Winners of the 2018 Underwater Photography Competition

https://mymodernmet.com/ocean-art-underwater-photography-competition/

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Origins of NASCAR

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nascar-moonshine

The moon shines east,

The moon shines west

But our neighbor next door

Makes the moonshine best

Taught to me by my mother, c 1947. They did, too. In their bathtub, literally.

History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Often Rhymes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion

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https://www.history.com/topics/china/cultural-revolution

In the 1960s, Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong came to feel that the current party leadership in China, as in the Soviet Union, was moving too far in a revisionist direction, with an emphasis on expertise rather than on ideological purity. Mao’s own position in government had weakened after the failure of his “Great Leap Forward” (1958-60) and the economic crisis that followed. Mao gathered a group of radicals, including his wife Jiang Qing and defense minister Lin Biao, to help him attack current party leadership and reassert his authority.

Mao launched the so-called Cultural Revolution (known in full as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) in August 1966, at a meeting of the Plenum of the Central Committee. He shut down the nation’s schools, calling for a massive youth mobilization to take current party leaders to task for their embrace of bourgeois values and lack of revolutionary spirit. In the months that followed, the movement escalated quickly as the students formed paramilitary groups called the Red Guards and attacked and harassed members of China’s elderly and intellectual population. A personality cult quickly sprang up around Mao, similar to that which existed for Josef Stalin, with different factions of the movement claiming the true interpretation of Maoist thought.

Fwd: Portrait of the (French Burglar) Artist As A Young Man

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/the-french-burglar-who-pulled-off-his-generations-biggest-art-heist

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Just When You Thought You Knew Everything About Nudibranchs...

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful,

The Lord God made them all!

35 Insanely Stunning And Unique Sea Slug Images That Will Mesmerize You

Wow! Who else has the urge to go diving and see these exquisite sea critters in person? Did you know that there are more than 3000 known species of sea slugs (Nudibranch)? Each one is so colorful and unusual, it was hard to limit it to just 35 images!