N is for Nebula

This is the Pillars of Creation nebula and the Horsehead nebula, smushed together.

P.S. This one lost a lot of detail in scanning, so I might upload a photo of it later.

M is for Mars Rover

K is for Klingon

I is for Imagined Things

D is for Dehydrated Food

Fact:  Astronauts don't eat bread in space-- they use tortillas instead (fewer crumbs.)

C is for Constellation

B is for Roberta Bondar

Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.  I've had it drilled into my head since kindergarten that she's an Important Lady, so she couldn't be left out.

Z is for Frank Zappa

Woooooo!  That's month four done!  Didja have a favourite one?

I'm lining up posts for next month's alphabet, because I'm going to try really hard to make it daily.  "A" goes up Monday!

U is for Ung-Yong Kim

This one is taken from a photo of Ung-Yong solving a differential equation on Japanese television age SEVEN.  He is believed to have the highest IQ of any person alive (210.)

"He began speaking at 4 months, could converse fluently by 6 months, and was able to read Japanese, Korean, German and English by his second birthday. At the age of 4 he solved a calculus problem on Japanese television.


Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University auditing courses from the age of 4 until he was 7. In 1970, at the age of 8, he was invited to the USA by NASA.  He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D. in physics at Colorado State University In 1974 (age TWELVE,) during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978."

R is for Mark Rothko

Q is for Q

Y'know, like from James Bond.

L is for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Invented Calculus (independently from Newton's work in the field.)  Whatever, I could do that.

J is for Dr Jekyll (and Mr Hyde)

I is for Eugene Ionesco

Meant to post this earlier, was too busy being Christmas-y and crying at the end of It's A Wonderful Life (er... several times over.)

F is for Bobby Fischer

Made Chess Grandmaster at age 15 in 1958, and maintained the record for youngest Grandmaster ever until 1991.

My scanner still doesn't like graphite.  I messed with contrast and brightness, so I lost some detail, but it still turned out okay.

E is for Albert Einstein

Married a woman who was his first AND second cousin.

D is for Charles Darwin

Such a serious looking dude.

B is for Lord Byron AND Ada Lovelace Byron

Two geniuses for the price of one!  A poet (and radical bad boy) who was once described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," and his daughter, the mother of modern computing (who worked with Charles Babbage and is considered to have been the world's first computer programmer... in the 1840s.)  Hardcore family.

So, my scanner seems to hate graphite-- I had to really mess with contrast and selective colour just to get my shading visible on this one.  I think I'm going back to pen and maybe some charcoal for the next few.

Z is for Zombie

Seriously, 50 points and my eternal friendship if you know who this is.

And that's the end of weapons!

U is for USS Enterprise