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this is an incredible map

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There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

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it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

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I mean it when I say that my reading list is longer than my life expectancy.

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Happy winter solstice! The light begins to return tomorrow!!

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"Challenging you all!

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!"

tagged by @castingmysilver, thank you!

I see shuffle does not believe in songs that don't start with the first three letters of the alphabet

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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

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Since the time of Maria Theresa the Hungarian nation has waited from generation to generation for a human being in this Imperial House. Someone to trust, someone worth living for, and someone worth dying for. We didn't come to see the Emperor of Austria today, but to see our future Queen!

SISSI - THE YOUNG EMPRESS (1956) dir. Ernst Marischka

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“Though the resolution of revolution was read throughout the land, the final signed version was not published until January 1777. By that time members of Congress, each with a price on his head for disloyalty to the Crown, were hiding out from the British in Baltimore. There the signers of the Declaration turned to a woman for the perilous job of printing the document, with their names attached, for the first time. The publisher of the “Maryland Journal”, Mary Katherine Goddard, bravely printed her own name at the bottom of the Declaration, becoming herself a signer of sorts, firmly associating herself with the dangerous cause of the new nation.”

— Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

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Mary Katherine Goddard (1738-1816) is a symbolic figure in American history for being the first to print the Declaration of Independence, with the names of the signatories. She was a publisher, as well as the postmaster for the Baltimore Post Office.

She was in charge of a printing press and a bookstore in her hometown of Baltimore, and ran the Maryland Journal. She offered her services in order to distribute the Declaration of Independence widely among the American people, despite risking being accused of treason by the British. Her copy was the second ever made, and the first to include the names of the signatories.

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Marl Martens (1921-)

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Marl Martens

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Clam Fisherman, by Marl Martens (1921-)

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Have you ever changed a diaper?

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(by Seele An)| Hangzhou, China