You know, I don't usually think of Gharials as frightening takers of humans...but it seems the ancient chinese had a real problem with losing people and livestock to them. So, hardware specialization for fish feeding aside, Gharials were clearly opportunistic assault ambush predators. which makes me rethink my image of what Spinosaurs were like. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220309104508.htm
lovely mignot military fort. this typifies late 19th century european military fortifications, the US didn't go in for this kind of fort building partly because we were a very cheap nation and partly because the national government saw coastal fort building as it's role, and left inland stuff to the states.
Bill McClanahan's Scenery for Model Railroads, at first glance seems like it would be a bit lightweight, it's in Kalambach's magazine type format, with a whiff of old comic books about it. One would be wrong, however. This is a dense and worthy tome of model making information. I learned more about my mistakes from it than from years of hands on plaster working. Of course that might just mean I'm a slow learner, but honestly, this is a cheap book for the quality of knowledge it contains.
