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Miku from your culture meme— but we go mash it up TRINIDAD STYLE✨✨🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🦅🦅
Have to rep my people!!
making fire with Sage
Have to rep my ppl
Can’t draw hands but that’s not important…
Love the view
Thinking back to my road-trip through all the Florida Keys.
Hello my dears! I, Asmaa, ask you to support my campaign to help me reach my goal. 🙏 I am now in desperate need of your support to help me stay alive and safe. Gaza is a very dangerous place, both in terms of living standards and souls. I need your financial support so that I can get the basic needs of my family. Please help a family survive through your small donations or through your shares to others. And reblog. The campaign is going very slowly. 🙏🍉💔
Miku from your culture meme— but we go mash it up TRINIDAD STYLE✨✨🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🦅🦅
Have to rep my people!!
Miku from your culture meme— but we go mash it up TRINIDAD STYLE✨✨🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🦅🦅
Have to rep my people!!
my uncle kevin in sint maarten
I really wanna shave my head but I know my parents would NOT approve.
I literally washed and got my hair done less than 2 weeks ago and it’s already itchy and the roots are mad fuzzy. 😭
Anyone get any tips? It’ll mean a lot 😭
#black gurl hair problems 😄
Lighthouse Tech
All of these pictures were taken at the Key West Lighthouse, a very well put together museum with a lighthouse that retains its original lens, as well as some remarkable exhibits in the keeper's house and the entrance building.
A link to the museum:
https://www.kwahs.org/key-west-lighthouse-keepers-quarters/
The pictures listed in the order they appear: 1. Key West Lighthouse; 2. The lighthouse's third order Fresnel lens; 3. Key West's colored sector glass pane; 4. A fifth order lens; 5. The twelve foot high, first order lens from Sombrero Key Lighthouse; 6. A fourth order lens; 7. A diagram showing some interesting information on lens sizes, the arrangement of the sections, and how far they could be seen.
Lighthouses are another interest of mine. I adore these things, and the remarkable engineering that went into them. If any building deserves to be described as a work of art, it's a lighthouse.
The Fresnel (pronounced Frey-nel) lenses are the ultimate blend of art, science, and engineering. They refract light over incredible distances from a comparatively small light source, and they are immeasurably beautiful, in my eyes. They are extremely intricate and very well put together, and if it weren't for the unstoppable march of "progress" and the extreme shortsightedness that seems to come with it, they would last a thousand years.
They come in many different shapes and sizes. Each was unique, as each one needed to fit the specific needs of the area. That, and they were all handmade. The different sizes were known as orders. First orders are on the upper end of the size spectrum, while sixth orders are on the lower end.
Some lighthouses received colored sections so that they could be identified from a distance, or to warn of obstructions. Many of these used sector glass panes in front of the lens, while on some, such as the Umpqua River Lighthouse, the lens itself was colored.
Lens rotation was accomplished via a clockwork mechanism. Some lenses rode on wheeled carriages, but these were not suitable for first order lenses. They were simply too heavy, there was too much friction, and the clockwork could not make them turn fast enough. So, the solution was to find a material for the lens to ride on that would be nearly frictionless. The solution they came up with was to fill a huge basin with mercury and place the lens and carriage on top of it. Mercury is very dense, so the lens actually floats on the surface of the mercury. It is so smooth that a person can rotate a three ton lens with their finger.
I might post some more photos from my trip to Key West. Stay tuned
Snake Ninja - 2018
© Denis Garnier
What’s for dinner tonight? Well, breakfast for dinner/Pues, desayuno para la cena.
I’m going to make Mangu! / Voy a hacer Mangu!
Instructions/ Instrucciones. Lets go!/Vamos!
First, peel the plantain/ Primero pelar el plantano
Second, cut it!/Segundo, cortarlo!
Third, put plantains in boiling water/Tercero poner plátanos en agua hirviendo!
Wait 5-10 minutes/ Espera para cinco a diez minutos🤔
Drain plantains/Drenar plátanos
put in a bowl and mash with butter salt garlic and vinegar/ poner en un bol y machacar con mantequilla sal ajo y vinagre
Fry an egg/ friár un huevo
Fry an onion with butter and vinegar/ Friár un cebolla con montequilla y vinagre
Put the egg and onion on top of plantain and done! / Poner el huevo y cebolla encima de plátano y listo!
