The Hyacinth Girl

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beaft
beaft

october 17th

today's spooky poem is not technically a poem but actually a bit of shakespeare. it was nearly the witches' song, but i like this one better. and it's from the tempest, if you didn't know. five fathoms is about thirty feet of water, so not actually as deep as you might expect.

FULL FATHOM FIVE

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
                                             Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them,—ding-dong, bell.

—William Shakespeare

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jaubaius

Ancient lock mechanism

theoutcastrogue

Oh that’s great! There are many pictures of this type of lock around, but when it comes to locks, you need a video/gif to illustrate how it works, right?

This is ye olde pin tumbler lock, an Egyptian (c.2000 BCE) improvement of an older Assyrian (c.4000 BCE) design:

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It spread out from Egypt and it was used for thousands of years. The modern ubiquitous Yale lock is also called a pin tumbler, since it’s an elaborate (and tubular) version of the same basic concept.

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Originally posted by viejospellejos

heroineimages

Cool!

bogleech

I’d seen the last gif, but I get it so much better after seeing the simpler larger and older version first.