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On April 14, 1561, Nuremberg artist and publisher Hans Glaser created a broadsheet to document a strange celestial phenomenon witnessed over the city. The broadsheet featured a woodcut illustration and accompanying text describing the event. The illustration depicts a swirling mass of objects in the sky, including spheres, crosses, and tubes, with rays of light emanating from them. The text accompanying the image describes the event as a "dreadful apparition" and recounts how people in Nuremberg witnessed the objects moving across the sky, changing shape, and emitting strange sounds. The exact nature of the phenomenon remains a mystery, with various interpretations offered over the centuries.

Broadsheet translation:
"In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates and in the country – by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone. In between these globes there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes. These all started to fight among themselves, so that the globes, which were first in the sun, flew out to the ones standing on both sides, thereafter, the globes standing outside the sun, in the small and large rods, flew into the sun."

"Besides the globes flew back and forth among themselves and fought vehemently with each other for over an hour. And when the conflict in and again out of the sun was most intense, they became fatigued to such an extent that they all, as said above, fell from the sun down upon the earth 'as if they all burned' and they then wasted away on the earth with immense smoke. After all this there was something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west. Whatever such signs mean, God alone knows. Although we have seen, shortly one after another, many kinds of signs on the heaven, which are sent to us by the almighty God, to bring us to repentance, we still are, unfortunately, so ungrateful that we despise such high signs and miracles of God. Or we speak of them with ridicule and discard them to the wind, in order that God may send us a frightening punishment on account of our ungratefulness. After all, the God-fearing will by no means discard these signs, but will take it to heart as a warning of their merciful Father in heaven, will mend their lives and faithfully beg God, that He may avert His wrath, including the well-deserved punishment, on us, so that we may temporarily here and perpetually there, live as his children. For it, may God grant us his help, Amen. By Hanns Glaser, letter-painter of Nurnberg."

The original broadsheet measures 26.2 centimetres (10.3 in) by 38.0 centimetres (15.0 in). The document is archived in the prints and drawings collection at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland.

Image and translation source: English Post
 
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This showed up on the Bing search page during my usual daily Microsoft Rewards accumulation.
These companies literally do not care if their services are puking out AI trash.

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There is something beautiful about setting up an easel across the street from a bank and painting that bank on fire.

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Alex Schaefer (born 1969) is an American artist, painter, activist, and educator. He is a notable figure in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene, and has received widespread coverage regarding his series of paintings depicting real-world branches of various banks on fire.
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Hookshot said:
She looks more AI than the cock peninsular in the post above, but clicking the link shows she might be real.
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She's 100% "real". She's beautiful. Read an article about her the other day, that's her TikTok. She's pretty good at golf (pun intended). Though that swing needs some work haha
 
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