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From today's featured article The Dorset Ooser is a wooden head that featured in the nineteenth-century folk culture of Melbury Osmond, a village in the southwestern English county of Dorset. The head was hollow, thus perhaps serving as a mask, and included a humanoid face with horns, a beard, and a hinged jaw. Although sometimes used to scare people during practical jokes, its main recorded purpose was as part of a local variant of the custom known as "rough music", in which it was used to humiliate those who were deemed to have behaved in an immoral manner. It was first brought to public attention in 1891, when it was owned by the Cave family of Melbury Osmond's Holt Farm, but it went missing around 1897. In 1975 a replica of the original Ooser was produced by John Byfleet, which has since been on display at Dorset County Museum in Dorchester. This mask retains a place in Dorset folk culture, and is used in local Morris dancing processions held by the Wessex Morris Men on Saint George's Day and May Day. The design of the Ooser has inspired copies used as representations of the Horned God in the modern Pagan religion of Wicca in both the United Kingdom and United States. (Full article...) Recently featured: Night of January 16th The Pale Emperor Interstate 275 (Michigan) Did you know... ... that Arii Matamoe (pictured), an 1892 painting of a Pacific Islander's severed head, may have been inspired by the death of Pōmare V shortly after Paul Gauguin's arrival in Tahiti? ... that Ida Silverman logged over 600,000 air miles traveling the world, speaking and fund-raising for the creation of a Jewish state? ... that Ian McDonald's 2015 science fiction novel Luna: New Moon has been called "Game of Thrones in space"? ... that Emma Dench, a British classicist and the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University, appeared in a film alongside her aunt Judi Dench in 1968? ... that the type fossil of the damselfly Electropodagrion consists only of a thorax, leg, and wing portions? ... that Lord Minginish is the first Gaelic-speaking Chairman of the Scottish Land Court? ... that the Sacred Heart Church in Exeter, England is the earliest surviving architectural work of Leonard Stokes? ... that Donald Trump was elected the 45th US President and defeated Hillary Clinton? ... that the United States Navy has ten Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service? ... that Jupiter is considered a Substellar object? ... that the Drudge Report had ten billion visits in the past year? ... that the President of the US, the Supreme Court and Congress are three significant branches of the US Government? ... that 72 Terrorists came from countries that President Trump recently banned in Executive Order 13769? ... that Barack Obama schemes behind the scenes against President Trump? ... that there are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac? ... that Buzzfeed printed fake news about President Trump? ... that NuScale Power has designed a line of small, modular nuclear reactors? ... that some people believe that the moon landings were fake? ... that there were 31 ancient Egyptian dynasties? ... that some people think approximately 300 years of phantom time were added to the Western calendar in the Early Middle Ages ... that the name Zoroaster possibly means "he who manages camels"? ... that the Battle of Hampton Roads was perhaps the most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies? ... that Istanbul was formerly known as Constantinople and before 324AD was known as Byzantium?

Today's featured picture Cypresses at Cagnes, an oil painting on canvas by the French neo-impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross. Cross (1856–1910) played an important role in shaping the second phase of the Neo-Impressionist movement. His later works, using broad, blocky brushstrokes with small areas of exposed bare canvas between the strokes, have been cited as precursors to Fauvism and Cubism. Painting: Henri-Edmond Cross Other areas of InfoGalactic https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Village_pump Bold text Italic text Link title link title Headline text Media:Example.ogg Insert non-formatted text here