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Here are some interesting facts about books:

1. Harvard University Library has four books bound in human skin.

2. Iceland tops the world in per capita book reading.

3. People who read books are less likly to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

4. In Brazilian prisons, reading a book can reduce a prisoner's sentnce by four days.

5. Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.

6. The most stolen book is the Bible.

7. Roosevelt read an average of one book per day.

8. There are over 20,000 books written about chess.

9. Victor Hugo’s "Les Misérables" contains a sentence with 823 words.

10. Words like "hurry" and "addiction" were invented by Shakespeare.

11. If all the books in the New York Public Library were lined up, they would stretch 8 miles.

12. Leo Tolstoy's wife hand-copied the manuscript of "War and Peace" seven times.

13. Noah Webster took 36 years to write his first dictionary.

14. The Mahabharata is the only book or epic in the world with over 1,200 characters.

Winona Ryder. 🖤

Happy October, Witches & Ghouls.

© Nona Limmen

Gemini and Sagittarius.

Giant springtail, Tetrodontophora bielanensis, Onychiuridae

Found primarily in central Europe

Photos 1-3 by sympiotr and 4 (for scale) by antsczech

aberdeen in the fog

ehlihr

Vargoth, The Vigilant by Calder Moore

Nicola Samorì (Italian, b. 1977, Forli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, based Bagnacavallo, Province of Ravenna, Italy) - Cunea (detail), 2018, Sculpture: Black Carrara Marble

Bigsnout lanternfly, Zanna turrita, Fulgoridae

Photographed in Tanzania by chemp

*This is NOT the invasive spotted lanternfly, so please refrain from making comments about killing it. Thank you.

Hans Poelzig: "The Great Theater" (1919)

Fog&Rain by Jay Cross

Small Interior with Burning Candles

— by Laurits Andersen Ring

𝔑𝔬𝔰𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔲 (յգշշ) 𝔇𝔦𝔯. 𝔉. 𝔚. 𝔐𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔲

Louise Bourgeois, What Is the Shape of This Problem?, New York: Galerie Lelong, 1999

Birthday gift for my dear friend who loves vampires♥ ). The whole thing was made in three days, I had too much fun drawing it! I created the cover drawing in the car on the way to the birthday party. So I had no time to scan it :D Well, if you enjoy reading it let me know and I will try to post more (I am making comics for my friend regularly, I am just too ashamed to translate and upload these silly things online x_x ) _____________________________________ Patreon Commissions

Groundbreaker, soft pastel drawing by Atavistic-Apples

it's that time of the year again