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let me guess. all the leaves are brown and the sky is gray?

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Universities should have swing sets

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A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & a 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-the-stone-age/

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“They’re each other's first love, I would say, and they’re incredibly heartbroken towards the end.”

— Olivia Cooke.

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National Geographic’s Travelling the Trans-Canada, 1987

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Vincent Price dress rehearsal for Victoria Regina (1935)

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“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”

– Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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Andrew Wyeth, The Carry, 2003, Tempera on panel

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i will change my entire life by next week btw

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I remember once sort of sitting down and thinking, ‘I am terribly depressed and this can not go on…’ and then I thought, ‘Well, you can do two things. You can kill yourself or you can get interested in absolutely everything.’ I read the newspaper every day; I read scientific books and geographical books and historical books and books in other languages, as well as the books that professionally I had to read, and suddenly the world became wonderful. 

AS Byatt, 1936-2023 (x)

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Kogei Club: Koseki (1971)

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Bthump

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Harald Sohlberg - The Mermaid (1896-98)

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Lit Hub has published a list of 40 Books to Understand Palestine put together by "several dozen Palestinian and Palestinian-American authors, as well as a number of other writers whose work and advocacy has focused on Palestine". Please consider reading and supporting Palestinian literature <3

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Ralph Steiner, Two Men and the Ocean, 1921

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