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Princess Ileana of Romania (also Mother Alexandra) (5 January 1909 – 21 January 1991) was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania, and his consort Queen Marie of Romania. She was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and of Czar Alexander II. She was born Her Royal Highness Ileana, Princess of Romania, Princess of Hohenzollern. After marriage she was known as Her Imperial and Royal Highness, Ileana, Archduchess of Austria, Princess Imperial of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Princess of Tuscany, Princess of Romania, Princess of Hohenzollern.

Ileana was born in Bucharest on 5 January 1909, the youngest daughter of Queen Marie of Romania and King Ferdinand I of Romania. Although it was rumored that Ileana’s true father was her mother’s lover, Prince Barbu Ştirbey, the king admitted paternity. Ileana had four older siblings: Carol, Elisabeth – later Crown Princess of Greece, Princess Maria – later Queen of Yugoslavia – and Nicholas. Her younger brother Mircea was also claimed to be the child of Prince Ştirbey even though the king also claimed to be his father.

In January 1991, she suffered a broken hip in a fall on the evening before her eighty-second birthday, and while in hospital, suffered two major heart attacks. She died four days after the foundations had been laid for the expansion of the monastery.

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FRANCE, MONTIGNAC : An artist works on true-to-life replica of renowned Lascaux’s Stone Age cave paintings, on February 29, 2016, at the future international cave arts museum, Lascaux IV, in Montignac, western France. The cave of Lascaux is one of the largest decorated caves of the Paleolithic. The age of the paintings and engravings is estimated between about 18.000 and 17.000 years. The cave of Lascaux is reproduced identically to be mounted in the International Centre of the parietal art of Montignac-Lascaux. / AFP / MEHDI FEDOUACH                        

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Baby ox. Roast pig. 

The Numbers Are In: The War on Cops Is a Right-Wing Myth

Policing is safer than it's been in years.

According to the FBI, 2015 was one of the safest years on record to be a police officer in America. Agency data shows 41 officers were killed in the line of duty last year, a drop of 20 percent from one year prior. Only in 2013, when felonious police fatalities hit an historic all-time low, were fewer officers killed while doing their jobs. The year 2015 tied with 2008 for the second lowest death rate for police on record…

This is one of the really interesting methods used by scientists to discover the information shared in Skunk Bear’s new video:

The level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere will soon be indistinguishable from pre-1940s levels, so this method won’t work for much longer.

Loved watching this show as a kid

Erin Gray in disguise!

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), “Olympiad”

Germany had so much renewable energy on May 8, 2016, that it had to pay citizens to use electricity. It was so windy and sunny that turbines and solar power sources were supercharged, output exceeded demand, and prices went negative, so customers were actually paid to consume energy. Source

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Today the ocean is blue like a galaxy in outer space where you swim through stars and black holes and the forcefields of moons, and it never ends. If I think too much about infinity, I have to close my eyes. Down here the earth is chained like a little dock to the rocks. We spin and spin and we don’t ever let go.

From: EXPLORING MOTHERHOOD IN PORTLAND, MAINE WITH PHOTOGRAPHER WINKY LEWIS

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