🧙‍♂️ Happy Birthday J.R.R. 🍺 Born today back in 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Middle-earth has been such a wonderful place to explore through your words and works, as well as adaptions after we lost you.
🎨 credit: Bruno Formagio

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RG Broadwood, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 27 August 1903

Lieutenant General Robert George Broadwood was Commander of British Troops in South China and also served in the Boer War where played a large role in the Battle of Driefontein.

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Spring heat wave in South Africa:
Yesterday temperatures rose to 41.6C at Twee Rivieren (on the border with Botswana,879m asl) and to 40.5C at Van Zylsrus at 938m.
Today Pretoria (1439m) 35.9C,Bloemfontein AP (1354m) 34.9C and Johannesburg (1624m) 33.2C.(provisional values).

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Ontwerp voor een decoratieve schildering met een fontein https://t.co/3F8781Hdhz

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From the depths of the earth and from the bottom of every sea comes the healing water of mystery fontein. The new courage member of the Mystery LOVE Guardians. OC is one of my favourites, now that the opportunity to finally get him back is great. 🐺💙🐾

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Born in 1804: Dutch painter (1804-62)

Portrait of Dieuwke Fontein (1800-79), 1844

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The Elandsfontein farm near Saldanha Bay, South Africa, has an extensive fossil deposit eroded from ancient sand dunes. The calvaria from this deposit is of unknown age, and is similar to some "archaic" human fossils.

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Captain Kindra Fonteine at your service m8!!

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When Robert Broom began to find fossils at Sterkfontein in 1936, the record quickly grew to encompass several individuals. The growing evidence at last brushed back anatomists who had maintained the Taung fossil must be a recent ape.

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As the smallest mandible in the highly variable Sterkfontein Member 4 sample, Stw 404 has been a key fossil in understanding whether all these fossils represent Australopithecus africanus, or some of them may represent a second, larger species.

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Stw 183 is the left side of a young australopith face from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Although it has been likened to the type fossil of Paranthropus robustus (TM1517, green), virtually overlapping the fossils shows it lacks a classic "robust" face

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Fossil remains are often distorted when we find them, by natural weathering, moisture, or the weight of sediments that build above them. Sterkfontein, South Africa, has a complex array of depositional environments that left their mark on the fossils.

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Stw 53 is a partial cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Is it early Homo? Australopithecus? Time is ripe for a new reconstruction.

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【MALE ARTを探して】その9
Andre Serfontein
「私の意図は、理想を捉えたり、美の頂点を提示することではありません。私は被写体の本質を捉え、増幅し、強調するために、特定の身体的特徴を歪めたり、誇張したりします。」
(作家サイトより)https://t.co/h6QKDEpFv9

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Middle Pleistocene hominins. Elandsfontein skull from South Africa (~400 ka), Kabwe 1 skull from Zambia (~250 ka); Elandsfontein mandibular fragment superimposed to the Mauer mandible (~600 ka).
Source: https://t.co/UbZTKE8eYn Photo: Roberto Sáez.

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Stw 232 is part of the brow and forehead of a hominin from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Though just a scrap, it seems to show asymmetric frontal lobes in the brain 3ish million years ago (front and top views):

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Face of Stw 53 (blue), an early hominin from Sterkfontein, compared with Australopithecus africanus

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Tijdens de Exposition des Arts Décoratifs van 1925 presenteerde René Lalique zijn 14 meter hoge fontein Source de la France bestaande uit 128 glazen mythologische beelden waaronder Kalliope, een van de 9 dochters van Zeus.

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Gay Erotic Art

artist - Andre Serfontein

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