Jiri Lukavsky

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Beautiful hand-drawn map of UK in Lord of the Rings / Tolkien style

by Reddit user: u/NACHODYNAMYTE
https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1oseuzg/a_map_of_great_britain_handdrawn_by_myself_using/

Dnes slaví 90. narozeniny Jiří Grygar, astronom, astrofyzik a popularizátor vědy v oblasti astronomie a astrofyziky.

Člověk, který mě provází od dětství do dnešních dnů a díky němu občas rád zvednu hlavu k nebi.

Okna vesmíru dokořán jsou stále díky němu otevřená v Meteoru. Všechno nejlepší a díky!

#grygar #astronomy

And the cheapest beer in Europe is found in...

Love these stories, so human. Didn't throw it away, used it. And that's why we have it now. 🫡

> Tomanec discovered a unique rectangular stone in the garden of his home in [Czechia]. The object, which had long helped support the foundations of his barn, piqued [his] interest. Eventually, it drew attention from local archaeologists

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-czech-man-used-this-stone-in-his-barns-foundations-it-turned-out-to-be-rare-bronze-age-spearhead-mold-180988339/

A Czech Man Used This Stone in His Barn's Foundations. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold

The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture

Smithsonian Magazine

The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses

https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/a-human-chess-match-gets-played-in-leningrad.html

The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses

Let's time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That's when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day. Apparently, they called in their moves over the telephone.

Open Culture
You auto-complete me? Here's the same search 2010 vs 2024. Some interesting differences
http://hint.fm/seer/
It’s all a matter of perspective…
@openrightsgroup it never gets old, huh?
Comic by John Jonik, 2005...

Before you ask a diffusion model to barf up a banner image for your article, please consider searching one of the many existing sources of fine & free media:
• Public Domain Image Archive
• Openverse
• Wellcome Collection Image Archive
• Digital Bodleian
• Getty Open Content Program
• Wikimedia Commons

#publicdomain #substack