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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 06:06 AM EDT |
Cutting off the nose to spite the face
The most famous[citation
needed] of these cases was that of Æbbe the Younger, the Mother Superior of the
monastery of Coldingham. In 867 AD, Viking pirates from Zealand and Uppsala
landed in Scotland. When news of the raid reached Saint Ebba, she gathered her
nuns together and urged them to disfigure themselves, so that they might be
unappealing to the Vikings. In this way, they hoped to protect their chastity.
She demonstrated this by cutting off her nose and upper lip, and the nuns
proceeded to do the same. The Viking raiders were so disgusted that they burned
the entire building to the ground.[3] ---
RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: nsomos on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 12:25 PM EDT |
There is no plugin required, but you do need to enable
javascript to enjoy. The big bottom panel has a hint
of "click and drag" when mouse hovers over it.
There are a number of 2048x2048 pixel pngs which you
navigate through by clicking and dragging. The javascript
knits them all together so that only the ones that are
proximate to your current location need to be loaded,
and they are placed end-to-end so you do not even realize
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