Cool Facts- The Etruscan shrew is the smallest living mammal based on weight. These tiny shrews are on a clock from the minute they start their day. Eating twice their body weight in insects daily, these shrews have to maintain enough energy to avoid hypothermia. The Etruscan shrew depends on touch while finding food, scurrying through underbrush in search of worms and grasshoppers. Males and females pair in the spring or fall to raise a family. A female is pregnant for less than a month and the cubs are weaned by four weeks of age. When mom or dad wants to move their family, they do it in a conga line with a row of cubs biting each other’s tail to prevent them from getting lost.
In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their thirteenth show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Bologna, Italy. At this show, Gerard Way wore a "(GI)" t-shirt from the band Germs, and "Mosquito" was written on the drums. (🖤)
Ferrari 3.2 Mondial Cabriolet, 1985. The date is June 4, 1988 and Pope John Paul II is visiting Fiorano, Italy and Maranello, home of the prancing horse brand. At this time Enzo Ferrari is still alive but too ill to meet with the Pope though they did speak on the phone. The Mondial Cabriolet was made between 1983 and 1989 in 3.0 and 3.2 litre versions. It remains the only mid-engined supercar to be offered with 4 seats and a fully convertible roof
leave me alone. let me soak in the first few days of june. let the birds wake me up as they sing a song and let the rays of sun slowly creep in through my blinds. let me rest. let me simmer in my thoughts. the months are passing us by fast. it is june and i want to savour it.
Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 4 juin 1800, An 8 (220): Fichu et Bandeau. Tablier.
Fichu and 'Bandeau' (headband) with egret. Apron with a pattern of vertical zig-zag bands of circles, on a striped dress with train. Further accessories: long gloves, flat shoes with pointed toes. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Pierre de la Mésangère, Paris, 1797-1839.
Thomas Alva Edison visits his old shop on 15th Street, June 4, 1923. He looked over the scene of his earlier experiments and got a fine comparison between the old and the new in machinery. He also had his photo taken with the old-fashioned automobile that Leon Mendel built when Edison first started his experiment with the electric light system more than forty years previously.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
Staff Sergeant Murphy McIntosh (Muscogee) about to embark for overseas service, on June 4, 1943.
Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of Transportation
Series: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation
Image description: Staff Sergeant McIntosh, in Army uniform and helmet, carrying various pieces of gear. Behind him are other soldiers with their own gear; they all stand on a wooden pier with a ship in the background.
Image description: Same photo, but zoomed in so we can see SSgt McIntosh’s face more clearly.