Interesting Images

[A. Northman]

I love Stephen Gammell's illustrations in "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" -books. A few of my favorites:













These ones surely develop children's imagination in an appropriate way.

[Cyril Tourneur]

Quote Originally Posted by tanzmusik

Is it only me who thinks bats are awesomely cute?

;)

[Tsalal XIII]

Pictures from the article "Nevada Ghosts: Rare Photos From an A-Bomb Test":



Caption from the May 16, 1955, issue of LIFE. "Scorched, male mannequin in suit of dark fabric indicates a human would be burned but alive."



Caption from the May 16, 1955, issue of LIFE. "Fallen mannequin in house 5,500 feet from bomb is presumed dead."



After a nuclear weapon test, Nevada, 1955.



After a nuclear weapon test, Nevada, 1955.

[Mr Loligo]

"This punishment is one of the most frightful that can possibly be imagined. The culprit, bound hand and foot, is fastened by a long cord, passed round his waist, to the elephant’s hind leg. The latter is urged into a rapid trot in the streets, and every step gives the cord a violent jerk, which makes the body of the condemned wretch bound on the pavement.
The only hope that remains for the unhappy man is to be killed by one of these shocks; if not, after traversing the city, he is released, and, by a refinement of cruelty, a glass of water is given him.
Then his head is placed upon a stone, and the elephant executioner crushes it beneath his enormous foot."

It seems death by elephant was once relatively common in areas where elephants had been domesticated...clearly there is no limit to the depths a man's soul can plunge, essentially getting the probably quite unaware elephant to do the dirty work and therefore keeping their hands clean.

[Steve Dekorte]

Quote Originally Posted by Mr Loligo

... essentially getting the probably quite unaware elephant to do the dirty work and therefore keeping their hands clean.

Death by autonomous drone.

[MagnusTC]

[tanzmusik]

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” -- Camus.

[Mr Loligo]

Snoophulhu.....

[beetlebox]

Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where 2010's massive floods drove millions of spiders and possibly other insects into the trees to spin their webs.

Courtesy of National Geographic

[beetlebox]

Encouraging children to read...