10 Short Videos #6233

10 Short Videos #6233

1. These Farmers Know How To Call Them Back 😂🐓
2. Scientists Spot Microscopic Light Flash the Second Life Begins!
3. This Mental Math Competition Looks Unreal 🧠😳
4. Do you remember the legendary masterpiece from the All Japan Costume Contest? 🎭✨.
5. Automated Police Drone Station 🚁
6. Day 68 - jumping rope
7. From Outlaw to Inventor | Carbine Williams
8. TOYAN V8 micro engine fitting
9. Forging a Shovel 🔥
10. Why the U.S. Military Blows up Its Own Ammo 💥🤯

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White Linen

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds - Jacob van Ruisdael 1665

The painting's title takes me to Wikipedia which leads to asking Google about linen bleaching which gets me this:

In 1670, the linen bleaching process was a slow, multi-step photochemical method. Centered in places like Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, it required weeks of washing, boiling in alkaline lye, soaking in massive amounts of sour buttermilk, and prolonged exposure to sunlight on open grass fields (bleachfields).

More from Wikipedia:

The success of the linen-bleaching industry in Haarlem had reached its climax at the time that Ruisdael painted this work. There were other linen-bleaching centers in the Netherlands; however, none of these locations were endowed with the perfect mixture of natural resources that Haarlem had. During the seventeenth century, linen bleached in Haarlem was highly sought after and quite expensive; this was the cause of the economic prosperity in Haarlem and the wealth of Haarlem linen merchants. All linen bleached in Haarlem received the name toiles de Hollande, or "Haarlemmer Bleek," which means Haarlem bleach. Regardless of where the linen was woven, if it was bleached in Haarlem it was called toiles de Hollande.

I thought for sure 'wrapped in white linen' is a line in the song Lucky Man by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but it's not. The line is from The Streets of Laredo by a host or artists.

Construction Physics got me started.

Union Jack

The Union Jack, the national flag of the United Kingdom, combines the Crosses of
St. George (England), St. Andrew (Scotland), and St. Patrick (Ireland).

Stu's post about the Union Jack got me started. The flag arose in 1606.

10 Short Videos #6232

10 Short Videos #6232

1. Hunting big moose almost on face
2. DH.88 Comet — Have We Seen Her Last Flight?
3. How Fulton-surface-to-air recovery system works 😳✈️
4. Morning chaos… - Farming while beige
5. They Shoveled Fertilizer With Dynamite… 💥
6. The Moment an Iceberg Crashes into the Sea!
7. 5 MPH VS 50 - Street Sweeper
8. Playing this on repeat. 🔁 - Airliner thrust reversers
9. Natural copper bookends
10. Mechanical Snake Ring Box

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10 Short Videos #6231

10 Short Videos #6231

1. オムロン多機能タイムリレー徹底解説｜制御部品のメカニズム解析 - A thorough explanation of Omron's multi-function time relay | Mechanism analysis of control components
2. Heavy Utility Truck Anchor Digging Into Earth
3. Best Sounding Missile System Ever - Strela-10
4. 대형 바위 해체를 위한 중장비 견인 파쇄 공정 - Heavy equipment towing crushing process for dismantling large rocks
5. Do you remember the legendary masterpiece from the All Japan Costume Contest? 🎭✨.
6. My Knob - rotary encoder
7. The green one has probably worked in Hollywood 😂 - Birds play acting
8. he found treasure - grapes
9. Why Number 2 Pencils?
10. Me thinking i have mastered English Meanwhile a random British