From the Big Picture (contains some fairly nasty ones of bulls getting stabbed and variously gushing and vomiting blood but also some ones of silly people getting nailed by bulls and one awesome one of a guy jumping over a bull)

Tragic subject matter but such an amazing photo – it almost looks like a painting:

(The Big Picture – #27)

A nice collection of Spring photos over on The Big Picture, including this very cute one of two bear cubs

Medieval ideas about Bears #1:

The bear cub is born as a shapeless and eyeless lump of flesh, which the mother bear shapes into its proper form by licking it (the origin of the expression “to lick into shape”) (link)

The Big Picture has a great selection of shots:

Or you can check out the full set at the National Geographic site.

The Big Picture has some pretty amazing during and one-year-later shots of Hurricane Ike hitting Texas.

The word Hurricane comes from the (now extinct?) language of the Taíno, from which we also get the words tobacco, potato, hammock and barbecue. Huraca’n means centre of the wind.