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Once you reach 200 metres, you enter the twilight zone – where light is almost gone, plants cannot photosynthesize. This zone extends from 200 to 1,000 metres.

Further down is the midnight zone (1,000 – 4,000 metres), which is completely dark, cold and under enormous pressure.

Below that is the abyss (4,000 – 6,000 metres), then the hadal zone – deep trenches on the ocean floor, starting at 6,000 metres.

The deepest known point is the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of 10,935 metres, deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

The deepest humans have ever dived in a scuba diving device is 332 metres, and in a submersible it is 10,935 metres, reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

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Niki de Saint Phalle, "Hon - en katedral" (She - A Cathedral),1966,

In collaboration with Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Ultvedt

Image Courtesy of Hans Hammarskiöld Heritage.

© Hans Hammarskiöld

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Jana Sterbak, "Sisyphus Sport," 1997 - 2014,

Stone, leather straps and metal buckles

1 AP /5 + 1 AP

42.0 x 35.0 x 16.0 (cm) (16.5 x 13.8 x 6.3 (inch))

Courtesy: Barbara Gross Galerie

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Batocera lineolata !

This photography was taken by Dara Ojo, originally from Nigeria and now living in China, who spotted the insect in Jiaxing, a city outside Shanghai.

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Happy Juneteenth !

"Celebrate, Educate, and to agitate."

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Yuji Agematsu, "Zip: 01-01-2024–12-31-2024," Detail,

Mixed media in cigarette pack cellophane wrappern,

Photo by Reggie Shiobara

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The unsettling art of illustrator Walter Molino for “La Domenica del Corriere” Italian weekly magazine.

Molino (1915-1997) was an illustrator of the worst possible circumstances. In precise frozen detail, he pictured mayhem and madness, desperation and destruction.

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Ghost's Dinner, 2012,

In the North, the table is overloaded, while the countries of the South, never invited to share, remain ghostly shadows.

Wood, Metal, Glass, Porcelain, Spikes,

120 x 170 cm

Private Collection / Dapper Foundation,

Photography: Olivier Gallaud

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Last Word !

Ingredients: - 22,5 ml London Dry Gin - 22,5 ml Green Chartreuse - 22,5 ml Maraschino Liqueur - 22,5 ml Fresh Lime Juice

Garnish: - Lime Twist - Cocktail Cherry

Instructions: • Combine all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker. • Add ice and shake until chilled. • Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass. • Garnish with a lime twist and a cocktail cherry.

This article was not sponsored or supported by a third-party. A Cocktail Moment is not affiliated with any individuals or companies depicted here.

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Blood Falls, Antarctica

The Waterfall is an outflow of an iron(III) oxide–tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

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Nobuyoshi Araki, “Untitled [92/9/21]” (1993),

From the series 101 Works for Robert Frank (Private Diary) (1992–2005).

© Nobuyoshi Araki, courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York

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Hiroshi Sugimoto, "Einstein tower," 2000,

Gelatin silver print, 149 x 119.5 cm.

mage, sheet, mount:

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LOVE SICK !

Phantom City Creative for Polluted Pictures

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 French poet, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. NYC, USA. 1949,

Gelatin silver print,

8.1/8 x 7in. (20.7 x 19cm.)

© Philippe Halsman

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Nakba Day

It's a date inked in infamy for generations of Palestinians.

Each year, on 15 May, millions mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.

In a premeditated military campaign, Zionist forces killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed hundreds of villages and forcibly expelled 80 percent of the Palestinian population from their homeland. 

After more than a year of relentless violence, the newly created State of Israel captured 78 percent of historic Palestine. 

The remaining 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, were occupied by Israel 19 years later and remain under Israeli military rule. 

The League of Nations gave Britain a "mandate" over Palestine after the war, in an arrangement that did not take into account the wishes of the native Palestinian population. 

In the case of Palestine, the British Mandate incorporated the "Balfour Declaration" that pledged to establish "in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people", who made up less than 10 percent of the population at the time. 

During the mandate years between 1923-48, Britain facilitated the immigration of  European Jews to Palestine, increasing their population ten-fold, from 60,000 in the pre-Mandate era to 700,000 by 1948. 

They also trained Zionist armed groups, provided them with weapons and allowed them a degree of self-governance. 

Meanwhile, the native Palestinian population was violently suppressed following rebellions that called for independence and rejected European Jewish immigration.

In February 1947, Britain announced it would terminate the mandate and turn the question of Palestine over to the United Nations. 

The UN adopted a partition plan in November 1947, which divided Palestine into two parts: 55 percent to a Jewish state, and 45 to an Arab state, while keeping Jerusalem under international control.

Palestinians were not consulted over the proposal which never materialised. From that point on, Zionist groups began their attacks. 

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José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (20 May 1935 – 13 May 2025)

Mr Mujica Cordano was an Uruguayan politician, revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.

He was a former guerrilla with the Tupamaros and was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.

"Pepe" was a member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator afterwards.

As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as president on 1 March 2010.

Mr Mujica had been described as "the world's poorest president" due to his austere lifestyle and his donation of around 90 percent of his US$12,000 monthly salary to charities that benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs.

An outspoken critic of capitalism's focus on stockpiling material possessions which do not contribute to human happiness.

In June 2012, Mr Mujica's government legalize state-controlled sales of marijuana in Uruguay in order to fight drug-related crimes and health issues, and stated that global leaders would be asked to do the same.

Mr Mujica said that by regulating Uruguay's estimated US$40 million-a-year marijuana business, the state would take it away from drug traffickers and weaken the drug cartels. The state would also be able to keep track of all marijuana consumers in the country and provide treatment to the most serious abusers, much like the treatment afforded to alcoholics.

Mr Mujica also passed a same-sex marriage law and legalized abortion.

In September 2013, Mujica addressed the United Nations General Assembly's 68th session, with a long speech devoted to humanity and globalization.The speech called on the international community to strengthen efforts to preserve the planet for future generations and highlighted the power of the financial systems and the impact of economic fallout on ordinary people.

He urged a return to simplicity, with lives founded on human relationships, love, friendship, adventure, solidarity and family, instead of lives shackled to the economy and the markets.

The share of social expenditure in total public expenditure thus rose from 60.9% to 75.5% between 2004 and 2013. During this period, the unemployment rate remained at about 7%, the national poverty rate was reduced from 18% to 9.7% and the minimum wage was raised from 4,800 pesos to 10,000 pesos (average annual inflation rate of 7%).

It also supported the strengthening of trade unions. According to the International Trade Union Confederation, Uruguay became the most advanced country in the Americas in terms of respect for "fundamental labor rights, in particular freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining and the right to strike".

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