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I asked the freeware Canva.com to make me an AI image from Beowulf. But in the style as if Beowulf was instead written by Shakespeare instead of in old Norse. And the dragon and his famous mother were the tragic heroes of the play. Instead of the noble Swedes and Danes. It's seems amazing what free AI can do these days. It only took about 4 minutes. I could never draw like that or make the Dragon mother look so theatrical.

Sherlock Holmes fictional master criminal was based on this real life "Napoleon of Crime", Adam Worth. He was more charismatic than the sour reptilian character Sir Arthur created. But even more daring and ambitious. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374218994#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor ------- Francis Tumblety was arrested twice in his life. Once on suspicion of helping James Wilkes Booth murder Abraham Lincoln, and then later on suspicion of being Jack the Ripper. Like Worth, he was a real charmer and confidence man. https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Quacks-Notorious-Tumblety-Charlatan/dp/0786444339 ------ As my poor Victorian joke about Newgate P…

If you couldn't have a dog or a cat, what kind of a pet would you chose. I really like Snow Leopards, but might be hard to handle. So I'm thinking perhaps a Honey Badger. Amazing creatures, can be mauled by all manner of big cats and walk away unharmed, bitten by snakes etc. And they have the temerity, after a bunch of leopards have attempted a mauling, to chase after them for another round. 😁 What would you chose, Avsim animal lovers. Exotic pets accepted. Don't worry, people, Mr. HB in the video below is fine. Hard as rock. 👍

Guards at the Louvre were unarmed, allowing the robbers to threaten them to not interfere as they helped themselves to the objets d'art embedded with thousands of jewels.

Hello all, hopefully this is appropriate place to post this. I am new, please LMK if this needs moving elsewhere... I’m trying get the Garmin Trainer Perspective+ package on Windows 11 (MSI MAG series motherboard, current NVIDIA GPU) to work. The install and launcher run correctly, and both PFD and MFD windows initialize, but it appears the current Garmin Trainer build no longer installs the “Core” module / supporting DLLs that older versions included. Without those, the Perspective+ modules (CDUSimV2, TrainerHost, etc.) do not complete startup. Garmin support was unable to provide legacy installer versions or documentation. I’m looking for confirmati…

That's what he says anyway. Because it reduces friction and you may drop it. He's about to hold up a book worth a million dollars.

1 Reenactment ----- 2. On the Chessboard. (sale at Studio Anne Carlton). Their painted sets list price is just over $1000. Street price in USA is about $740. This slightly older version is $409 but the set pieces are new. https://studioannecarltongames.com/products/battle-of-hastings-painted-chess-set-old-version

It took awhile for Carlsberg to learn how to put the bottle caps on. https://www.carlsberggroup.com/newsroom/carlsberg-creates-the-world-s-smallest-beer-a-non-alcoholic-symbol-of-responsible-drinking/

New scaffolding will once again spoil the view, starting in November. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=window+of+time+to+see+the+Parthenon+unobstructed&udm=50&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeoJTKjrFjVxydQWqI2NcOhYPURIv2wPgv_w_sE_0Sc6QLvDm7a9ZTpW1I1zYSRrvqiq4OF5bD07JhZyLXCONIUIEVFdJLJXX5DugUlqFyggQfXEm7XK9rPMm38ja__DNgqOoTLRGDyJH28OEqul6d4agm_TG6qKeOaY-hg9E5x5d4YLixQ&ved=2ahUKEwiruPfUmbeQAxWjBDQIHd2KKnAQ0NsOegQIAxAB&aep=10&ntc=1&mtid=pnz4aPmqINSY0PEPhubtCA&mstk=AUtExfAKpYslhPvMm_4ol5QhQ3kdB1-tXZ5mc6ZH2s5n4sE6PywHIzVISf_57fYOx00MLIpirkrjkpn8wiXuxGsw87LgjqReGKkTK37OLcjiNXbSAi07waaYwd1rlN7ld4K-aSlyq…

To me, Spam has always been gross, but we ate it because kids will eat anything. Later, as a family joke and an ode to Monty python, at least one can was always kept in the house. Now finally I get to see how its made, and realize that I could have happily lived the entire rest of my life without knowing. Wife: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Wife: I don't want ANY spam! Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage? Wife: THAT'S got spam in it! Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it? Vikings: Spam spam spam s…

There's going to be a lot of variation here, I can see, given the big difference in age groups. Here's my two... Synchronicity. The Soul Cages A couple of tracks...

Peer reviewed and published in prestigious journals. Two papers. Beatriz Villarroel. Thousands of transients in geostationary orbit... before humans launched satellites. Beatriz accepts the possibility of some unknown natural phenomenon, but she can't think of any explanation except artificial satellites.

Coming January. 3 part series. Lawhead's book trilogy (Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur) were based on the Welsh ballads which gave rise to the King Arthur tales, combined with Plato's description of Atlantis being "beyond the Gates of Hercules (Gibraltar)". Lawhead chose Crete as his Atlantis. Wikipedia: " The Bull-Leaping Fresco is the most completely restored of several stucco panels originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the Minoan palace at Knossos in Crete. It shows the bull leaping scene. " The filming described in video below is all early Lawhead, i.e. the first book (Taliesin). Wikipedia: Taliesin was a renowned Brit…

However, I can already see this technology reaching the point of bringing people and series back to life so realistically that we pretty much cant tell the difference... In fact, why hire real actors at all, eventually.

Many of you will have noticed I run a private weather station with info in my signature. It’s viewed by many people around the world but one of the most memorable was when a 747 pilot checked my weather shortly before pushing back from JFK back on this date in 2018 for his flight to Manchester. I live 3 miles from EGCC. We’d met at the Cosford Flight Sim Show a few weeks earlier. Nice touch from @jon b 👏

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5 days ago One year ago In both cases, the cat runs away first, probably to call in the emergency on the phone.

https://simpleflying.com/air-new-zealand-goes-electric-cx300-maiden-flight/ ALIA CX300 … would love to see 3rd party develops create one for a flight simulator. Not very fast, first steps … so is New Zealand considered to be “Down Under”?

What? This doesn't happen every day at your Darth mall?

So that's how a wooden prop is made!

10 months ago, a hundred or so YT videos, and a big thread here about them. A private aerial contractor has reportedly taken responsibility during testimony at a U.S. army summit. https://us97.iheart.com/content/2025-10-20-mystery-of-strange-ufos-seen-flying-over-new-jersey-has-been-solved/ I think they took a big chance by continuing the flights for a week or so after they were spotted?

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