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Word of the Day -- Tucana

Tucana is one of the twelve constellations established by the Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius from the observations of the southern sky by the Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, who had sailed on the first Dutch trading expedition, known as the Eerste Schipvaart, to the East Indies. It first appeared on a 14 in. diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was in the German cartographer Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Both Plancius and Bayer depict it as a toucan. De Houtman included it in his southern star catalogue the same year under the Dutch name Den Indiaenschen Exster, op Indies Lang ghenaemt "the Indian magpie, named Lang in the Indies", by this meaning a particular bird with a long beak—a hornbill, a bird native to the East Indies. A 1603 celestial globe by Willem Blaeu depicts it with a casque. It was interpreted on Chinese charts as Neaou Chuy "beak bird", and in England as "Brasilian Pye", while Johannes Kepler and Giovanni Battista Riccioli termed it Anser Americanus "American Goose", and Caesius as Pica Indica. Tucana and the nearby constellations Phoenix, Grus and Pavo are collectively called the "Southern Birds".

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UFO Files

A Pennsylvania witness near Erie reported watching a triangle-shaped object that glowed orange and moved directly overhead under 500 feet, according to testimony in Case 65789 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness had just finished fishing on Misery Bay at Presque Isle State Park about 8:25 p.m. on May 8, 2015, when the object was first seen shortly after getting into his truck.

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Predator: Dark Ages (a Film)

Frazetta Archive

I'm not sure who is hosting this, but here is a nice collection of the master's many pieces of fine work. Its hard to explain how Frazetta captured my imagination as a young gamer and avid fantasy and comic book reader. I devoured his covers, they seem to snatch the image out of my mind and place it on the canvas.

All very cool!

Archive.

Armor Up

Now this is a character I need to be playing in the next Castles & Crusades game!

HenryLam

History's First Murder?

So as you probably heard archeologists have found the skull of an early human with the right side of his head bashed in. It looks like he took two blows to the head with something, a rock, club, baseball bat or some such (though the baseball bat theory is being questioned).

All very interesting, none of it very surprising (certainly not to the archeologists, who study animal behavior), but what is interesting, is the picture choice chose with the article that is circulating around the internet.

I'm not faulting the picture, its pretty interesting in a  We are the World type of picture, but why in the world show it with a murdering caveman who may have killed up to 40 people and thrown them in a deep hole?

I would have gone with one of these...

A traditional Frazetta piece of primeval will.

Or maybe Larry, Curly and  Mo for a light touch.

Or even the poor bastard who had his head stove in!

The internet is giant swirl of noise and color...keep up the pace science people!

Pixels ~ Movie Trailer

This just looks too cool.

The Worm

If your going to have a giant worm as a monster in your campaign, or in your world setting, like the purple worm, then this is the only way to go! Check out more from Florent Masurel.

Word of the Day -- Pele's Hair

Pele's hair is volcanic glass threads or fibers formed when small particles of molten material are thrown into the air and spun out by the wind into long hair-like strands. The diameter of the strands is less than 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in), and they can be as long as 2 metres (6.6 ft). The material is gold or golden-brown, and is commonly found downwind from active vents. Pele's hair is primarily a scientific term used by volcanologists, and is derived from Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.

Plus it just sounds really freaking cool...