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This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

Raoul Dufy (Designer) , Bianchini Férier (Producer) Les Fruits D'Afrique (The Fruits of Africa), Panel Entitled "La Marine", D'Afrique 1915-1930 Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed

nothing is scarier than seeing what the front page of YouTube looks like when you're not logged in

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One of my favorite historical deepdive topics is the friendship between CS Lewis (the author for The Chronicles of Narnia) and JRR Tolkien (the author for The Lord of the Rings).

There's so much good stuff to talk about like how Tolkien nearly broke off his friendship with Lewis because he wanted to put Santa Claus in his books, or how Tolkien got pissed about CS Lewis being called an "ascetic writer" in an interview because he watched him sling back 4 beers at lunch the day before. Plus the fact that Tolkien famously hated his work being taken as an allegory or metaphor, meanwhile Lewis was like "if one person doesn't understand that the lion is Jesus I'll shoot myself"

But I think my favorite piece of their history together is the letter CS Lewis sent to JRR Tolkien describing Aslan.

Because you think back on this time period and go "everyone was so stuffy and uptight and miserable, they're nothing like us"... but then the first ever drawing of Aslan by CS Lewis was this

Tetsuo Aoki

Two People

Woodcut

Davidson Galleries

Paintings from the ‘Peripety’ series by Jen Mazza

by HITTHEROAD

Martin Jacobson (Swedish, b. 1978, Stockholm, Sweden) - Turkos Snö, Hudfärgad Himmel (Turquoise Snow, Flesh Colored Sky), 2013, Paintings: Watercolors on Paper 

Too warm for snow

New illustration for Harugo No Mayu print collection!

Limited edition of 30 prints available here.