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MovieMonday: Buster Keaton is in love with the girl next door in “Neighbors,” 1920; that girl being Virginia Fox, who would appear with him in eight other features, nine if you include “The Love Nest,” where she is the treacherous viper in the photo.

Balham, London, ca. 1961 - by Paul Kaye, English

Sneak attack: a polar bear cub attempts an underwater surprise attack on a northern fulmar, 2024 - by Erlend Haarberg (1966), Norwegian

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The komusō (literally “priest of nothingness” or “monk of emptiness”) were a group of Zen Buddhist mendicant monks who wandered the roads of Edo period Japan. They would play elaborate tunes on their bamboo flutes as they begged for alms, their faces (and thus, their ego) completely concealed by a distinctive hood woven from straws or reeds. Unsurprisingly, many were recruited as spies or were actually ninja or ronin in disguise, and eventually their temples and their schools were abolished for meddling in material affairs instead of spiritual ones.

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