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Illustrations by Japanese artist Otama-shimai, who creates whimsical hamster scenes inspired by traditional Nihonga
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A 16th-century steam-powered rotating meat spit designed by the Ottoman polymath and scientist Taqi al-Din in 1551...
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf described the device in his 1551 treatise on mechanical devices.
A reconstruction or model of this device (exhibit 75) can be seen at the Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam.
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A small boiler heated water to create steam, which was funneled through a nozzle and directed onto the vanes or blades of a wheel, causing it to spin. This rotation was connected via a mechanical gear system to automatically turn a meat spit over a fire.
While it operated as an early steam turbine rather than an industrial piston engine, it demonstrated a practical application of thermal energy converted into mechanical motion over two centuries before the European Industrial Revolution.
#archaeohistories
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Dude Is the Nintendo switch 2 becoming the console to own? Like there's just so many good games on it, good games coming, Nintendo keeping physical, etc.
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Be Sqaure Enix:
> Drop PlayStation exclusivity
> It fixes the entire company
Lmao
Square Enix Latest Financial Results!
- Net Sales: +21.9%
- Operating income: +42.2%
- HD Games net sales and profits up due to solid performance from games such as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for Switch 2 and Xbox and The Adventures of Elliot. As well as growth in sales of catalog titles.
- MMO sub-segment sales and profits up YoY due to announcement of the new FF14 expansion
- Games for Smart Devices/PC Browser sub segment sales and profits up due to Dissida Duellum FF and Dragon Quest Smash/Grow
- Publication Net Sales: +9.9%
- Amusement Net Sales: +13.2%
- Merchandising Net Sales: -9.6%
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[Switch 2]
Nintendo is now requiring the latest system update to be installed before SmileBASIC and Civilization VII (games used by the jailbreak) can be launched.
If your Switch 2 is not updated but connected to the internet, you will no longer have access to these games.
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One of the best features of the Switch 2 imo is the ability to play a game that’s on cart immediately after inserting the game without an install. Such an under talked about design when other platforms require the games be installed before playing.
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In Bronze Age China, one Shu king taught his people how to cultivate silkworms, while another had the ability to communicate with fish. That’s what ancient sources wrote, anyway, and the Kingdom of Shu remained the stuff of legend until a century ago ...
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ALT Shu bronzes (📸 Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
ALT Shu bronzes (📸 Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
ALT Shu bronzes (📸 Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
ALT Shu bronzes (📸 Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)
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Special moments with the little ones in your life. ✨ The My Mario collection is now available online at Nintendo Store—including new products featuring Yoshi!
Discover books to read (and re-read), outfits that inspire family photos, and toys that spark worlds of imaginative play: ninten.do/6012ahPX8
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Archaeologists in Dublin began finding unusual things about the Viking burials they discovered in the city. One individual was an elderly woman, not exactly a marauder. Another died between A.D. 680 to 775—before the Vikings were thought to be in Ireland.
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ALT Viking archaeology in Ireland (📸 Courtesy Linzi Simpson; Courtesy National Museum of Ireland)
ALT Viking archaeology in Ireland (📸 Courtesy Linzi Simpson; Courtesy National Museum of Ireland)
ALT Viking archaeology in Ireland (📸 Courtesy Linzi Simpson; Courtesy National Museum of Ireland)
ALT Viking archaeology in Ireland (📸 Courtesy Linzi Simpson; Courtesy National Museum of Ireland)
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Reminder: Do NOT attack the cuccos...or else.
Encounter familiar creatures in The Legend of #Zelda: #OcarinaOfTime, available now for Nintendo Switch 2.
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Ancestral Pueblo artists used azurite to make brilliant blue pigments 1,400 years ago, but where did people mine it? Archaeologists analyzed azurite at sites in the Four Corners region and determined that the source of the stuff was quite far away …
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ALT Azurite (📸 University of New Mexico)
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Everytime I noticed these people speak they're always using those lingo like "slop" "seethe" "toddlers" like are they 12???
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The Alice Through the Looking Glass bronze sculpture created by Jeanne Argent in 1990.
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Let’s be real if Nintendo ported all their games to PC day one pirates would move the goalposts to it being about the price being too high.
These twats just want it for free because they have an entitled personality.
