Beautiful Things

It was here maybe 90 minutes ago.

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Sapphire ring believed to belong to Emperor Caligula

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What an extraordinary thing! :heart_eyes:

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Up above the streets and houses…

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Incredible isn’t it :heart_eyes:

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What a treasure

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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I was waiting for @Mrs_Maureen_OPinion to tell us how pleased he was :grin:.

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As long as they’re romping around outside, they can crack-on TBH. Just don’t want them on me…

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Ocean liners moored outside of Weymouth, with Portland Bill in the background.
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I also saw a rainbow today.
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Sliced agate stone windows by Sigmar Polke in the Grossmünster in Zürich, Switzerland. :heart_eyes:

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Honda NR750 (actually, I think that might be an NR500 engine).

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Oval bores, twin con rods and 8 valves per cylinder is new to me!

Lol, this is from the '70s and '80s!

TL;DR version: Honda hate two strokes, but to compete within the 500cc GP bike limit with a four stroke, needed somehow to match the specific output of the two strokes. Meaning revs. Lots of them. Hence short stroke “V8” with four cylinders.

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Just because Honda can.
And those that say it wasn’t powerful , heavy are missing the point.
I’d love to have a go on one.
Bet as a road bike it would be fantastic. If a little expensive when you drop it on a greasy roundabout :grinning:

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Dracula parrot - you learn something new every day.

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Pesquet’s parrot - psittrichas fulgidus

I’ve seen those in the wild. Very strange indeed!

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Beautiful.

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It would certainly give you a start seeing one of them suddenly - amazing looking thing.