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jsvilliers, 4 months ago to history

Beneath Cappadocia, Turkey, there are around 200 underground cities, thought to date back to about 800BC.

The largest, Derinkuyu, could accommodate 20,000 people. It provided protection for thousands of years to a wide range of peoples at risk of attack or persecution, and was used as recently as the early 20th century.

A five mile tunnel linked it to another underground city, Kaymakli.

#AmazingWorld #History #Geography #Archaeology

A long, open chamber of the underground city with an arched ceiling. It's thought it was used as a school. Credit: Martijn Munneke from Netherlands, CC by 2.0
Narrow, linear staircase ascends from the underground network towards the surface. A large crevice in the wall houses a boulder carved into a chunky disc that can be rolled across the corridor, closing it off to potential invaders. Credit: Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0

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jsvilliers, 9 months ago to Weather

Can someone knowledgeable help identify:
a. The cloud formation
b. The worrying rip in the spacetime continuum / entrance to the upside-down?

#meteorology #weather #cloud #clouds #sun #landscape

Roughly the same shot, but not zoomed.

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FayeRapoportDesPres, 9 months ago to random

Hey, #WritingCommunity, I have a grammar question that research hasn't answered. Would you say, "each step takes him further away from the house" or "each step takes him farther away from the house"? #grammar

jsvilliers, 10 months ago to animals

Looks pretty cute being playful on the bed.

Flip the image and he suddenly looks really quite disturbed.

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cats #cat #OpticalIllusion

The same photo but upside down, so the cat now appears with his head the right way round. His facial expression now appears anxious, and with nothing supporting his body his whole demeanour becomes unnatural, like he's been caught red-pawed in a nefarious act and has frozen in the hope of not being spotted.

jsvilliers, 10 months ago to architecture

Loving this block of flats in Darmstadt, Germany. Not just for the sloping roof garden, but the whole approach with onion domes and the painted lines and individually designed windows that create a sense of irregularity.

It's called Waldspirale ("forest spiral") and was designed by an Austrian artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who had a strong dislike for straight lines.

#architecture #RoofGarden #garden #building #buildings #design #art #Germany #GermanyFotos #UrbanDesign #geography

View of the building at its tallest point, depicting the earthy tones in distinct, irregular blocks. Every window is unique and a mix of square, rectangular, circular and irregular shapes. Lines painted across the surface of the walls suggest organic, non-mathematic construction, like a colourful termite mound.

jsvilliers, 11 months ago to politics

Rewatching The Thick Of It and Malcolm Tucker just uttered the line "that's just as libelous as the Huw Edwards rumour."

16 years ahead of their time. Almost spat my cider out when I heard that.

#HuwEdwards #politics

jsvilliers, 11 months ago to geopolitics

#WaterfallWednesday

This is Bøsdalafossur waterfall, the outlet from Sørvágsvatn lake in the Faroe Islands.

The lake sits 40m above sea level, surrounded by cliffs that hem it in, and looks for all the world like it's warped spacetime to inhabit this position.

#Waterfall #Waterfalls #Landscape #Geography #Travel #Nature #Sea #Lake

onlinegoddess, 1 year ago to random

iPads, iPads, IPADS…. iPads, iPads, IPAAAAADS!

Please tell me it isn’t just me? 🤣🤣

#coronation #KingCharlesIII #apple #ipad