#OTD 20 October 2018, launch of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on Ariane 5 VA245 from Europe's Spaceport on an expected seven-year journey to Mercury. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @sci.esa.int @cnes.fr @esa.int #WelcomeToMercury

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Virgin Mary bops red tutu-clad devil on the nose, and grabs back a written contract that a wayward cleric had earlier signed with the devil but later recanted. This image is from one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive (The De Brailes Hours, 1420) searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

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did not expect being surrounded by great horned owls tonight

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Also: the Welsh word for carrot is 'Moron'. Carrot is emphatically *not* a moron, but anyone not looking closely might think otherwise. And Terry's mother was Welsh.

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I also suddenly realized a few years ago that • carrot is a vegetable • one British slang term for policeman is “peeler” • therefore Constable Carrot is a vegetable peeler I don’t think this is ever explicitly mentioned in the text. A true pun-master, trolling us from beyond the grave.

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