M.J. Rose

As if the zombie apocalypse happened and everyone abandoned their cars trying to get out of town…

Photos of a traffic jam stuck in the woods for 70 years

(Death and Taxes magazine)

“Around the town of Chatillon, Belgium, the end of World War II left a few creepy hallmarks of the armistice in the form of long lines of cars left abandoned by the hundreds in the woods. While one theory goes that the cars belonged to Americans who left them in a hurry on their way off the continent, Bored Panda points out that no one really knows for sure…”

For more photos of this strangeness, click here.

Larger news sources are now picking up a recent story about a compelling UFO spotted above an old copper mine in Chile…

Is this a flying saucer? Chilean government publishes report declaring object spotted above remote copper mine an ‘official UFO’ (Daily Mail UK)

• Government agency in Chile says object is ‘of great interest, and it can be qualified as a UFO’
• Committee for the Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena studied photographs after object was spotted by engineers at copper mine
• Agency ruled out possibility of meteorological phenomena as well as experimental aircraft, planes, weather balloons and drones

“A government agency in Chile has published a report on two photographs showing an object which it claims ‘can be qualified as a UFO.’

The Committee for the Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), part of Chile’s Ministerial Department of Civil Aeronautics, studied photographs of the object after it was spotted by four engineers above a remote copper mine.

According to the report, the engineers described the object as ‘a flattened disc of brilliant colour with a diameter of 5 to 10 metres [16 to 32 feet]. It performed ascending, descending and horizontal movements in short lengths, about 600 meters above the ground.'”…

More photos and the rest of the article here.

“Thumb” through a beautiful old book from The Public Domain Review…

Women painters of the world from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day; 1905; edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow; The Copp Clark Company Limited, Toronto.

“A heavily illustrated collection of essays, edited by British art critic Walter Shaw Sparrow, focusing on notable women painters from the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. Of the eight essays only one is written by a woman, Helena Westermarck, a Finnish artist and women’s historian active in the suffragette movement. From the rather lavish preface by Sparrow :

What is genius? Is it not both masculine and feminine? Are not some of its qualities instinct with manhood, while others delight us with the most winning graces of a perfect womanhood? Does not genius make its appeal as a single creative agent with a two-fold sex?…”

See the rest here.

Plus, a video, below — “a 3-minute journey through 500 years of female portraits” —