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Post #424- Some images on the boat from the dive today at Angol Point. 
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On this day in 1984, the Men At Work single “Be Good Johnny” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #78 (February 25)
Released in 1982, the final single from the mega-successful “Business As Usual” LP was written by Colin Hay and Greg Ham.
The quirky, fun track from the quirky, fun Aussie band, flipped the iconic Chuck Berry title “Johnny B. Goode”, but it wasn’t as big a hit as Chuck’s classic, or others off the “Business As Usual” album.
It peaked at #3 in New Zealand, and also on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, #8 in Australia, #18 in Canada, but only got to #78 in the UK…
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Who was Giovanni Boccaccio ? Complete Biography :
1️⃣. Introduction:
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) stands as one of the three foundational figures of early Italian Renaissance literature, alongside Dante and Petrarch. If Dante gave Europe a theological epic and Petrarch gave it the introspective lyric voice, Boccaccio gave it realistic prose narrative and social storytelling.
He is best known for his masterpiece " The Decameron " a work that transformed European prose fiction. However, Boccaccio was not only a storyteller; he was also a scholar, a humanist and one of the earliest interpreters of Dante.
His importance lies in three areas:
♦️Development of vernacular prose
♦️Expansion of narrative realism
♦️Contribution to Renaissance humanism
2️⃣. Historical Background:
1. Birth and Early Life:
Boccaccio was born in 1313, probably in Certaldo or Florence. His father was a merchant connected with the banking house of the Bardi. As a young man, Boccaccio was sent to Naples to learn commerce and later canon law. However, he abandoned both for literature.
Naples was crucial in shaping his imagination. It was a cosmopolitan courtly center under King Robert of Anjou, rich in culture, classical learning and romance traditions. There, Boccaccio encountered:
♦️Courtly love poetry
♦️Classical mythology
♦️French romance literature
This early exposure influenced his later narrative style.
2. The Black Death (1348):
One of the most important historical events shaping Boccaccio’s work was the Black Death, which devastated Florence in 1348. The plague killed a significant portion of the population, including possibly people close to Boccaccio.
The catastrophe deeply influenced his worldview and directly frames The Decameron.
3. Friendship with Petrarch:
In 1350, Boccaccio met Petrarch. This meeting was decisive. Under Petrarch’s influence, Boccaccio turned more seriously toward classical scholarship and Latin studies. He became deeply involved in early humanism.
Unlike Dante, Boccaccio personally knew Petrarch, making him a bridge between early medieval and Renaissance humanist thought.
3️⃣. Major Works:
1. The Decameron (c. 1348–1353):
This is Boccaccio’s masterpiece and one of the foundational works of European prose fiction.
Structure:
♦️100 stories
♦️Told over 10 days
♦️By 10 young people (7 women, 3 men)
♦️Who flee plague-stricken Florence to a countryside villa
♦️Each day, one member becomes “king” or “queen” and assigns a storytelling theme.
Themes:
♦️Love (both noble and erotic)
♦️Fortune
♦️Intelligence and wit
♦️Clerical corruption
♦️Social hypocrisy
♦️Human adaptability
The plague setting functions as a symbolic backdrop: while society collapses, storytelling becomes a means of survival and order.
Literary Significance of The Decameron:
♦️Established prose narrative realism
♦️Portrayed merchants, clergy, women and common people
♦️Balanced moral seriousness with humor
♦️Challenged ecclesiastical corruption
♦️Celebrated human intelligence over blind authority
♦️It marks a shift from medieval allegory to Renaissance human-centered storytelling.
2. Early Romantic Works:
Before The Decameron, Boccaccio wrote romances such as:
♦️Filocolo
♦️Filostrato
♦️Teseida
These works show influence from French romance and classical epic. They are important for understanding his literary development but are less influential than The Decameron.
3. Scholarly and Humanist Works:
Later in life, Boccaccio turned toward Latin scholarship. He wrote:
♦️Genealogia Deorum Gentilium (a mythological encyclopedia)
♦️Lectures on Dante (among the earliest public lectures on Dante)
He helped preserve and interpret classical mythology for Renaissance scholars.
4️⃣. Themes in Boccaccio’s Work:
1. Human Nature:
Unlike Dante’s moral absolutism, Boccaccio presents complex human behavior. His characters are:
♦️Clever
♦️Flawed
♦️Passionate
♦️Practical
He neither condemns nor idealizes humanity; he observes it.
2. Fortune (Fortuna):
Fortune plays a major role in many stories. Life is unpredictable, and survival depends on adaptability.
This reflects Renaissance realism rather than medieval determinism.
3. Critique of Clergy:
Many stories satirize corrupt monks, priests and religious hypocrisy. However, Boccaccio does not attack religion itself; he criticizes institutional corruption.
4. Women and Agency:
Interestingly, women are central storytellers in The Decameron. The majority of narrators are female.
Boccaccio portrays women as intelligent, strategic, and emotionally complex.
5️⃣. Style and Narrative Technique:
Boccaccio’s prose style is:
♦️Clear and rhythmic
♦️Elegant yet direct
♦️Balanced between courtly sophistication and social realism
He develops:
♦️Framed narrative structure
♦️Psychological realism
♦️Dialogue-driven storytelling
His influence later extends to:
♦️Chaucer (especially The Canterbury Tales)
♦️Shakespeare
♦️European novella tradition
6️⃣. Relationship to Dante and Petrarch:
Dante → Theological epic
Petrarch → Psychological lyric
Boccaccio → Social narrative prose
If Dante represents cosmic order and Petrarch inner conflict, Boccaccio represents social life and human adaptability.
Together, they form the foundation of Italian Renaissance literature.
7️⃣. Humanism and Intellectual Contribution:
Boccaccio contributed significantly to Renaissance humanism by:
♦️Studying and preserving classical texts
♦️Promoting classical mythology
♦️Encouraging vernacular literature
♦️Giving public lectures on Dante
He helped shift literary culture from purely theological dominance toward classical revival.
8️⃣. Influence on English Literature:
Boccaccio strongly influenced:
♦️Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
♦️Renaissance prose fiction
♦️Later European narrative traditions
Several of Chaucer’s tales derive from Boccaccio’s stories.
9️⃣. Later Life and Death:
In his later years, Boccaccio became more religious and contemplative. He experienced financial difficulty and declining health.
He died in 1375 in Certaldo, one year after Petrarch’s death.
🔟. Critical Evaluation:
Boccaccio’s importance lies in:
♦️Creating modern narrative prose
♦️Depicting social diversity
♦️Establishing the novella form
♦️Bridging medieval romance and Renaissance realism
♦️He transformed storytelling into a vehicle for observing human society.
1️⃣1️⃣. Conclusion:
Giovanni Boccaccio is not merely a storyteller of amusing tales. He is:
♦️A pioneer of Renaissance prose
♦️A humanist scholar
♦️A realist observer of society
♦️A foundational figure in European literature
For English literature students, he is essential because he shapes the tradition that later leads to Chaucer and the development of narrative fiction.
Without Boccaccio, the evolution of the modern short story and prose narrative would have been profoundly different.
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The fibonacci sequence shapes a surreal bamboo and basalt beach club in Bali 🌿🌊 
Guided by the golden ratio, the masterplan organizes a series of organically formed structures across the sloping, oceanfront site. proportional relationships inform the placement and orientation of each volume, creating a fluid spatial rhythm that connects architecture, landscape, and sea.
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POV: You’re in the middle of the ocean and, for some reason, you need to write something down. To your surprise and delight, you discover that there are about three hundred species of sea pen! Unfortunately for you, none of them can be used for writing.
Named for their resemblance to old-fashioned quills, sea pens are actually not single animals: They are colonies of polyps. All of the polyps work together and each has a role to play. There are feeding polyps that catch plankton, as well as polyps that circulate water to keep the colony balanced and upright.
Photo: Glenn Biscop, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
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In 1958, Minoru Yamasaki designed the McGregor Conference Center at Wayne State University in Detroit. The building's marble atrium, adorned with pyramidal skylights, stands out as a key feature.
This project was an early example of Yamasaki's architectural prowess, predating his famous design of the World Trade Center in New York.
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On this day in 1967, The Beatles single “Strawberry Fields Forever” debuted at #83 on the US Billboard charts (February 25)
The John Lennon composition (credited to Lennon–McCartney) was a double A-side single with “Penny Lane”, and Lennon based the song on his childhood memories of playing in the garden of Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children's home in Liverpool.
Like "Penny Lane", which Paul McCartney wrote in late 1966 in response to Lennon's new song, "Strawberry Fields Forever" conveys nostalgia for the Beatles' early years in Liverpool.
While both songs refer to actual locations, McCartney said that the two pieces also had strong surrealistic and psychedelic overtones.
George Martin, the Beatles' producer, recalled that when he first heard "Strawberry Fields Forever", he thought it conjured up a "hazy, impressionistic dreamworld".
On the US Billboard Hot 100 the two sides of a single were counted separately whether defined as a double A-side or not (for example, "She's a Woman" reached #4 in 1964 despite being a B-side). "Penny Lane" topped the chart for one week, while "Strawberry Fields Forever" peaked at #8.
The single was also #1 in Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, and peaked at #5 in New Zealand.
It peaked at #2 in the UK due to chart protocol whereby only the sales of the best-selling side of a double A-side were eligible, and the record's overall sales were effectively halved.
"Strawberry Fields Forever" is one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" and in 1999 was inducted into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Grammy Hall of Fame.
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El Salvador… 
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Beatles legend George Harrison was born in Liverpool, England, on this day in 1943 (February 25)
The faces out front and in the headlines for the Beatles were often John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but George Harrison preferred to stay in the background, writing his songs, playing his guitar, and singing those beautiful harmonies.
He embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work.
Although the majority of the band’s songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions, including songs like Taxman", “While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and “Here Comes the Sun".
After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album “All Things Must Pass”, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, "My Sweet Lord", a #1 hit around the world, the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK, and the very first #1 single by an ex-Beatle.
In 1988, he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album “Cloud Nine”.
Harrison died of cancer on 29 November 2001, aged 58.
In 2004, Harrison was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist by his former bandmates Lynne and Petty.
He was also posthumously honoured with The Recording Academy's Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards in February 2015.
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TasteAtlas Eat Local, Eat Seasonal. Last chance to find these products at their peak before they leave the markets.
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George Clooney driving his 1959 Chevrolet Corvette.
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Midweek gym session 💪 
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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher at Whitesand Beach ⛱️ 
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Johannes Kepler
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
"Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
These works also provided one of the foundations for Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg. Later he became an assistant to the astronomer Tycho Brahe in Prague, and eventually the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II.
He also taught mathematics in Linz, and was an adviser to General Wallenstein. Additionally, he did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting telescope, and was mentioned in the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei."
Born: December 27, 1571, Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt, Holy Roman Empire
Died: November 15, 1630, Free Imperial City of Regensburg, Holy Roman Empire
Fields: Astronomy, astrology, mathematics, natural philosophy
Education: Tübinger Stift, University of Tübingen (M.A, 1591)
Known for: Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler conjecture, Rudolphine Tables
Influences: Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Pythagoras
Influenced: Sir Isaac Newton, Benoit Mandelbrot, Thomas Browne
"(K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication" by Gloria Pierre, (p. 147), 2005.
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It's InvasiveSpeciesWeek!
The red invasive bryozoan Watersipora subtorquata is an invasive species along the West Coast, where it can harm native invertebrate species by smothering them or outcompeting them for space.
This filter-feeding invertebrate grows on hard surfaces like rocks, pier pilings, and ship hulls.
Scientists with NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary continue to study Watersipora to understand how it is impacting the health of the sanctuary.
👉 Learn more: 
On this day in 1979, the LP “Cheap Trick at Budokan” debuted on the Billboard 200 Album Chart at #93, and the UK Albums Chart at #68 (February 24)
It was the first live album by Cheap Trick, and not only their best-selling recording, but arguably one of the best live albums in rock history…
Cheap Trick found early success in Japan, and capitalized on this popularity by recording Cheap Trick at Budokan at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on April 28 and 30, 1978, with an audience of 12,000 screaming Japanese fans nearly drowning out the band at times.
Originally intended only for release in Japan, the album went to #1 in Canada, #2 in the Netherlands, #4 in the US, #10 in New Zealand, #12 in Japan, #26 in Sweden, and #29 in the UK.
It was ranked #426 in the 2003 edition of Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
In 2019, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In its official press release upon the album's entry into the National Recording Registry, the Library of Congress stated that, along with its success in the Japanese market, Cheap Trick at Budokan "proved to be the making of the band in their home country, as well as a loud and welcomed alternative to disco and soft rock and a decisive comeback for rock and roll."
The album was included in the book “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”.
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Recording sessions had been disrupted when bassist and keyboard player John Paul Jones had proposed quitting the band, supposedly to become choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral, England, although in reality he just needed time to rest after Zeppelin's demanding tour schedule.
The group decided on a double album so they could feature songs left over from their previous albums Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV and Houses Of The Holy.
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📍 Burano Island, Venice, Italy 🇮🇹
No filter. Burano's houses really look like this. Every building on this tiny island in the Venetian lagoon is painted a different colour, a tradition that dates back centuries so fishermen could spot their homes through the fog 🎨. The local government still enforces the palette, and if you want to repaint, you need to apply for an approved colour.
It's a 40-minute vaporetto ride from Venice proper, which means most day-trippers show up around midday and leave by 4 PM. Come earlier or later and you'll have the canals nearly to yourself. Walk past the main drag and you'll find lace workshops where artisans still stitch by hand, a craft the island has been known for since the 1500s 🧵.
Skip the overpriced restaurants on the main canal. The best risotto al nero di seppia is at the smaller spots a street or two back.
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