29. When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered.

BBC: 100 things we didn't know this time last year
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boynton

Auden

...agitprop and slogans,
all the trite forms of disinformation.
Good is always like starlight and sunlight,
and poetry when it means just what it says,
and yet admits the moon's ambiguities...

Mark Jarman
Poetry Daily
28.12.05

Maggot, Maggoty.

Whimsical, full of whims and fancies. Fancy tunes used to be called maggots, hence we have “Barker’s maggots,” “Cary’s maggots,” “Draper’s maggots,” etc. (Dancing Master, 1721.)

When the maggot bites. When the fancy takes us. Swift tells us that it was the opinion of certain virtuosi that the brain is filled with little worms or maggots, and that thought is produced by these worms biting the nerves. “If the bite is hexagonal it produces poetry; if circular, eloquence; if conical, politics, etc. (Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.)

Instead of maggots the Scotch say, “His head is full of bees;” the French, “Il a des rats dans la tête;” and in Holland, “He has a mouse’s nest in his head.” (See BEE.)

E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898.
Bartleby

Cut shot down and partly loaded

Coal Car in Pocahontas Mine
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Pony Pulling Worker Into Mine
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Coal Miners at Work
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Teach Sloan and child
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Deserted Houses of Coal Mining Families in Big Stick, West Virginia
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Old Houses
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Wall of Coal
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Samples from the Coal Mines of America

A few people, some wires, some horses, no cars.
Street Scene, Cambria, Virginia

Being towed across Conococheague Aquaduct
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Boat Locking Through Canal
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Lockkeeper & Family, Lock 25

Man Exiting Cave
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Man drinking coffee in cave

Some cars, some people, lots of wires.
Looking North on Jefferson St. from Campbell Ave. Roanoke, Virginia July 19,1932
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Railroad : Norfolk and Western Historical Photograph Collection : Maps, Fares, Timetables, and Train Schedules
Virginia Tech Imagebase

No cars, no people, no wires.
View of the street in Knoxville [Tennessee, 1880] from in front of Mrs. Maynard's house.
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Civil War: New England Press Association Photograph Album
Virginia Tech Imagebase