An elaborately decorated Lépine-style watch movement, likely produced in the mid-to-late 1800s.

Long overdue for service & in need of some attention in a number of areas—as evidenced by the regulator being advanced well past the end of the balance cock by its late owner.

The Northern Ontario settlement of Pringle, along the Trans-Canada Highway, is authentically in the realm of blink and you'll miss it.

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Quixotically, the only sign for it is appropriately coloured & an ideal silhouette of its modern counterpart. It's even been bolted to the tree for enough time that the growth of the trunk has pushed it out into a Pringle-like shape.

Nearly all of the world's chalk is produced by tiny, marine phytoplankton called coccolithophores.

While the innate purpose of the chalk they create is unknown, scientists speculate that the structures they build serve as a form of armour, protecting them from predators, viruses, & harmful UV rays.

On a global scale, the chalk they produce has helped regulate the acidity of the oceans for millions of years.

A screenshot of the tyrannosaurus rex scene taking shape during the production of Jurassic Park, using an early version of SOFTIMAGE 3D that was made by the Montreal-based company, Softimage (later acquired by Autodesk).

At the time, the software was still "half-baked" according to fellow Canadian, Steve Williams, who pioneered the success of CG filmmaking at ILM, but its implementation of inverse kinematics was instrumental in bringing the film's dinosaurs to life.

You can find the screenshot—alongside a literal handful of other goodies—in the book, 'Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History' by James Mottram:

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