Animal of the Day!

Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus)

(Photo from Entomology Today)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- India; Nepal; Pakistan

Size (Weight/Length)- 300 kg; 2 m

Diet- Grasses; Bark; Leaves

Cool Facts- The nilgai is the largest antelope in all of Asia and is only hunted by tigers, large leopards, and hyenas. These antelopes are sexually dimorphic with females being smaller and tawny in color while males are beefy and dark in color. Herds are made of  relatively small groups of bachelor males or mothers and calves. The only times males and females interact is during the mating season. During the fall, bucks strut their stuff for groups of females. When a competing male doesn’t back off, the two spar by ramming into each other’s thick neck skin with their horns. After a nine month pregnancy, females usually give birth to twins. Females will stay with their mother’s herd for years while the males will move off to join their own bachelor herd.

Rating- 11/10 (Considered sacred throughout much of India.)

Happy 3rd Birthday to

“Grip Strength Test: Loser Becomes the Winner's Butler for a Day”

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: but the love lies buried to the point of suffocation under fear and self-reproaches. END ID]

— August 14, 1913 / Franz Kafka diaries

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Ten years! The betrothed, we wish well. From the record, someone’s been expelled. Not the swinger of purse — No, in fact, the reverse: It’s Louis who’s now been Danielled.

Laura Bromwell, after breaking an air record by looping the loop 57 times, took out her powder puff and nonchalantly powdered her nose, Curtis Field, Long Island, August 14, 1920.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

this is several nights in a row that Mina has described Lucy as looking, like, hella fine in her sleep, yeah?

La Mode illustrée, no. 33, 14 août 1881, Paris. Toilette de casino, modèle de chez Mme Coussinet, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Jupe en gaze de soie brochée mauve, coulissée par devant, ornée sur son bord inférieur d'un volant de même étoffe plissé à plis creux. Traîne en surah violet, avec revers doublés de gaze de soie mauve. Le bord inférieur de la traîne est orné d'un volant plissé fait en gaze de soie mauve. Corsage à pointe, fait en surah, coupé en carré devant et derrière. Manches courtes bordées de dentelle blanche. Le devant du corsage est garni de crêpe lisse plissé et de dentelles blanches.

Skirt in mauve brocaded silk gauze, drawstring in front, adorned on its lower edge with a flounce of the same pleated fabric with box pleats. Train in purple surah, with lapels lined with mauve silk gauze. The lower edge of the train is adorned with a pleated flounce made of mauve silk gauze. Pointed bodice, made in surah, square cut in front and back. Short sleeves edged with white lace. The front of the bodice is trimmed with pleated smooth crepe and white lace.

August 14: Happy Birthday Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop)!!!!

She was born in 1994, which would make her 29 years old today!

On this day, August 14

In 2013: Dark Horse Comics released Issue #3 of the comic book series "The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys". This issue was entitled "Blind". (🖤)

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: August 14. The opposite has happened. There were three letters. The last letter I could not resist. I love her as far as I am capable of it, but the love lies buried to the point of suffocation under fear and self-reproaches. END ID]

— August 14, 1913 / Franz Kafka diaries