Gorillaland

A trio of curious lion cubs photographed in the Okavango Delta, Botswana by photographic safari guide, Grant Atkinson

December 3 - On this day in 1976, during the second day of photography at Battersea Power Station in London for the Animals cover, Pink Floyd’s pig balloon “Algie” broke from its tether and flew away. The balloon passed through Heathrow air space, causing a disruption to air traffic, before crashing down at a farm in Kent.

1934 Thanksgiving parade. They had way cooler balloons back then.

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The Bahamas are known for pink-sand beaches, insanely cool private islands, pigs that swim and great diving. And near Nassau, we’ve found a new treasure that’s definitely worth diving for — an artwork that is, according to its creator, the largest single underwater sculpture in the world.

"William Burroughs with a Jack-O-Lantern he carved with a hatchet, October 31, 1996," by Philip Heying.

“I think I was angriest when my father died. The saddest and the angriest. The saddest because he was gone, and I selfishly wanted him back. Angriest because it made me think about how we all have to die and that really made me angry.” “Angry at what?” “God, The Spirit, whatever it is that brought us here. I do believe in something. I don’t know what. But I don’t think we’re here because of some accidental chemical reaction. But life is like some toy, or some piece of candy, that God hands to the baby just to snatch it away. I mean, c’mon, did you really have to make us suffer to achieve salvation? Did Eve have to eat the apple? Did Jesus have to suffer on a cross so that we could be forgiven for our sins? You could have just snapped your fingers and forgiven our sins. You’re God. You could have cut out the whole middle part. But you chose to make us suffer. And that makes me angry.”

Trick or treat

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York City, 1972.

On this day in 1942, Michael Crichton was born in Chicago. “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” ― Michael Crichton Michael Crichton’s novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, and The Lost World, and he was as well the creator of the television series ER. Crichton died in 2008.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and fellow lawmakers stood for a thunderous, minutes-long ovation as Kevin Vickers, Canada’s Sergeant-at-Arms, led the traditional parade that opens every session of the House of Commons, dressed in ceremonial garb.

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