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The Bride! can't possibly be that bad because we now have Fever Ray on the screen on multiplexes across the country.

Of Iran’s 2,000 mines, about half were purchased from Russia when Iran acquired its 3 Kilo submarines.39 It is hard to do more than guess at Iran’s specific stocks of different kinds of mines and which type(s) it would use in the strait. The strait is relatively shallow, and the currents are strong, meaning that drifting mines could be flushed easily from the shipping lanes and/or come to pose a danger to Iran’s own forces. Indeed, Iranian mines found in the western gulf during the 1980s apparently began their lives as moored mines farther east but broke free of their chains in the rough waters. It is a reasonable assumption that Iran would have sought to acquire moored or bottom mines to use in the strait if at all possible. In the past Iran has used the North Korean-manufactured M-08 moored contact mine, which is based on a 1908 design. The U.S. Navy caught the IRGCN red-handed laying such mines north of Qatar in 1987. One blew a hole in the Kuwaiti supertanker the Bridgeton in 1987, another in the hull of the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts frigate in 1988. (Neither sank, though they required extensive repairs.) The M-08 has a 115-kilogram charge, is meant for use against surface ships, and can operate in depths of 6 to 110 meters, making it feasible for use in the strait.

TIL Iran has deployed sea mines that were designed in 1908

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Coin used to pay for bus in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old Coin has been donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries

"Coin used to pay for bus ticket in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old

The coin was given to a local bus driver decades ago and kept in a chest ever since"
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

"Is there a Mr Carter in the room?"

On this day in 1971 the film 'Get Carter' (featuring the best train song instrumental of all time in the form of 'Main Theme - Carter Takes A Train' by Roy Budd) went on general release in the UK.

I’ve got a thing for curvy paths
#photography #urbanphotography #leadinglines #fog #walkway #stavanger #norway

And then of course the Lowdown mentions Jim Thompson’s work frequently….

Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards Paul Hobson’s black-and-white image of a leaping, silhouetted toad takes top honors this year in the British Wildlife Photography Awards.

Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/brit...

Canadian wildfire smoke changed the songs of New York birds, study finds The massive wildfires that blanketed New York in smoke in the summer of 2023 affected how often some birds in the state sang and chirped.

www.timesunion.com/environment/...

French poster for MILDRED PIERCE (1945)

So good!

It’s glorious!

Only the French offer well made Jim Thompson adaptations.
Série noire is among the very best.

A poster for the film showing the glowering face of a ratty little bloke with a moustache.

Now watching: ‘Série noire’, dir. Alain Corneau, 1979. Based on a novel by Jim Thompson. 🎬🎥

Andrzej Wajda (with scenes from his short film "Roly Poly", which was a loose adaptation of Stanisław Lem's 1955 short story turned into a radio play "Are you there, Mr. Jones?") - BOTD

The Devil's Hand (1943) d. Maurice Tourneur
'La main du diable'
Another fine release from Eureka! Made in occupied France during WWII by a German company this is remarkably not mere propaganda. Fascinating contributions to the extras give context and background.
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Masahiro Shinoda (with scenes from his film "Demon Pond") - BOTD

The Calypso Orchids blooming on Mount Tam is a sure sign of spring #calypsoorchid #wildflowers #mttam #mttamwatershed #naturephotograpy

#StreetArt by #Jana & #JS
in #Reims , #France
📸 Via street-artist

Ciao America (1988-1989) Georg Baselitz Kode Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway

Ciao America (1988-1989)
Georg Baselitz
Kode Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway

Photo of The Slits performing on stage.

The Slits

US mag Freak Out, volume 1 number 1, Fall 1967.

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

Crow looking for parking lot fries

Good morning. 😎 🐦‍⬛

Sun Came Finally
Alex Janvier ~ Denesuline
1979

'Thistle Grove, South Kensington', from 'My Recollections and Reflections' (1913) by Yoshio Markino

I'll take any excuse to repost Chris Killip. This is what the area looked like a year later.

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cancel this war

Tuesday morning, and the fire engines are still working on the devastation that began late Sunday afternoon.

We shall rebuild. There’s always hope.