

“The Iguanodon thumb spike is typically interpreted as a close-quarter stiletto-like weapon against predators, although it could also have been used to break into seeds and fruits, or against other Iguanodon”

— https://t.co/ULFgd9vNEz

#iguanodon #themoreyouknow

#timelapse #Procreate

“According to the make-up artist Stuart Freeborn, Yoda's face is based on his own and Albert Einstein's (particularly the eye wrinkles of the latter).”

— https://t.co/GccboxiDIi

#inktober52scifi #yoda #starwars #themoreyouknowthemoreyougrow #funfacts #starwarsfunfact #inktober

“ A group of ferrets is known as a "business", or historically as a "busyness". Other purported collective nouns, including "besyness", "fesynes", "fesnyng", and "feamyng", appear in some dictionaries, but are almost certainly ghost words.”

https://t.co/D18AI6wF2r

#ferret

#timelapse #Procreate

In French a kite is called a «cerf-volant » (flying deer). This word (1669) would come from "serp-volante", "serpe" being a feminine word in old French to designate a snake.
It was then transcribed phonetically, but erroneously, in "cerf-volant"
— https://t.co/vx9VXkkyA7

#procreate #timelapse