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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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While the #DogDays are technically over, that won't stop us from sharing this very good dog today!

The phrase "dog days" comes from this astronomical puppy Canicula, also known as Sirius. These lazy, hazy days of summer coincide with the rising of the Sirius star system alongside the sun.

Canicula, Orion's dog, is said to be chasing Lepus, the hare, across the night sky. That makes us think that perhaps we would rename Lepus Bunnicula.

Canicula from: John Seller, Atlas Coelestis (London, 1677).


#canicula #sirius #summer #tattooTuesday #puppies #astronomy

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These stunning watercolors recently came across our desk, and we just had to share them.

They are bound into our copy of Elisha Kane's "The US Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin," published in 1854, which chronicles the First Grinnell Expedition to determine the fate of Franklin's journey into the Northwest Passage in 1845.

Both of Franklin's ships became icebound, and none aboard survived. The shipwrecks were found in 2014 and 2016.

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Early American art! Stunning and historical! 

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Name three things on your desk that don’t belong there…

Yesterday was National Clean Off Your Desk Day. We cleaned off our desks, and all we got out of that was this draft. Anyway, consider clearing your workspace. That way, you’ll have tons more space to fill up again with whatever your heart desires but doesn’t need!

Apparently, some of you do not struggle with cluttered desks. Click here to enter a world of the perfectly ordered desks of the eerily productive (and some kinda messy ones we liked, we’re only human!).

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An empty diet coke can, nail polish, and a half eaten protein bar.