#Syriaaftermath regime airstrike on Tareeq al-Bab neighborhood in #Aleppo photo by Abdo Khuder: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 17 June 2016

Smoke and flames rose after what fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces said were American-led airstrikes on the mills of Manbij where Islamic State militants are positioned, in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday: photo by Rodi Said/Reuters, 16 June 2016

Smoke and flame rise after what fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces said were US-led air strikes on the mills of Manbij where Islamic State militants are positioned, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria: photo by Rodi Said / Reuters, 16 June 2016

How is it far, if you think of it?

We will stay constant in the Syrian revolution to overthrow the regime: aleppo: image via baraa al halabi @baraahalabi, 18 June 2016

"Still a young man..."
but the serious, tired eyes

are the eyes of an old man

who has known suffering

and lives in a very unsafe place.We don't want

to feel it but... we all want to be safe.We want to feel

we are good people. But we have our own pain.
We don't want to have to worry too much

about pain in faraway places

among people we think are nothing like us.Distance

means nearly everything to us.
Still...

How is it far, if you think of it?

#Syria: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 17 June 2016

Child pulled alive from rubble after #Fardos,#Aleppo strikes: image via Olivia Rosenman Verified account @oliviasophierose, 18 June 2016

#Footage - graphic! Just another day of #Assad's and #Putin's war crimes in #Aleppo city: image via Julian Röpcke @JulianRoepcke, 18 June 2016

SYRIA - A fighter from the opposition forces reads the Koran in Teir Maalah during Ramadan. By Mahmoud Taha #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2016

SYRIA - Fighters from the Free Syrian Army prepare to break the fast during the Ramadan in Jobar. By @SameerAlDoumy @AFPphoto: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 18 June 2016

SYRIA - Fighters from Syria's Manbij military council try to retake Manbij which is held by IS. By @Delilsouleiman: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP, 16 June 2016

When U.S.-backed forces seized Souad Hamidi's village in northern Syria from Islamic State last week, the 19-year-old swiftly tore off the niqab she had been forced to wear since 2014 and smiled. “I felt liberated,” Hamidi said after swapping her black face-covering veil for a red head scarf. “They made us wear it against our will so I removed it that way to spite them.” For the last two weeks, the Syria Democratic Forces, supported by U.S.-led air strikes, have waged an offensive against the Islamic State-held city of Manbij, near the Syria-Turkey border.: photo by Rodi Said / Reuters, 17 June 2016

SYRIA - Muslim worshippers prepare to break the fast at a mosque during Ramadan in Hamouria. By Amer Almohibany 3AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2016

SYRIA - A fighter from the Free Syrian Army rides his motorbike in Jobar near Dasmacus. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2016

Besieged Bereaved Displaced Bombed Sniped Massacred Detained Tortured Raped and starved By Assad and helpers #Syria: image via @RevolutionSyria, 18 June 2016

Another day of burying children under the rubble of their home by #Putin_Assad #Syria: image via @RevolutionSyria, 18 June 2016

A scared but brave kid innocently trying to shelter his sister in his arms to protect from hail of bullets. #Syria: image via @sournsmart, 18 June 2016

aftermath the explosion #Syria #Idlib: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 18 June 2016

#Syria more pictures after the #RuAF airstrike on New Syrian Army base: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 18 June 2016

#RuAF used cluster munitions against US-backed New #Syria|n Army near al-Tanef border crossing via Ali Rahabi: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 18 June 2016

Just look at the non verbal language. This meeting was held in #Syria: image via S.Rifai @THE_47th, 18 June 2016

among people we think are nothing

#Syria #Damascus The children of Darayya suburb - daily hit by dozens of airstrikes: image via Mark @markito0171, 16 June 2016

Just in case the media forgot to mention, there have already been 10 Airstrikes today targeting civilians #Syria: image via leena sahloul @_Leenaaaa, 18 June 2016

A member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent inspects a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-controlled city of Idlib, Syria: photo by Ammar Abdullah / Reuters, 15 June 2016

Children of Syria: image via Mahmoud AlhajiOthman @saefazzan, 20 June 2016

Josephine Miles: Belief

Mother said to call her if the H-bomb exploded

And I said I would, and it about did
When Louis my brother robbed a service station
And lay cursing on the oily cement in handcuffs.

But by that time it was too late to tell Mother,
She was too sick to worry the life out of her
Over why why. Causation is sequence
And everything is one thing after another.

Besides, my other brother, Eddie, had got to be President,
And you can't ask too much of one family.
The chances were as good for a good future
As bad for a bad one.

Therefore it was surprising that, as we kept the newspapers from Mother,
She died feeling responsible for a disaster unverified,
Murmuring, in her sleep as it seemed, the ancient slogan
Noblesse oblige.

**Josephine Miles (1911-1985): Belief, 1955, from Collected Poems 1930-1983**

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Gasstation, Washington, D.C.: photo by John Vachon, July 1937 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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Gasstation and gospel mission, Cleveland, Ohio: photo by John Vachon, August 1937 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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Gasstation, Butte, Montana: photo by Arthur Rothstein, Summer 1939 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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Gasstation at night, Dubuque, Iowa: photo by John Vachon, April 1940 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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An "open all night"gasstation in Durham, North Carolina: photo by JackDelano, May 1940 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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Gasstation, Benton Harbor, Michigan: photo by John Vachon, July 1940 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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Gasstation in Franklin, Heard County, Georgia, nine o'clock in the evening: photo by JackDelano, April 1941 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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Gasstation, Minneapolis, Minnesota: photo by John Vachon, January 1942 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

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Gasstation and road house, Union County, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, February 1942(Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

Josephine Miles: Family

When you swim in the surf off Seal Rocks, and your family
Sits in the sand
Eating potato salad, and the undertow
Comes which takes you out away down
To loss of breath loss of play and the power of play
Holler, say
Help, help, help. Hello, they will say,
Come back here for some potato salad.

It is then that a seventeen-year-old cub

Cruising in a helicopter from Antigua,
A jackstraw expert speaking only Swedish
And remote from this area as a camel, says
Look down there, there is somebody drowning.
And it is you. You say, yes, yes,
And he throws you a line.

Josephine Miles (1911-1985): Family, from Collected Poems 1930-1983

Children of Aleppo: image via Hozaifa Dahmaan @hozaifadahmaan, 20 June 2016

[Untitled]: image via Milad Shehabi @miladsyrian, 12 June 2016

@berkeleyside @ChevronRichmond i see...: image via Ariel Nava photo @arielnavaphoto, 20 June 2016

#Israel #Palestinian #Ramadan Muslim worshippers make their way at the Qalandia checkpoint @AFP by @Abbasmomani: image via Aurelia Bailly @AureliaBAILLY, 20 June 2016

People in Belarus celebrate Kupala night: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 20 June 2016

Young people wearing Belarus traditional clothes and wreaths dance around a bonfire as they celebrate the Ivan Kupala night, an ancient heathen holiday, held in the countryside near Minsk last night.: photo by Maxim Malinovsky/AFP, 20 June 2016

Indian yoga practitioners participate in a rehearsal for #InternationalDayofYoga in New #Delhi #Yoga #AFP: image via Chandan Khanna @Chandanphoto, 19 June 2016

Indian schoolchildren participate in a yoga session at a school in Chennai on June 20, 2016, on the eve of International Yoga Day. 4001 schoolchildren participated in the demonstration. Yoga, which means union in Sanskrit, is a family of ancient spiritual practices and also a school of spiritual thought from the South East Asian continent, where it remains a vibrant living tradition and is seen as a means of enlightenment. / AFP PHOTO / ARUN SANKARARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty Images

Indian schoolchildren participate in a yoga session at a school in Chennai on the eve of International Yoga Day: photo by Arun Sankar/AFP, 20 June 2016

World in focus — best photos for June 20, 2016

Indian schoolchildren participate in a yoga session at a school in Chennai: photo by Arun Sankar / AFP, 20 June 2016

People practice yoga on the outskirts of Beijing, China: photo by Reuters, 20 June 2016

PAKISTAN - Food preparations for Iftar are pictured onto the cart of a street seller in Karachi. By Asif Hassan #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 18 June 2016

Daily life at the Syrian refugee camp at Kab Elias in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley #AFP photo by @Patrick_Baz: image via Aurelia Bailly @AureliaBAILLY, 20 June 2016

LEBANON - A Syrian refugee sits with his children in a makeshift tent in a refugee camp in Kab Elias. By @Patrick_Baz: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 June 2016

A rescuer grabs a rope to prevent a raft carrying residents from being flushed away as residents are evacuated from a flooded area in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China: photo by Reuters/Stringer, 19 June 2016

#China #weather Clouds are seen above residential buildings in Shanghai #AFP Photo by @johaynz: image via Aurelia Bailly @AureliaBAILLY, 20 June 2016

PAKISTAN - Young Afghan refugee boys ride on a donkey cart in Islamabad. By Aamir Qureshi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 20 June 2016

PAKISTAN - An Afghan refugee girl makes a carpet at a small factory in Peshawar. By A Majeed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 20 June 2016

INDONESIA - A woman washes laundry while surrounded by silt and mud after flash floods in Kamulyan. By Rohmat Syarif #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 20 June 2016

NIGER - A boy walks on the dried banks of the Komadugu River near Diffa. By Issouf Sanogo #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 20 June 2016

SYRIA - Rescuers search the rubble of building following a gov. forces attack in Aleppo. By Thaer Mohammed#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 20 June 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Firefighters wash down a road at the site of Taliban suicide attack in Kabul. By @shahmarai #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 June 2016

INDONESIA - A Sri Lankan migrant washes himself near the beach in Lhoknga. By @mirroreye #AFP: image via LeCoMax @lecomaxnews, 20 June 2016

Syria A fighter from the #Manbij militia during an op. to try to retake the town, held by #ISIS By @Delilsouleman: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 20 June 2016

CHINA - Waste collectors ride their loaded tricycles on the streets in Shanghai. By @johaynz #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 June 2016

MYANMAR - Female Oriental-Magpie robin fight with Garden Lizard at the Hlawga National Park @AFPphoto @ye_aung_thu: image via YeAungThu @ye_aung_thu, 20 June 2016

Men pray as they wait to break the fast in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Shahzaib Akber / EPA, 20 June 2016

AFGHANISTAN - An elderly man reads the Koran during Ramadan at a mosque in Herat. By @Arefkarimi #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 June 2016

Israeli troops demolishing unlicensed sheds belonging to Palestinians near Yatta in the West Bank on Sunday: photo by Mussa Issa Qawasma/Reuters, 19 June 2016

Houses in the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank, with the Palestinian village of Al-Eizariya in the background, The Israeli government on Sunday approved about $20 million in additional financing for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank underlining its strengthened right-wing orientation and raising the ire of political opponents and the Palestinians.: photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters, 19 June 2016

Houses in the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank, with the Palestinian village of Al-Eizariya in the background, The Israeli government on Sunday approved about $20 million in additional financing for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank underlining its strengthened right-wing orientation and raising the ire of political opponents and the Palestinians.: photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters, 19 June 2016

An Iraqi girl who fled from of Islamic State violence, is seen during World Refugee Day celebrations at Al-salam refugee camp in Baghdad, Iraq, June 20, 2016.

An Iraqi girl who fled from of Islamic State violence, is seen during World Refugee Day celebrations at Al-salam refugee camp in Baghdad, Iraq: photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters, 20 June 20, 2016

A devotee performs a stunt during the Jal Yatra procession ahead of the annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession, which will be held on July 6, in Ahmedabad, India, June 20, 2016.

A devotee performs a stunt during the Jal Yatra procession ahead of the annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession July 6, in Ahmedabad, India: photo by Amit Dave/Reuters, 20 June 2016

A currency trader looks at monitors at the foreign exchange room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea: photo by Ahn Young-joon / AP, 20 June 2016

A man tries to make his way through a flooded area in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China: photo by Reuters, 20 June 2016

Men pray as they wait to break the fast in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Shahzaib Akber / EPA, 20 June 2016

World in focus — best photos for June 20, 2016

A woman checks her phone before morning prayers in the Old City of Arce: photo by Ammar Awad / Reuters, 20 June 2016

Chiquinho, a 12-year-old cat, enjoys a motorcycle ride around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP, 20 June 2016

plum tree: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 17 June 2016

Snow White greeted tourists at the $5.5 billion Disneyland in Shanghai, which was in its first week of operation. The company offered concessions to persuade the Chinese to allow it to build there.: photo by Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times, 16 June 2016

It rained on Tuesday, on the first day of races, at Ascot Racecourse in Britain, prompting this couple to share an umbrella: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 14 June 2016

Men’s clothing by Aitor Throup, which he called the New Object Research Collection, was displayed in London on Sunday: photo by Tom Jamieson for The New York Times, 12 June 2016

Wales supporter cheer during the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between England and Wales at the Bollaert stadium in Lens, France, Thursday, June 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Welsh supporters cheer during the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between England and Wales at the Bollaert stadium in Lens, France: photo by Michel Spingler/AP, 16 June 2016

This is what is called the brotherhood of man

World in focus — best photos for June 15, 2016

A woman stands outside a gate in Shanghai Disney Resort in China: photo by Aly Song / Reuters, 15 June 2016

An Israeli army soldier aims his laser sight at camera during a night raid as they move in to arrest Palestinian Abed Abu Eram, in Yatta, south of the city of Hebron: photo by Abed Al Hashlamoun / EPA, 15 June 2016

A Swiss fan waits for the start of the Euro 2016 Group A soccer match between Romania and Switzerland at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France: photo by Christophe Ena/AP, 15 June 2016

A Russian soldier patrols the roof of the ExpoForum Convention ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia: photo by Simon Dawson/Bloomberg, 15 June 2016

People participate during a training session on a river ahead of a local dragon boat competition in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China: photo by Reuters, 15 June 2016

A seagull in a flooded meadow after heavy rain near Zell, south-western Germany: photo by Thomas Warnack / dpa via AP, 15 June 2016

A man acting as a terrorist is attacked by a dog from the canine unit of a Brazilian military police battalion, during an instructional exercise with officers of an elite unit of the French police, ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, on Rio de Janeiro's subway: photo by Ricardo Moraes / Reuters, 10 June 2016

Marie Segretier, age 18, helps to wrangle young bulls and brand them, in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles, France. Traditional horsemen, known as ‘Gardians’, celebrate the day in memory of the Marquis de Baroncelli and show tourists how they work. Marie works with horses and is the only cowgirl in the Staintes-Maries-de-la-Mer area.: photo by Thomas Lohnes, 26 May 2016

A Western and Victorian crowned pigeon sits inside its enclosure at the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park: photo by Manan Vatsyayana / AFP, 19 May 2016

Janet Yellen arriving for a news conference on Wednesday in Washington: photo by Alex Wong, 15 June 2016

A child played Saturday in an art installation by Darya von Berner titled “Selfi” at the Matadero Madrid, a center for contemporary art in Madrid: photo by Javier Soriano/Agence France-Presse, 11 June 2016

World in focus — best photos for June 18, 2016

A passenger walks at Simon Bolivar international airport in Caracas. German airline Lufthansa suspended flights to crisis-hit Venezuela for an indefinite period owing to the economic crisis in the country.: photo by Federico Parra / AFP, 18 June 2016

VENEZUELA- A store remains closed after the country's food crisis erupted into looting in Cumana. By Manuel Trujillo: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 18 June 2016

Dionny Ramárez, 36, at the bakery in Boca de Uchire where he works. It was looted by hundreds of people on June 7. He said he grabbed the bakery’s panini press, one of its most valuable items, to keep it safe.: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 19 June 2016

A man searched for food last week at a grocery store in Cumaná that had been looted: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 19 June 2016

National police officers during the student demonstration in Caracas: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 19 June 2016

The demonstration in Caracas on June 9 turned violent after the national police set up blockades. Students threw rocks and molotov cocktails at the police, who responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and a water cannon: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 17 June 2016

Sunday was World Day Against Child Labor, an effort to publicize the plight of children forced into labor. Those hands belong to Imran, 11, who works at a utensil factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.: photo by A.M. Ahad/Associated Press, 12 June 2016

A Moroccan boy jumping the harbor’s security fence with the intention of sneaking into one of the ships that connect Melilla with continental Spain. Aug. 8, 2014.: photo by Guillem Valle/MeMo via the New York Times, 21 June 2016

The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre

of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden

machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

George Orwell (1903-1950): from 1984 (1949)

Displaced Iraqis who fled the government's operation against the Islamic State (IS) group in the city of Fallujah carry basic food items donated by a NGO called Preemptive Love Coalition in a camp in Khaldiyeh.

Displaced Iraqi families fleeing Fallujah amidst a dust storm: Mohammed Ali Haider/AFP, 21 June 2016

@Iraq #IslamicState #Fallujah displaced families daily life in a camp in Khaldiyeh #AFP Photo by Haidar Mohammed: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 21 June 2016

Displaced Iraqi families fleeing Fallujah amidst a dust storm: Mohammed Ali Haider/AFP, 21 June 2016

IRAQ - Displaced Iraqis carry food items donated by a NGO amidst a dust storm in camp in Khaldiyeh. By @haidar_h_m_a: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 21 June 2016

World in focus — best photos for June 21, 2016

Iraqi boys from Fallujah carry a sack of food items in a camp in Khaldiyeh: photo by Haidar Mohammed Ali / AF, 21 June 2016

Displaced Iraqis who fled Fallujah, in a camp in Habbaniyah. They fled starvation and Islamic State tyranny in Fallujah for the safety of displacement camps but thousands of Iraqi families still have nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep. "The government told us to leave our homes, so we did. The way they described it, we were going to find heaven," said Ayyub Yusef, a 32-year-old from Fallujah. "I don't regret leaving because we would have died. Here, we are alive, just about, but it's really just another kind of hell...": photo by Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP, 20 June 2016

Displaced Iraqis put up tents in a camp in Habbaniyah. One young woman was furious. "We had to live through the tyranny of Daesh (IS) and now it's just another injustice," she said, declining to give her name. "Five days here and nothing to eat, not even a bottle of water... This camp is just like the rest of Iraq, if you don't have connections, you will get nothing," she said. "Shame on them, there is no bathroom for the women... We have to go in the desert," said the woman, her eyes blazing with rage through the slit of her niqab face veil.: photo by Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP, 20 June 2016

Poland set off smoke bombs during the #EURO2016 football match Ukraine and Poland in Marseille. #AFPPhoto: image via Valery Hache @ValeryHache, 21 June 2016

Indian yoga practitioners during a mass yoga session to mark 2nd International Yoga Day in Chandigarh @afpphoto: image via Prakash Singh @PrakashAFP, 21 June 2016

World in focus — best photos for June 19, 2016

A girl tries to catch butterflies at ‘Lavender Fest’, held in a lavender field near Cobusca Noua village, 44km north-east from Chisinau, Moldova: photo by Dumitru Doru / EPA, 19 June 2016

Protesters hold placards that read: “Our anger went over our own limit” and “Remove all US bases!!” during a protest rally against the presence of US military bases on the southwestern island of Okinawa in Naha, Okinawa, following the rape and murder of a local woman in which a former US marine is a suspect: photo by Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP, 19 June 2016

Participants practising yoga during a full dress rehearsal ahead of World Yoga Day in Chandigarh, India: photo by Ajay Verma / Reuters, 19 June 2016

WEST BANK - Palestinian flags on rubble of house belonging to man who carried out knife attack. By Jaafar Ashtiyeh: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 21 June 2016

Young migrants trying to jump the wall between the port and the breakwater of Melilla. Aug. 9, 2014.: photo by José Colón/MeMo via the New York Times, 21 June 2016

Leidy Cordova, 37, with four of her five children at their home in Cumaná, Venezuela, last week. Their broken refrigerator held the only food in the house: a bag of corn flour and a bottle of vinegar.: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 19 June 2016

INDONESIA - Sri Lankan migrants look on from their temporary shelter along the beach in Lhoknga. By @mirrroreye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 21 June 2016

INDIA - An Hindu sadhu dances in a religious procession on the eve of Ambubachi festival in Guwahati. By @BoroBiju: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 21 June 2016

Motorists are pictured behind a glass during rush hours along Ayala Avenue in Manila's financial district Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines June 21, 2016. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

Motorists during rush hour along Ayala Avenue in Manila’s financial district Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines: photo by Erik de Castro/Reuters, 21 June 2016

A model walks down the catwalk as part of Giorgio Armani men’s Spring-Summer 2016-2017 collection in Milan: photo by. Luca Bruno / AP, 21 June 2016

epa05380528 A young aboriginal dancer plays in the sand during the Kenbi Native land claim ceremony, near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 21 June 2016. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is in Darwin to attend the deed handover ceremony settling Australia's oldest Aboriginal land rights claim. EPA/LUKAS COCH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

A young aboriginal dancer plays in the sand during the Kenbi Native land claim ceremony, near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is in Darwin to attend the deed handover ceremony settling Australia’s oldest Aboriginal land rights claim: photo by Lukas Coch/EPA, 20 Jne 2016

An emu runs to escape an approaching wildfire as it burns near Potrero, California, U.S. June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RTX2H8ZI

An emu runs to escape an approaching wildfire as it burns near Potrero, California: photo by Mike Blake/Reuters 21 June 2016

A DC-10 air tanker drops fire retardant in Duarte, California: photo by Robyn Beck / AFP, 21 June 2016

Revellers celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southern England, Britain June 21, 2016. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Revellers celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southern England, Britain: photo by Kieran Doherty/Reuters, 21 June 2016

Revellers celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge in England: photo by Neil Munns / EPA, 21 June 2016

People celebrate the summer solstice in Kumanovo, Macedonia: photo by Ognen Teofilvovski / Reuters, 21 June 2016

A bird sitting on a branch of a tree in front of a Strawberry Moon in Jacobsdorf near Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Germany: photo byPatrick Pleul / EPA, 21 June 2016

A group of Moroccan boys walking along the breakwater in the Melilla harbor. Jan. 17, 2014.: photo by José Colón/MeMo via the New York Times, 21 June 2016

At a protest in downtown Caracas on June 9, a student held a sign that said, “Studying while hungry does not get results” in Spanish.: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 19 June 2016

Spanish police officers arresting a group of Moroccan youths at the breakwater of Melilla’s harbor. Jan. 13, 2014.: photo by José Colón/MeMo via the New York Times, 21 June 2016

Julian Assange's cat looks out of the Ecuadorian embassy as the Wikileaks founder begins his fifth year there: image via AFP London @afplondon, 20 June 2016

Memorial text that was written into a wall while the concrete was still wet. The text on the right reads, “Unidentified immigrant.” Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. 2004.: photo by José Colón/MeMo via the New York Times, 21 June 2016

Breathe (Richmond, California): photo by efo, 6 April 2014

#blackberry #mobile #blackandwhite #grainy #streetphotography #newark #nj #aids | by StrangeGoodness

#blackberry #mobile #blackandwhite #grainy streetphotography #newark #nj #aids: photo by J Perez, 6 July 2015

Untitled: photo by r chorneau, 1 June 2016

ITALY - A boy rests on concrete blocks near the small port of Ginostra on the island of Stromboli. By @GABRIELBOUYS: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPPhoto, 22 June 2016

Josephine Miles: King

Skull with Burning Cigarette: Vincent van Gogh, Winter 1885/86, Antwerp, oil on canvas, 32 x 25 cm (Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam)

I walked along the river path, the river
I never lived beside,
And met there, hook and line, king of that kingdom

I would not recognize.

He was the golden branch of Eliot, of

Those wasteland parties where I had to play

Tiresias, and he was a king

Whom I did not believe.

Laius nor any man's killed by his son

Unless he wills it, so I said

To this old bird where he sat. Why let come riding

The handsomest of your brood to do you in?

And he wept, Because it is him or me --

Should he not survive me, he survives not

All that I was: alcoholic

At forty, cheat at forty-five,

Coward at fifty, so will he be

Over again in sequence, while I sit

Mourning myself in him. Tell him to hurry.

This was the waste land as it dawns upon me

To see it was my friend sat by the river

Crouching and fishing in his father's form.

Josephine Miles (1911-1985): King, from Poetry, August 1966

A festivalgoer carrying a tent at the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Glastonbury. Picture date: Wednesday June 22, 2016

A festivalgoer carries a tent at the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset: photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire, 22 June 2016

A man walks on a temporary bamboo bridge during heavy rains on the banks of river Ganga in Allahabad, India

A man walks on a temporary bamboo bridge during heavy rains on the banks of river Ganges in Allahabad, India: photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters, 22 June 2016

North Koreans push their bicycles past giant portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the end of a work day on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in Wonsan, North Korea.

North Koreans push their bicycles past giant portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the end of a work day: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 22 June 2016

World in focus — best photos for June 22, 2016

Parolees paint over gang-related graffiti in a neighbourhood of Soyapango, El Salvador: photo by. Jose Cabezas / Reuters, 22 June 2016

Jun 21, 2016; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Kevin Pillar (11) catches a fly ball for an out during the fourth inning in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sport

Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Kevin Pillar (11) catches a fly ball for an out during the fourth inning in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Rogers Centre, Toronto: photo by Nick Turchiaro/Reuters, 22 June 2016

Toronto Blue Jays centre fielder Kevin Pillar makes a diving catch on a hit by Arizona Diamondbacks left fielder Peter O’Brien, during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Toronto.: photo by Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press via AP, 22 June 2016

Lightning flashes during a thunderstorm over Havana, Cuba June 21, 2016. REUTERS/Enrique de la Osa

Lightning flashes during a thunderstorm over Havana, Cuba: photo by Enrique de la Osa/Reuters 22 June 2016

A Palestinian girl looks on during the 15th day of the holy month of Ramadan in the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 21 June 2016. Most children in the Gaza Strip learn the Quran in the mosques during the holy month of Ramadan every year.: photo by Mohammed Saber / EPA, 22 June 2016

epa05382771 Protesters take to the streets in support to the extension of acting President Jovelerme Privert's term, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 21 June 2016. The Haitian Parliament has not reached an agreement on the extension of acting President of Haiti Jocelerme Privert's term, which started in February pending a general election in no more than 120 days, nor the appointing of another interim leader, as hundreds of people took the streets supporting Privert. EPA/BAHARE KHODABANDE

Protesters take to the streets in support of the extension of acting President Jovelerme Privert’s term, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: photo by Bahare Khodabande/EPA, 22 June 2016

Supporters of presidential candidate Maryse Narcisse hold up human skulls and bones along with a booklet with the photo of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide during a voodoo ceremony before the start of a demonstration in support of interim president Jocelerme Privert, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on June 21, 2016. The demonstrators are demanding an extension of Mr Privert’s expired mandate: photo by Dieu Nalio Chery / Associated Press, 22 June 2016

Dallas, TX -- March 2015: photo by Gary Gumanow, 27 May 2016

Tobacco (Los Angeles, California): photo by michaelj1998, 10 June 2016

Josephine Miles: Lucifer Alone

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (detail): Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562, oil on oak (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels)

One rat across the floor and quick to floor's a breeze,
But two a whisper of a human tongue.
One is a breath, two voice;
And one a dream, but more are dreamed too long.

Two are the portent which we may believe at length,
And two the tribe we recognize as true.
Two are the total, they saying and they saying,
So we must ponder what we are to do.

For every scuttle of motion in the corner of the eye
Some thought of thought is asked in us indeed,
But of two, more: there we have likeness moving,
And there knowledge therefore, and therefore creed.

Josephine Miles (1911-1985): Lucifer Alone, 1969, from Collected Poems 1930-1983

Fall of Lucifer (fragment): Spinello Aretino, 1408-10, fresco, transferred to canvas, 116 x 170 cm (National Gallery, London)

An American fan readies for a 2016 Copa America Centenario semi-final match between Argentina and the United States at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.: photo by Scott Halleran/AFP, 22 June 2016

New York, NY -- July 2015: photo by Gary Gumanow, 27 May 2016

Supporters of the Leave campaign watched the results of Thursday’s referendum in central London: photo by Stefan Rousseau/Press Association, via Associated Press, 24 June 2016

Josephine Miles: So Graven

Simplicity so graven hurts the sense.

The monumental and the simple break
And the great tablets shatter down in deed.

Every year the quick particular jig

Of unresolved event moves in the mind,

And there's the trick simplicity has to win.

JosephineMiles (1911-1985): So Graven, 1946, from Collected Poems 1930-83

Supporters of the Leave campaign watched the results of Thursday’s referendum in central London: photo by Stefan Rousseau/Press Association, via Associated Press, 24 June 2016

Feargazm (Minneapolis): photo by Andrew Murr, 12 June 2016

A referendum results party on Thursday at the Lexington pub in north London: photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times, 23 June 2016

Josephine Miles: Made Shine

This face had no use for light, took none of it,
Grew cavernous against stars, bore into noon
A dark of midnight by its own resources.

Yet where it lay in sleep, where the pillows held it
With the blind plaster over it and the four walls
Keeping the night carefully, it was undone.

Sixty-watt light, squared to a window frame,
Across a well of air, across wind and window
Leaped and made shine the dark face in its sleep.

Josephine Miles (1911-1985): Made Shine, 1939, from Collected Poems 1930-83

A referendum results party on Thursday at the Lexington pub in north London: photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times, 23 June 2016

ITALY - The moon rises behind the volcano Stromboli as it spews lava. By @GABRIELBOUYS #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2016

World in focus — best photos for June 23, 2016

Solar Impulse 2, piloted by Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard, is pictured before landing at San Pablo airport in Seville, southern Spain: photo by Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters, 23 June 2016

COLOMBIA - A graffiti with a sentence that reads "Peace for the people" in Cali. By @LuisRobayo #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2016

AFGHANISTAN - A burqa-clad woman buys fruit at a busy market during the Ramadan in Herat. By @Arefkarimi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2016

Afghan refugees wait at the UNHCR registration centre in Pakistan's Peshawar, by @AFPphoto's A Majeed: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 23 June 2016

Trump is persisting with his attack on Muslims because it has proven be his strongest issue: image via Reuters Opinion @ReutersOpinion, 23 June 2016

2016-351 (West Oakland, California): photo by biosfear, June 2016

2016-359 (West Oakland, California): photo by biosfear, 11 June 2016

2016-358 (West Oakland, California): photo by biosfear, 11 June 2016

2016-368 (Berkeley, California): photo by biosfear, June 2016

Door and windows (East Los Angeles): photo by Andrew Murr, 22 June 2016

Shallow. "I'm really shallow at heart." (Los Angeles): photo by Andrew Murr, 19 June 2016

Jeff Lawson, (C) Founder, CEO, & Chairman of Communications software provider Twilio Inc., takes a selfie photo during his company’s IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City: photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters, 23 June 2016

A cycle rickshaw puller sleeps by the roadside in Ajmer, in the desert state of Rajasthan, India: photo by Himanshu Sharma/Reuters, 23 June 2016

Displaced children, who fled from Islamic State violence, and the needy receive free food distributed during the fasting month of Ramadan at a restaurant in Baghdad: photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters, 23 June 2016

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Displaced children, who fled from Islamic State violence, and the needy receive free food distributed during the fasting month of Ramadan at a restaurant in Baghdad: photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters, 23 June 2016

Indian pedestrians carry a dog as they make their way past others sheltering in a pavilion during a heavy monsoon rain downpour in Shimla on June 22, 2016. At least 93 people have been struck by lightning and killed in India over the past two days, disaster management officials said, as annual monsoon rains swept the country. Lightning strikes are relatively common in India during the June-October monsoon, which hit the southern coast earlier this month, but this week's toll is particularly high. / AFP PHOTO / STRSTR/AFP/Getty Images

Indian pedestrians carry a dog as they make their way past others sheltering in a pavilion during a heavy monsoon rain downpour in Shimla, India: photo by AFP, 23 June 2016

Pakistanis wade through flood water in Lahore: photo by Arif Ali / AFP, 23 June 2016

Nepali women cry over the coffins of relatives who were killed when a suicide bomber struck a minibus in Kabul: photo by Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters, 23 June 2016

A woman from Falluja sits in the half-built structure she and her four children call home at a camp in Amiriyat Falluja, a government-held city in Anbar Province: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 22 June 2016

A member of the Iraqi security forces in Falluja made his midday prayers near the front lines: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 22 June 2016

The Iraqi counterterrorism forces moved through the heavily damaged Shuhada neighborhood of Falluja: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 22 June 2016

A building that collapsed from heavy bombardment in the Shuhada neighborhood of Falluja. Dust being whipped up adds to the apocalyptic feel in some parts of the city.: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 22 June 2016

The federal police fired artillery toward Islamic State-held areas of Falluja. Many ISIS fighters fled once it became clear that the loose, pro-government alliance of soldiers, policemen, Shiite militiamen and Sunni fighters was winning.: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 23 June 2016

Iraqis who were displaced by fighting in Anbar Province wait in the midday heat for a United Nations aid delivery at a camp in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad Province on Monday: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 22 June 2016

AFGHANISTAN - Boys study the Koran during Islamic holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Jalalabad. By @NoorulllahShirz: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

Afghan boys study the Quran at a mosque in Jalalabad: photo by Nootullah Shirzada / AFP, 23 June 2016

Deer stags with growing, velvet covered antlers are seen in a forest in Hungary: photo by Attila Kovacs / EPA, 23 June 2016

Kyrgyz boy Azat Shajbyrov reacts as a baby falcon swoops over his head: photo by Igor Kovalenko / EPA, 23 June 2016

Chinese enthusiasts practicing yoga at Futian sports park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province: photo by(AFP, 21 June 2016

Muslim students practice yoga at the N H English Academy in Mira Road, Mumbai, India, on June 20. The United Nations has declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga after they adopted a resolution proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.: photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA, 20 June 2016

Hundreds of yoga lovers practice yoga on the world's largest glass and titanium saucer-shape sighting platform in a scenic zone in Beijing, China: photo by Lao Cai/EPA, 20 June 2016

Participants perform yoga during International Day of Yoga in New Delhi, India: photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters, 21 June 2016

Indian schoolchildren participate in a yoga session at a school in Chennai on June 20, the eve of International Day of Yoga. Some 4001 schoolchildren participated in the demonstration.: photo by Arun Sankar/AFP, 20 June 2016

World in focus – best photos for June 24, 2016

Brewster Guin gets bucked off of Social Call during the second performance of the West of the Pecos Rodeo at the Buck Jackson Arena in Pecos, Texas: photo by Edyta Blaszczyk / Odessa American / AP, 24 June 2016

An awful lot they are

These descendants of Old Hrothgar

I know them, I lived among them as a boy

And I knew their father, Old Edgethrow

As an ageing boy
Always feared everything foreign
Devoted to Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, cousin to Scylding kings

In pubs recited Roman history while affecting mechanical nazi salute

Tubercular, the Scylding king's weakling sons

The Code of the West was so much bloody nonsense

All it ever was was Old Hrothgar talking your ear off

Trying to bum five bucks steal your wife or girlfriend

It never believed a word it said

This was its innocence

Behind its silken sad uncertain rustling curtains you heard it

The music, still and notwithstanding

The hibbing of those vipern lorke that quann

You'd never want to dream of having a drink with it

A villager, donning capes mostly of dried banana leaves and covered in mud, attends a mass during the ‘Taong Putik’ or ‘mud people’ festival in an annual ritual to venerate their patron saint, John the Baptist, at Bibiclat, Aliaga township, Nueva Ecija province in northern Philippines: photo by Bullit Marquez / AP, 24 June 2016

A young woman wades into the shallow waters of the Brombach Lake near Pleinfeld, Bavaria state, Germany, as the sun sets.: photo by Daniel Karmann / EPA, 24 June 2016

A bus carries commuters as it travels over Waterloo Bridge in London, Britain: photo by Toby Melville / Reuters, 24 June 2016

Emilio Bonifacio of the Atlanta Braves, centre left, is tagged out by New York Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud, centre right, during their baseball game: photo by John Bazemore / AP, 24 June 2016

A farmer harvests wheat in a field at night, fearing shelling in daylight, in the rebel held besieged town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 24 June 2016

People pass by the office of the representation of the European Commission in Germany in Berlin on June 24, 2016. Britain has voted to break out of the European Union, striking a thunderous blow against the bloc and spreading panic through world markets on June 24 as sterling collapsed to a 31-year low. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALLJOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images

People pass by the office of the representation of the European Commission in Germany in Berlin: photo by John Macdougall/AFP, 24 June 2016

Workers move tires from a warehouse after a fire broke out at an industrial zone in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters 24 June 2016

Police officers on horseback wearing angel wings at the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Glastonbury. Picture date: Friday June 24, 2016. Photo credit should read: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Police officers on horseback wearing angel wings at the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset: photo by Ben Birchall/PA, 24 June 2016

A Palestinian passes through an opening in the Israeli barrier fence as he attempts to make his way to attend the third Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque

Palestinian passes through an opening in the Israeli barrier fence as he attempts to make his way to attend the third Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque, near Bethlehem: photo by Mussa Qawasma/Reuters, 24 June 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives at his Turnberry golf course, in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives at his Turnberry golf course, in Turnberry, Scotland Britain: photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters, 24 June 2016

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks after Britain voted to leave the European Union, outside Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron announces his resignation after Britain voted to leave the European Union, outside Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain: photo by Phil Noble/Reuters, 24 June 2016

Larry the Downing Street cat walks outside No 10 Downing Street in central London. Britain has voted to break out of the European Union, striking a thunderous blow against the bloc and spreading panic through world markets Friday as sterling collapsed to a 31-year low: photo by Odd Anderson/AFP. 24 June 2016

Leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, celebrates victory in the EU Referendum at the leave.eu party in Milbank, London.

Nigel Farage, Leader of the UK Independence Party celebrates the EU Referendum at the Leave.EU party in Milbank, London: photo by Charlie Bibby/FT, 24 June 2016

Dawn breaks behind the Houses of Parliament and the statue of Winston Churchill in Westminster, London, Britain: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 24 June 2016

epa05386225 Police officers stand guard outside the courthouse before a verdict was issued in the trial of police officer Caesar Goodson, one of six Baltimore police officers charged over the death of Freddie Gray, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 23 June 2016. A judge issued a verdict of not-guilty in all accounts in the trial of Goodson. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

Police officers stand guard outside the courthouse before a verdict was issued in the trial of police officer Caesar Goodson, one of six Baltimore police officers charged over the death of Freddie Gray, in Baltimore, Maryland. A judge issued a verdict of not-guilty in all accounts in the trial of Goodson.: photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA, 23 June 2016

Reins on Elmo! Costumed characters and desnudas in Times Square had to begin observing restrictions on where they could walk on Tuesday, as a new law limited them to areas painted teal: photo by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times, 21 June 2016

A model showed spring and summer fashion looks for 2017 at the Moncler Gamme Bleu fashion show in Milan this week.: photo by Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times, 24 June 2016

Young men play basketball at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Fights among visitors and gunfire have led the police to at times close Pier 2, where the courts sit. The closings and complaints by people living nearby have pitted the mainly black players against mainly white neighbors in well-off Brooklyn Heights.: photo by Alex Wroblewski for The New York Times, 24 June 2016

Muslim women at afternoon prayers during Ramadan in Srinagar, Kashmir, on Thursday: photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters, 23 June 2016

Members of the Iraq Emergency Response Brigade rest between operations in Falluja, Iraq, on Sunday. Many grim reminders of rule by Islamic State dot the city: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 19 June 2016

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Members of the Iraq Emergency Response Brigade rest between operations in Falluja, Iraq, on Sunday. Many grim reminders of rule by Islamic State dot the city: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 19 June 2016

Palestinian laborers, working with smugglers, crossed into Israel recently near the village of Ramadin in the West Bank: photo by Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times, 24 June 2016

A man worked at a bakery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, providing bread for impoverished families during Ramadan, which began June 5: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/Agence France-Presse, 19 June 2016

The family of Araselis Rodriguez and Nestor Daniel Reina gathered outside their home in Cumaná, Venezuela, hungry and unable to buy food as the nation’s economy collapses: photo by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times, 22 June 2016

Turkish police officers fire tear gas to disperse people protesting a violent attack on customers at a record store in Istanbul.: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 18 June 2016

Turkish police officers fire tear gas to disperse people protesting a violent attack on customers at a record store in Istanbul: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 18 June 2016

Support our troops

Valentino Spring 2017 "War" collection: photo by Gio Staiano/Nowfashion, 24 June 2016

When the sun sets on the Code of the West the beasts emerge from the obscure forests of the Scylding kings

Oswald Spengler:Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West), first edition cover: C.H. Beck Verlag, München, 1922 (image by Perceval, 2005)

Dame Helen Mirren has a strong message for drunk drinkers in @budweiser #SuperBowl commercial: Get Stonkin', Bros!: image via InStyle @InStyle, 2 February 2016

Incredible evening at #GenesisPrize2016. Incomparable #HelenMirren hosts: image via Laura Ben-David @LauraBenDavid, 23 June 2016

One reason the City, London’s financial district, shuddered on Friday is that it is a hub for trading in euro-denominated securities, activity that may now shift to rivals like Frankfurt and Paris: photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times, 24 June 2016

European leaders acknowledged that the British vote would further limit their ability to move forward with economic and political integration, a process that had all but stalled anyway. “Today marks a turning point for Europe,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said. “It is a turning point for the European unification process.”: photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters, 24 June 2016

The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. The stunning turn of events was accompanied by a plunge in the financial markets, with the value of the British pound and stock prices plummeting.: photo by Richard Drew/Associated Press, 24 June 2016

Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the campaign to remain in the bloc, appears in front of 10 Downing Street on Friday morning to announce that he plans to step down by October, saying the country deserved a leader committed to carrying out the will of the people: photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times, 24 January 2016

A referendum results party on Thursday evening at a pub in London. By Friday morning, it was clear that Britain has voted to leave the European Union, a historic decision sure to reshape the nation’s place in the world, rattle the Continent and rock political establishments throughout the West.: photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times, 23 June 2016

The sun rising over London on Friday. Despite opinion polls before the referendum that showed either side in a position to win, the outcome stunned much of Britain, Europe and the trans-Atlantic alliance, highlighting the power of anti-elite, populist and nationalist sentiment at a time of economic and cultural dislocation.: photo by Hannah Mckay/European Pressphoto Agency, 24 June 2016

Hundreds of thousands people have fled the Middle East risking their lives along the way. Check @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 28 January 2016

President Xi Jinping of China welcomed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for a brief state visit in Beijing on Saturday: photo by Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press, 25 June 2016

The Dissolution of The New World Order

The new world order and the old refusal of the stubborn human to submit to order
Violently collide, and out of this impact comes a new new

World order, and then a new complication of the human

Occurs, and there is another violent collision, and these complications

And collisions multiply expo -- what was that word again, exponentially?

Irresolute. Inconclusive. Ongoing. Objectionable. Insane

New world orders keep popping up, impossibly unfurling, proliferating in explosive

Nodes of new disorder spreading across the world display screen and out

Come the armor, the weaponry, the festival, the holiday declared

In honor of the latest new world order even before it has emerged, revealing

The difficult truth, that all new world orders were always temporary, provisional

Acts of wishful thinking on the part of the stubborn human, so that
The stubborn human no longer seeks resolution in a new world order, until it does
And no longer collides violently with its own broken new world orders, until it does.

Britain’s decision to leave the bloc dominated newspaper front pages in Athens on Saturday.: photo by Simela Pantzartzi/European Pressphoto Agency, 25 June 2016

LEBANON - A cardboard crucifix sits on a hill at the Monastery of the Cross in Jal el-Dib. By @Patrick_Baz#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

Here's why, in the age of video, still images will always have their place. Pic by Ben Cawthra: image via Gordon Rayner @gordonrayner, 24 June 2016

Withdrawing from the European Union is a lengthy process that Mr. Cameron will largely leave to his successor. It will mean pulling out from the world’s largest trading zone, with 508 million residents, including the 65 million people of Britain, and a commitment to the free movement of labor, capital, goods and services.: photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times, 24 June 2016

Demonstrators are sprayed with a police water cannon during clashes that erupted at the end of a education reform march in Santiago, Chile. Students are demonstrating to demand free access to school for all ages, including university level.: photo by Esteban Felix / AP, 23 June 2016

A horse rears in the crowd during the traditional San Juan, or Saint John, festival in the town of Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca, on the eve of Saint John's day on June 23, 2016. During the festival, Minorcan race horses gallop and prance on their hind legs through the streets of Ciutadella to honor of the town's patron saint. As the caixers, or horse riders, ride together in a parade, spectators attempt to pat the horses' chests to get good luck.: photo by Jaime Reina / AFP, 23 June 2016

A Syrian refugee from Aleppo holding her son's hand walks past an advertising banner used as a makeshift tent in a Syrian refugee camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley: photo by Patrick Baz / AFP, 20 June 2016

Steam rises from a scrum during the Super Rugby Exhibition match between the Rebels and the Hurricanes at Harlequins Rugby Club in Melbourne, Australia.: photo by Scott Barbour, 23 June 2016

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer Constantino Zarate tries to herd an emu off the highway as a wildfire continues to burn north of the U.S. Mexico border near Potrero, California: photo by Mike Blake / Reuters, 21 June 2016

A woman sits with her belongings in front of the rubble of her destroyed houses after a tornado in Funing, in Yancheng, in China's Jiangsu province on June 24, 2016. Extreme weather, including hailstorms, heavy rain and a tornado, killed 78 and injured dozens in China's eastern Jiangsu province, the official Xinhua news agency reported on June 23.

A woman sits with her belongings in front of the rubble of her destroyed houses after a tornado in Funing, in Yancheng, in China’s Jiangsu province today: photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP, 24 June 2016

CHINA - A woman sits with her belongings in front of the rubble of her houses after a tornado in Funing. By @johaynz: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

COLOMBIA - Colombians celebrate in Medellin after the ceasefire between the Gov. and FARC guerrillas. By @RAULARBOLEDA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

PHILIPPINES - The religious festival in honor of St. John the Baptist (mud people festival) in Aliaga. By Ted Aljibe: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

SYRIA - Syrian girls ride a horse and carriage carrying a water tank near Manbij. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

WEST BANK - Palestinians walk through an Israeli checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. By Musa Al-Shaer #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

MYANMAR - Myanmar Buddhists ransack mosque as religious violence flares in Thuye Tha Mein. By @ye_aung_thu #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

SYRIA - US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters sit in vehicle as they advance into IS bastion of Manbij. By @DelilSouleiman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

UKRAINE- A resident of Donetsk looks through a hole into a building after a night shelling. By Aleksey Filippov #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

WEST BANK - Clashes against expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in Kfar Qaddum. By Jaafar Ashtiyeh #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

FRANCE - Migrants walk past a graffiti reading "London my dream" at the "Jungle" camp in Calais. By Philippe Huguen: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 June 2016

El Brexit reaviva el debate sobre los campamentos de migrantes de Calais #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @AFPespanol, 25 June 2016

INDIA - A kashmiri protestor holds stones in his hand during clashes in downtown Srinagar. By @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2016

A panoramic view of the city of La Paz pictured from El Alto, Bolivia: photo by David Mercado / Reuters, 21 June 2016

A King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) chick, born after its egg was artificially incubated for 58 days, is fed by a volunteer at Santa Fe Zoo in Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia: photo by Raul Arboleda / AFP, 17 June 2016

Members of Mexican Federal Police clash with teachers holding a protest against an education reform and the arrest of two of their leaders, in Oaxaca State. At least three people were killed and dozens injured when police clashed with thousands of teachers blocking roads in a protest in southern Mexico on Sunday, leaving some officers with bullet wounds.: photo by AFP, 19 June 2016

Seven-year-old female panda Huan-Huan, before undergoing an ultrasound test on June 23, 2016, at the zoological park of Beauval in Saint-Aignan, France, after showing signs of pregnancy over the past few weeks.: photo by Guillaume Souvant / AFP, 23 June 2016

A municipal worker covers graffiti with gray paint before a demonstration near the headquarters of the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey stepped up its crackdown on the media Monday, detaining and charging the local representative of international rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two intellectuals for “terrorist propaganda.” The RSF representative Erol Onderoglu, the journalist Ahmet Nesin, and the rights activist and academic Sebnem Korur Fincanci were charged for taking part in a campaign of solidarity with the newspaper in May.: photo by Ozan Kose / AFP, 21 June 2016

Untitled: photo by elinorfo, 7 June 2016

Franz Kafka:Resolutions

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Eyes (Jewgienij Bal): photo by Anna Bal, 2005

To lift yourself out of a miserable mood, even if you have to do it by strength of will, should be easy. I force myself out of my chair, stride around the table, exercise my head and neck, make my eyes sparkle, tighten the muscles around them. Defy my own feelings, welcome A. enthusiastically supposing he comes to see me, amiably tolerate B. in my room, swallow all that is said at C.'s, whatever pain and trouble it may cost me, in long draughts.

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.

So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, and, if you feel that you are being carried away, not to let yourself be lured into taking a single unnecessary step, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, in short, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you, that is, to enlarge the final peace of the graveyard and let nothing survive save that.

A characteristic movement in such a condition is to run your little finger along your eyebrows.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924): Resolutions(Entschlüsse), written between 1904 and 1912, from Betrachtung (Meditation), 1913, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir in The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, 1948

Untitled [found photo]: image by elinor, 24June 2016

The awful wait (Chairvllle, Southampton, New Jersey): photo by efo, 18 June 2016

Tree (Richmond, California): photo by efo, 19 June 2016

A characteristic movement in such a condition is to run your little finger along your eyebrows

Tree (Richmond, California): photo by efo, 19 June 2016

A380 Variation1 | by Fotografik33 - www.fotografik33.com

Airbus A380 Variation 1 [over Dugny, Ile-de-France]: photo by Adrien Sifre, 19 June 2013

On the way to Bamberg [Bavaria]: photo by Bill Barrber, 22 August 2007

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Staudammkrone dam at Lüner Lake, Austria: photo by Friedrich Böhringer, 2010

Surgery, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon. Architect: Hermann Distel. Conception of project: 1938. Period of construction: 1940-1953. Opening: 1954: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950(?)-1953 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)

Josephine Miles: Deed

As George Washington hacked at his cherry tree,
Joseph said to him
This is the tree that fed Mary
When she lingered by the way.

As George Washington polished his bright blade,
Joseph told him
This cherry tree
Bent down and nourished the mother and her babe.

As George Washington felled the cherry tree,
Voices of root and stem
Cried out to him
In heavenly accents, but he heard not what they had to say.

Rather, he was making
A clearing in the wilderness,
A subtle discrimination
Of church and state,

By which his little hatchet
Harvested a continental
Bumper crop for Mary
Of natural corn.

Josephine Miles (1911-1985): Deed, from Collected Poems 1930-1983

Oregon City: photo by Austin Granger, 6 June 2016

Statsakten (Celebration of Act of State at Akershus, marking transition to German supremacy in Norway under the national government of Vidkun Quisling): photographer unknown, 1 February 1942(National Archives of Norway)

Oregon Coast: photo by Austin Granger, 14 June 2016

Hospital of Santa Maria, Lisbon. Architect: Hermann Distel. Conception of project: 1938. Period of construction: 1940-1953. Opening: 1954: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950(?)-1953 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)

Hug Point, Oregon Coast | by austin granger

Hug Point, Oregon Coast: photo by Austin Granger, 16 June 2016

Dancing Bear, State Fair of Texas: photo by Lynn Lennon, 1985 (Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library)

Grande Hotel da Figueira da Foz, Portugal. Architect: Inácio Peres Fernandes. Opened 1953: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950s (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)

During the forced evacuation of Finnmark, Byåsen school was used to house evacuees and as a temporary replacement hospital: photo by Ukjent, c. August 1944 (Municipal Archives of Trondheim)

Cross, Silver Star Mountain, Washington | by austin granger

Cross, Silver Star Mountain, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 16 June 2016

This is the tree that fed Mary

Wenche Myhre. Tar førerkort og kjøper ny MG "midget": photo by Lasse Klæboe, February 1965 (National Archives of Norway)

Oregon City: photo by Austin Granger, 1 June 2016

Members of the NSB (Dutch national socialist party) and shaven 'kraut girls' are being brought in by members of the Dutch Resistance. Deventer, The Netherlands: photo by Willem van de Poll, 11 April 1945 (Anefo photo collection / Nationaal Archief)

Oregon City: photo by Austin Granger, 7 June 2016

During the forced evacuation of Finnmark, Byåsen school is used to house evacuees and as a temporary replacement hospital: photo by Ukjent, c. August 1944 (Municipal Archives of Trondheim)

shinjuku, tokyo: photo by wire_paladinSF, 10 April 2014

Vidkun Quisling, Joseph Terboven, German officers and Rikshirden. In connection with Act of State: photo by Lasse Klæboe, 1 February 1942 (National Archives of Norway)

Oregon City: photo by Austin Granger, 7 June 2016

Crowd in Rua do Carmo, Lisbon: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 25 April 1974 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)

Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 31 May 2016

State Fair

Three reported stabbings by the Nazis to Antifascists in #Sacramento #NoNazisinSac: image via Bradley Allen @BradleySA, 27 June 2016

7 stabbed at neo-Nazi event outside Capitol in Sacramento: Jazmine Ulloa,John Myers, Emily Alpert Reyes and Victoria Kim, The Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2016

The white nationalists and skinheads, clad in black, began to arrive a little before noon Sunday for their planned march on the state Capitol grounds. They were met by hundreds of protesters toting signs that denounced “Nazi scum".

"Counter protestors" in place already for a protest at noon put on by alleged "Nazis" coming to the Capitol @ABC10: image via Frances Wang

Violence began almost immediately, authorities and witnesses said, and by the time the clashes ended 20 minutes later, at least seven people had been stabbed, nine were hospitalized and many more suffered bruises, scrapes and cuts.

Horrifying...Blood spatters all over the ground. Police trying to control crowds. @ABC10: image via Frances Wang @ABC10Frances, 27 June 2016

"They attacked each other without hesitation," said counter-protester Chandra Zafra, 50, a member of the Mexica Movement nonprofit. "It was a war zone."

Many of the counter-protestors don't want their faces shown. Here's one of them getting medical attention @ABC10: image via Frances Wang @ABC10Frances, 27 June 2016

For much of the afternoon, the historic domed Capitol was locked down, with staffers and tourists inside. Police swarmed the park-like grounds, but by Sunday evening there had still been no arrests.

#BREAKING Sac Fire just confirmed multiple people have been stabbed at the Capitol protest. @ABC10: image via Frances Wang @ABC10Frances, 27 June 2016 Sacramento, CA

The Sacramento stabbings came several months after another violent confrontation between members of a Ku Klux Klan group and counter-protesters at an Anaheim park.

Counter-protester Yvette Felarca, 46, said the marchers had been driven away and had not been able to recruit members.

These nazis made it to the capital steps and were attacked with sticks and concrete. #nonazisinsac: image via Dave Id @Daveid, 27 June 2016

Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, said he had long warned that the Capitol rally could erupt into violence. It had been planned for weeks, giving both sides plenty of time to organize.

Levin said such violence ultimately can play into the message of white supremacists who claim they are “under siege.”

Burning Confederate flag stolen from nazis. Flashbang or loud firework goes off on north side. #nonazisinsac: image via Dave Id @Daveid, 27 June 2016

“Make no mistake -- I think the hatemongers wanted to have this violence take place,” Levin said. “And some of the anti-fascists very much wanted to have a violent confrontation.”

The Traditionalist Worker Party, known as a white nationalist group, said on its website that it had planned the Sunday event in conjunction with the Golden State Skinheads “to make a statement about the precarious situation our race is in” after “brutal assaults” at Donald Trump events in California.

This man telling the crowd he has the "right to free speech" - counter protestors yell back "Nazi!" @ABC10: image via Frances Wang @ABC10Frances, 27 June 2016

Its vice chairman, Matt Parrott, blamed “leftist radicals” for instigating the violence Sunday. Videos and photos of the rally posted on social media showed the white nationalists vastly outnumbered by protesters from anti-fascist groups.

“We stood our ground. We will be back,” Traditionalist Worker Party Chairman Matthew Heimbach, who was not at the rally, said in a phone interview.

The anti-fascist organization Antifa Sacramento, which had been promoting a "Shut Down Nazi Rally" event on its website, did not respond to requests for comment.

Heard that police let some nazis run into capital building for protection. Concrete ashtray broken for attack. #nonazisinsac: image via Dave Id @Daveid, 27 June 2016

"The Nazis are the violent ones -- we are acting in self-defense," said Felarca, who sustained a bloody blow to the head. "We need to take them head on, confront them, but with as many people as possible."

The Traditionalist Worker Party had a permit to hold a rally at noon, said George Granada, public information officer for the California Highway Patrol’s Capitol Protection Section, which has jurisdiction over the Capitol grounds.

Police on top of Capitol. @ABC10: image via Frances Wang @ABC10Frances, 27 June 2016 Sacramento, CA

The violence erupted around 11:45 a.m., when word spread that roughly 30 people had shown up. Counter-protesters swarmed toward them and a fight immediately broke out, Granada said.

One person was stabbed within minutes, Granada said. Other stabbings occurred elsewhere on the grounds shortly thereafter. Fire and public safety officials said it was not immediately clear which groups the stabbing victims belonged to.

Anti-Fascist counter-protester stabbed by nazi/white nationalist protester at Sac Capitol #antifa #Nonazisinsac: image via sǝuoɾǝoɾ @yridea, 27 June 2016

Robert Bautista, 65, said he saw a handful of white supremacists and skinheads arrive two or three at a time only to be immediately mobbed and chased away by the counter-protesters, who hurled water bottles and the wooden stakes that bore their signs.

“They beat the heck out of a couple guys,” said Bautista, a retired construction worker who came to partake in the counter-protest. “You could see their adrenaline was running high.”

Bautista also said he saw one counter-protester, a black man who appeared to be in his late 20s, convulsing on the ground with stab wounds to his chest and abdomen.

“He was a bloody mess,” he said.

7 stabbed at neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento

A victim is attended to after he was stabbed during a rally at the Capitol in Sacramento on Sunday: photo by Renee C. Byer / Associated Press, 27 June 2016

Dozens of counter-protesters remained after the injured had been taken away, watching over the Capitol steps in sweltering heat. On the grounds, a lone white nationalist supporter approached with a cellphone and shouted about his constitutional right to be on site and shoot video. After he exchanged heated words with the protesters, people erupted into a chorus of "Nazi, go home."

Believes he may have gotten attacked for live streaming the protests/counter-protests. @ABC10: image via Frances Wang @ABC10Frances, 27 June 2016

Parrott said the Traditionalist Worker Party supports ethnic nationalism, but was neither violent nor "a supremacist party.” Its website describes itself as “America’s first political party created by and for working families.”

Levin, of Cal State San Bernardino, described the group as “a Klan without robes” that had put “a new, hip wrapping” on white supremacist ideas. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said the group advocates for a white nationalist homeland.

Heimbach “is the rising face of white supremacy in this country,” said Ryan Lenz, online editor and senior writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “He is this generation’s David Duke.”

sacramento #antifa comrades, anyone got ID on any of these nazis? #NoNazisinSac: image via corvid befriender @__________n_n, 27 June 2016

Lenz said the group, however, was not a neo-Nazi entity because it wasn’t based on the ideology of the Nazi Party.

“The Nazi Party advocated for the genocide of everyone who was not Aryan. White nationalism does not advocate for that -– but they want to be separate from everyone who is not Aryan,” he said.

Lenz said that such groups had been energized with the emergence of a political figure who they believed was willing to fight for them: Trump.

He pointed out that Heimbach was captured in videos yelling at and shoving a Black Lives Matter protester at a Trump rally this spring. (Heimbach later defended his conduct in a blog post for the Traditionalist Youth Network, saying that the “heated moments” happened after the protester herself had been shouting and shoving rally attendees.)

“They have been energized in a way that’s terrifying,” Lenz said.

Trail of nazi blood, a couple dozen #antifa in pursuit. #nonazisinsac: image via Dave Id @Daveid, 27 June 2016

More nazis are run off, police move in too late. Some antifascists hurt badly, lots of blood. #nonazisinsac: image via Dave Id @Daveid, 27 June 2016

Nazi protectors move in to block corner. Hundreds here to run off nazis. #nonazisinsac: image via Dave Id @Daveid, 27 June 2016

One poster, released during the referendum campaign by the far-right U.K. Independence Party, showed a huge line of migrants snaking into the distance and was condemned even by some members of the “Leave” side: photo by Stefan Wermuth/Reuters, 27 June 2016

One poster, released during the referendum campaign by the far-right U.K. Independence Party, showed a huge line of migrants snaking into the distance and was condemned even by some members of the “Leave” side: photo by Stefan Wermuth/Reuters, 27 June 2016

Percy Bysshe Shelley: England in 1819

City workers crossed the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames on a foggy morning in London: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 2 November 2015

City workers cross the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames on a foggy morning in London: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 2 November 2015

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;

Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow

Through public scorn, -- mud from a muddy spring;

Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,

But leechlike to their fainting country cling

Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.

A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;

An army, whom liberticide and prey

Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;

Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;

Religion Christless, Godless -- a book sealed;

A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed --

Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may

Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): England in 1819, 1819 (unpublished in the poet's lifetime)

Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution exhibition

Workmen install the Portrait of Charles II in Coronation Robes by John Michael Wright at the National Maritime Museum, London, which is the largest object in their forthcoming exhibition Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution: photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire, 28 October 2015

The left must stand its ground on Lords reform: image via Total Politics @TotalPolitics, 1 November 2015

Amazing! What a picture!!! #MillionMaskMarch: image via Moe @moethemyth, 2 November 2015

David Cameron ready for Lewes bonfire: image via Steve Tremlett @stevetremlett , 2 November 2015

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, listens as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, delivered his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester: photo by Charlie Bibby, 5 October 2016

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The Great Chartist Meeting, Kennington Common, London: photo by William Kilburn, 10 April 1848, from Naomi Rosenblum: A World History of Photography, 1984 (Royal Archives, Windsor Castle)

The Great Chartist Meeting, Kennington Common, London: photo by William Kilburn, 10 April 1848, from Naomi Rosenblum: A World History of Photography, 1984 (Royal Archives, Windsor Castle)

Protesters clash with police at anti-government #MillionMaskMarch demo: image via BBC News verified account @BBCNews, 2 November 2015

Protesters clash with police at anti-government #MillionMaskMarch demo: image via BBC News verified account @BBCNews, 5 November 2015

Violence as anti-capitalist "Million Mask March" hits London: image via Agence France-Presse, 5 November 2015

The #MillionMaskMarch kettle: image via Damien Gayle @damiengayle, 5 November 2015

Remember, remember the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes night.: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 5 November 2015

Noticed on way home from #MillionMaskMarch. Seems apt.: image via Damien Gayle @damiengayle, 5 November 2015

UK - Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Prince Charles attend the annual Braemar Gathering. By @acbphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 6 September 2015

Good morning. Yesterday The Queen attended the 200th #Braemar gathering. I use to also enjoyed attending the games: image via The Royal Butler @TheRoyalButler, 6 September 2015

Queen Elizabeth II greets actor Angelina Jolie to present her with the insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, in the 1844 room at Buckingham Palace, London: photo by Anthony Devlin / PA via The Guardian, 11 October 2014

Art in "the jungle" if you look closely you will see Cameron/May collages. Their names are well known here #calais: image via Natalie Bennett Verified account @natalieben, 30 October 2015

Migrants stand next to their tent at a camp set near Calais, northern France, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. Thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the Channel Tunnel linking the two countries and boarding freight trains or trucks destined for Britain

Migrants stand next to their tent at a camp set near Calais, northern France, Wednesday. Thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the Channel Tunnel linking the two countries and boarding freight trains or trucks destined for Britain: photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP, 5 August 2015

A migrant climbs a security fence of a Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles near Calais, northern France, on July 30, 2015. One man died on July 29 in a desperate attempt to reach England via the Channel Tunnel as overwhelmed authorities fought off hundreds of migrants, prompting France to beef up its police presence.

A migrant climbs a security fence of a Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles near Calais, northern France. One man died on July 29 in a desperate attempt to reach England via the Channel Tunnel as overwhelmed authorities fought off hundreds of migrants, prompting France to beef up its police presence.: photo by Philippe Huguen/AFP, 30 July 2014

A seagull flies past Westminster Bridge during a foggy day in central London, November 2, 2015. Airports across Britain suffered disruption on Monday as heavy fog led to delays and cancellations for a second day. Flights to and from London airports were being affected, while foggy conditions in the capital and across Europe were causing problems to airports around the country.REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

A seagull flies past Westminster Bridge during a foggy day in central London today. Airports across Britain suffered disruption on Monday as heavy fog led to delays and cancellations for a second day. Flights to and from London airports were being affected, while foggy conditions in the capital and across Europe were causing problems to airports around the country: photo by Stefan Wermuth/Reuters, 2 November 2015

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker kisses European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici during a meeting of the EU’s executive body in Brussels, Belgium: photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters, 27 June 2016

Iranian Shiite Muslim women pray at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in the capital Tehran in the early hours of July 27, 2016 in commemoration of the death of the seventh century Imam Ali bin Abi-Taleb

Iranian Shiite Muslim women pray at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in the capital Tehran in commemoration of the death of the seventh century Imam Ali bin Abi-Taleb: photo by Kenareatta Kenare/AFP, 27 June 2016

Festivalgoers walk through the aftermatch of Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset

Festival goers walk through the aftermath of Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset: photo by PA, 27 June 2016

epa05393789 A woman clad in a kimono walks in front of a decorated construction site wall at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, 27 June 2016. Tokyo stocks rebounded after dropping sharply on 24 June following the Brexit vote. The Nikkei Stock Average gained 357.19 points, or 2.39 percent, to close at 15,309.21. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON

A woman clad in a kimono walks in front of a decorated construction site wall at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo stocks rebounded after dropping sharply on 24 June following the Brexit vote. The Nikkei Stock Average gained 357.19 points, or 2.39 percent, to close at 15,309.21: photo by Franck Robichon/EPA. 27 June 2016

World in focus – best photos for June 27, 2016

A woman in a kimono out shopping in Tokyo: photo by Franck Robichon / EPA, 27 June 2016

Brokers react on a trading floor at BGC, in the Canary Wharf financial district of London, Britain June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Brokers react on a trading floor at BGC, in the Canary Wharf financial district of London, Britain: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 27 June 2016

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 27: Chancellor George Osborne speaks at The Treasury, where he moved to try to calm market turmoil triggered by the pro-Brexit vote on June 27, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Mr Osborne spoke ahead of the start of financial trading and outlined how the Government will "protect the national interest" after the UK voted to leave the EU. (Photo by Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Gettty Images)

Chancellor George Osborne speaks at The Treasury, where he moved to try to calm market turmoil triggered by the pro-Brexit vote in London, United Kingdom. Mr Osborne spoke ahead of the start of financial trading and outlined how the Government will “protect the national interest” after the UK voted to leave the EU. photo by Richard Pohle/Pool, 27 June 2016

Firefighters mop-up a hot spot at a residence levelled by the Erskine Fire in South Lake, California, USA

Firefighters damp-down a hot spot at a residence levelled by the Erskine Fire in South Lake, California, USA: photo by Noah Berger/Reuters, 26 June 2016

Fishermen use a fire to attract fish on a traditional ìsulfuric fire fishing" boat in New Taipei City, Taiwan June 19, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu SEARCH "FIRE FISHING" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2IF5Y

Fishermen use a fire to attract fish on a traditional "sulfuric fire fishing” boat in New Taipei City, Taiwan: photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters, 27 June 2016

Fishermen use a fire to attract fish on a traditional "sulphuric fire fishing boat” in New Taipei City, Taiwan: photo by Tyrone Siu / Reuters, 27 June 2016

Fishermen use a fire to attract fish on a traditional "sulfuric fire fishing” boat in New Taipei City, Taiwan: photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters, 27 June 2016

World in focus – best photos for June 26, 2016

A Palestinian youth plays with fireworks in alley at the Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip: photo by Adel Hana / AP, 26 June 2016

The charred aftermath of the ‘Erskine Fire’ north-east of Bakersfield, California: photo by Frederic J Brown / AFP, 26 June 2016

Children in Beijing enjoy playing in the foam at a Bubble Show event: photo by Ng Han Guan / AP, 26 June 2016

Fans of Chile in Santiago celebrate beating Argentina in the Copa America Centenario final: photo by Esteban Felix / AP. 27 June 2016

Argentina fans in Buenos Aires react after watching their team lose the 2016 Copa America Centenario final against Chile: photo by Marcos Brindicci / Reuters, 27 June 2016

About 1,000 yoga practitioners in an indoor stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam: photo by Hau Dinh / AP, 27 June 2016

People relax after a yoga session in Hanoi, Vietnam: photo by Hau Dinh / AP, 26 June 2016

A security steward tackles a pitch invader in the fifth inning of a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and St Louis Cardinals in Seattle: photo by Elaine Thompson / AP, 26 June 2016

World in focus – best photos for June 25, 2016

A Kashmiri Muslim protestor throws bricks at Indian policemen during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 25 June 2016

A bird sings sitting in grass meadow near the village of Lyubcha, about 120km southwest of Minsk, Belarus: photo by Sergei Grits / AP, 25 June 2016

Changing of the Guard ceremony take place outside Buckingham Palace in central London

Changing of the Guard ceremony takes place outside Buckingham Palace in central London: photo by Odd Anderson/AFP, 26 June 2016

Thomas Wyatt: The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent

Portrait of Thomas Cromwell: Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1533, oil on oak, 70 x 61 cm (Frick Collection, New York)

The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent

the strongest staye of myne unquyet mynde

The lyke of it no man agayne can fynde

From East to west still seking thoughe he went

To myne unhappe for happe away hath rent

Of all my joye the vearye bark and rynde

And I (alas) by chaunce am thus assygnde

Dearlye to moorne till death do it relent

but syns that thus it is by destenye

What can I more but have a wofull heart

My penne in playnt, my voyce in wofull crye

My mynde in woe, my bodye full of smart

And I my self, myself alwayes to hate

Till dreadfull death, do ease my dolefull state

Thomas Wyatt (1502-1542): The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent, lamenting the death of Thomas Cromwell, 1540 (?), text from Duke of Norfolk, Arundel-Harington MS, f. 60v (adapted from Petrarch Rime 269)

Rescue workers work on damaged high-voltage towers after a tornado hit Funing on Thursday, in Jiangsu province: photo by Aly Song / Reuters, 25 June 2016

World in focus – best photos for June 25, 2016

Men rest on a pillar of a bridge over the river Ganga on a hot summer day in Allahabad, India: photo by Jitendra Prakash / Reuters, 25 June 2016

Girls play in Ulan Bator, Mongolia: photo by Jason Lee / Reuters, 27 June 2016

Pakistani stockbrokers rest during a trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) in Karachi: photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP, 28 June 2016

he British flag is being replaced by the European Union flag following the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels

The British flag is being replaced by the European Union flag following the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium: photo by Thierry Charlier/AFP, 28 June 2016

A schoolgirl reacts to rainwater being splashed on her, in a flooded street in Mumbai, India: photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP, 28 June 2016

Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain arriving at a summit meeting of European leaders in Brussels on Tuesday: photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters, 28 June 2016

Thomas Hardy: Channel Firing

That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,

And broke the chancel window-squares,

We thought it was the Judgment-day

And sat upright. While drearisome

Arose the howl of wakened hounds:

The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,

The worms drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No;

It’s gunnery practice out at sea

Just as before you went below;

The world is as it used to be:

“All nations striving strong to make

Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters

They do no more for Christés sake

Than you who are helpless in such matters.

“That this is not the judgment-hour

For some of them’s a blessed thing,

For if it were they’d have to scour

Hell’s floor for so much threatening....

“Ha, ha. It will be warmer when

I blow the trumpet (if indeed

I ever do; for you are men,

And rest eternal sorely need).”

So down we lay again. “I wonder,

Will the world ever saner be,”

Said one, “than when He sent us under

In our indifferent century!”

And many a skeleton shook his head.

“Instead of preaching forty year,”

My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,

“I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.”

Again the guns disturbed the hour,

Roaring their readiness to avenge,

As far inland as Stourton Tower,

And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Channel Firing, April 1914, from Satires of Circumstance, 1914

Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, left, with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, in Brussels on Tuesday: photo by John Thys/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, left, with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, in Brussels on Tuesday: photo by John Thys/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker talks to UKIP leader Nigel Farage at the EU headquarters in Brussels #Brexit: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 28 June 2016

Nigel Farage greeted European Commission President Juncker in the European Parliament this morning. Mr Juncker told the Ukip leader he was surprised to see him in Brussels after last week's Brexit vote.: photo by Reuters, 28 June 2016

Berlin, Germany 6-2012 | by daver6sf@yahoo.com

East Berlin Wall: photo by Dave R, 4 June 2012

The Kiss of Death. "God help us to survive this deadly love affair." (Friedrichshain, Berlin): photo by momo, 6 September 2015

A cyclist looks at a mural depicting Donald Trump and the former London mayor Boris Johnson, a “Brexit” supporter, in Stokes Croft, Bristol, England. The mural, echoing an iconic image of the Communist leaders Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, was conceived by the We Are Europe initiative to motivate young people to vote Remain. and was created by Bristol underground artist Felix Braun, 47, a descendant of German immigrants.: photo by Neil Munns/European Pressphoto Agency, 30 May 2016

East German President Erich Honecker embraces Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev during festivities celebrating the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany: photo by Regis Bossu, 1979

The largest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has long been an open-air exhibit called the East Side Gallery. One of its most famous paintings showed former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker.: photo by Reuters via Spiegel Online, 27 March 2016

The picture inspired many visitors to replicate the scene, as in this 1995 photo: photo by AP 1995 via Spiegel Online, 27 March 2016

The painting, however, is no more to be seen. Authorities recently removed it...

The painting, however, is no mlonger to be seen. Authorities recently removed it as part of renovation work on the monument. Only the picture's inscription, "My God, help me to survive this deadly love," is left at the top of the wall.: photo by Irina Slintchuk via Spiegel Online, 27 March 2016

Explosions rocked Turkey’s largest airport on Tuesday night, according to Turkish authorities and television reports: photo by Ilhas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

A Turkish government official said that the police fired shots at suspected attackers at the entryway to the airport’s international terminal, in an effort to stop them before they reached the building’s security checkpoint. The suspects then blew themselves up, the official said.: photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters, 28 June 2016

People waited with their luggage outside the airport after the attack: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

TURKEY - Passengers embrace outside Ataturk airport after Istanbul suicide attack. By @ozannkosee #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 28 June 2016

Turkish special forces members secured the area after an attack at Ataturk airport in Istanbul. Turkey has been rocked by a series of bombings since 2014, and they have been increasing in frequency.: photo by Sedat Suna/European Pressphoto Agency, 28 June 2016

Bodies lay in the street outside the terminal after the attack at Ataturk airport: photo by Ilhas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

Crime scene investigators collected evidence on Tuesday night at Ataturk airport: photo by Sedat Suna/European Pressphoto Agency, 28 June 2016

TURKEY - A riot police officer patrols Ataturk airport's entrance in Istanbul after suicide attack. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 June 2016

TURKEY - Anti-riot police officers block entrance of Ataturk airport in Istanbul after suicide attack. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 June 2016

@GailSimone What about Batman being attacked by duck-face? #deathkiss: image via Juliette @ElusiveJ, 17 January 2014

Fredo se que fuiste tu, Fredo. me rompiste el corazón Fredo. M.C. #michaelcorleone #godfather #fredo #deathkiss: image via Gerardo Félix @Geras4849, 12 September 2013

@FotoCinephila Sin duda alguna @charly2d2 @rodasons @darbon @8yomismo #DeathKiss #Godfather2 #peloscomoescarpias: image via Alberto Serra @_aserra, Juliette @ElusiveJ, 21 August 2014

The Kiss of the Sphinx: Franz von Stuck, 1890-1914, charcoal, pastel and chalk on grey paper, 520 x 460 mm (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg)

Scenes from the Life of Christ: 15. The Arrest of Christ (detail): Giotto di Bondone, 1304-06, fresco (Cappella Scrovegni, Padua)

Death and the Maiden: Hans Baldung Grien, 1518-20, oil on panel, 31 x 19 cm (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel)

MEXICO - Graffiti against US Donald Trump painted on the embankment of Bravo River in Ciudad Juarez. By Jesus Alcaza: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 June 2016

World in focus – best photos for June 28, 2016

Sheep graze at sunset in Dalanzadgad, in the southern Gobi desert: photo by Johannes Eisele / AFP, 28 June 2016

World in focus – best photos for June 29, 2016

Relatives of one of the victims of the previous day’s blast at Istanbul Ataturk airport mourn in front of a morgue in Istanbul, Turkey: photo by Rosman Orsal / Reuters. 29 June 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: "Dark inside me every day..."

July 28, 1987

Dark inside me every day

I am nothing to be

or see, or hear, compared

to what I am not here.

Because what I am, I am not,

and what I am not I disappear

like light through dark:

Dark inside me every day.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Untitled ("Dark inside me every day..."), 28 July 1987, from Collected Poems, 2012

TURKEY - A bullet impact on a window at Ataturk airport in Istanbul, a day after a suicide attack. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 June 2016

#TurkeyAttack Bullet impacts are pictured on a window at Ataturk airport's International terminal #AFP Photo by @ozannkosee: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 29 June 2016

Shattered glass from Tuesday’s suicide bombings at Istanbul’s main airport. The Turkish government blamed the Islamic State for the attack.: photo by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times, 29 June 2016

Islamic State prime suspect in Istanbul airport attack: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 29 June 2016

Clearing debris in the cordoned off area of the airport. The chaos enveloping Turkey, including the series of attacks and an enormous influx of refugees that has strained resources, vividly illustrates how the civil war in Syria has rippled outward and destabilized neighboring countries.: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016

A terrorist attack at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul left dozens dead. Officials blamed Islamic State militants, but the group has not claimed responsibility.: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 29 July 2016

#Turkey A mother of victims reacts after Istanbul airport suicide attack. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 29 June 2016

Turkey - People assist a mother who lost a relative a day after Istanbul airport suicide attack. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 June 2016

Relatives of victims outside a hospital in Istanbul. Early Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that early indications suggested that the Islamic State was behind the latest attack, although officials still had not released any information about the attackers by Wednesday afternoon.: photo by Defne Karadeniz via The New York Times, 29 June 2016

Triple suicide bombing on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport - in pictures

A triple suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has killed at least 36 people, including foreigners, with Turkey’s prime minister saying early signs pointed to an assault by ISIL.: photo by Emrah Gurel / AP, 29 June 2016

Relatives of one of the victims at the forensic morgue in Istanbul. A majority of the victims appeared to be Muslims, either Turks or visitors from Muslim countries.: photo by Defne Karadeniz via the New York Times, 28 June 2016

Hours after the attack, a limited number of flights resumed, and workers continued clearing debris and replacing shattered windows at the airport: photo by Associated Press, 29 June 2016

The attack prompted the temporary suspension of all flights at the airport -- one of Europe’s busiest hubs: photo by Defne Karadeniz via the National, 29 June 2016

Passengers leave on a bus from Istanbul’s Ataturk airport. Attackers began spraying bullets at the international terminal entrance before blowing themselves up at around 10pm Tuesday.: photo by Emrah Gurel / AP, 29 June 2016

Workers repair the damaged parts of the terminal building at Turkey’s largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, following an attack by three suicide bombers the day before.: photo by Goran Tomasevic / Reuters, 29 June 2016

Workers wash the road in front of the Ataturk airport: photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters, 29 June 2016

The funeral of Mohammad Eymen Demirci on Wednesday in Istanbul, a day after a suicide attack on Ataturk airport killed him and at least 40 others: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016

TURKEY - People carry the coffin of airport suicide attack victim in Istanbul during his funeral. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 June 2016

Cabins for tourists are seen on the grasslands on the outskirt of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: photo by, Jason Lee / Reuters, 29 June 2016

Water is released from the floodgates of the Xiaolangdi dam on the Yellow River near Luoyang, in China’s Henan province. The floodgates are opened every year in an operation to flush millions of tonnes of silt from the river bed.: photo by Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016

San Francisco Giants’ Brandon Belt breaks his bat while grounding out against the Oakland Athletics in the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco: photo by Jeff Chiu/Associated Press, 28 June 2016

Gregor Blanco of the San Francisco Giants is hit by a pitch from Marc Rzepczynski of the Oakland Athletics during the sixth inning at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California: photo by Jason O. Watson/AFP, 28 June 2016

Herder Shagdarjaviiu Batsargal carries an injured sheep in the Gobi desert near Luusiin, Mongolia, on June 28, 2016. Mongolians went to the polls across their sprawling, sparsely populated country on June 29. The country is more than twice the size of France, but with a population of only three million. Lorries with mobile ballot boxes crisscrossed the vast steppe to enable the sick and elderly to vote, while herders and others streamed to polling stations set up in gers, the traditional Mongolian tents.: photo by Johannes Eisele / Agence France-Presse. 29 June 2016

MONGOLIA - A man rides his horse next to a ger near Zuunmod south of Ulan Bator. By @johaynz #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 29 June 2016

Masked Palestinians gather during clashes with Israeli police during the holy month of Ramadan near The Dome of the Rock (seen in background) on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City

Masked Palestinians gather during clashes with Israeli police during the holy month of Ramadan near The Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City: photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters, 28 June 2016

We do not want just a few [scraps] of life in Aleppo Ph: Baraa Al Halabi #STOPRUSSIA: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 27 June 2016

[Kurdish PKK fighter, Syria]: photo by Joey L. via Joey L.Verified account@joeyldotcom, 29 June 2016

@joeyldotcom's photos of Kurdish #PKK Fighters Deleted by #instagram #TwitterKurds: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 19 September 2015

#Turkey Shocked reactions as riot police fire rubber bullets at an #LGBT community rally in #Istanbul By @ozannkosee: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 June 2016

#Israel Tank fire during Israeli army manoeuvres near the border with #Syria. BY @menahemkahana @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 June 2016

#Athens A woman sits next to tents at the unofficial camp for #refugees at the old airport. By @lgouliam @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 27 June 2016

At the Euronext Stock Exchange in Paris’s financial district, the day after Britain voted to leave the European Union.: photo by Thomas Samson/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

People walk past a mural on a restaurant wall depicting U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin greeting each other with a kiss in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. Kestutis Girnius, associate professor of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science in Vilnius university, told AFP “This graffiti expresses the fear of some Lithuanians that Donald Trump is likely to kowtow to Vladimir Putin and be indifferent to Lithuania’s security concerns. Trump has notoriously stated that Putin is a strong leader, and that NATO is obsolete and expensive.”: photo by Petras Malukas / AFP, 13 May 2016

UK - Donald Trump kisses Boris Johnson on a mural in Bristol. By @geoff_caddick #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 May 2016

a church silhouetted below a belt of the Milky Way at the Hungarian-Slovakian border village Gemersky Jablonec, or Gomoralmagy in Hungarian, in southern Slovakia, 29 June 2016. EPA/PETER KOMKA HUNGARY OUT

The Milky Way in the night sky, at the Hungarian-Slovakian border, near the village of Gemersky Jablonec, or Gomoralmagy in Hungarian: photo by Peter Kompka/EPA, 30 June 2016

Jalal al-Din Rumi: What Was Told, That

What was said to the rose that made it open was said
to me here in my chest. 

What was told the cypress that made it strong
and straight, what was

whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made
sugarcane sweet, whatever

was said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil in
Turkestan that makes them

so handsome, whatever lets the pomegranate flower blush
like a human face, that is

being said to me now. I blush. Whatever put eloquence in
language, that’s happening here.

The great warehouse doors open; I fill with gratitude,
chewing a piece of sugarcane, 

in love with the one to whom every that belongs!

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) : What Was Told, That, translated from the Persian by Coleman Barks in The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, 2002

#RumiWasntWhite... he also wasn't Iranian or Turkish, says Kabul in UNESCO row by @achaon: image by AFP Islamabad/Kabul @AFPAfPAK, 30 June 2016

#RumiWasntWhite: Outrage over Hollywood Choice to Play Persian Poet: image via Voice of America Verified account @VOA News, 30 June 2016

Lenny as a 13th century Persian poet? Hang on a second! There's one major problem with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Rumi: Rumi was not white: image via The Independent @independent, 30 June 2016

Taliban attack police cadets in Kabul, killing 30. Policemen search the wreckage of a bus.: image via: image by AFP Islamabad/Kabul @AFPAfPAK, 30 June 2016

At least 27 killed, 40 wounded in Taliban attack on police buses. Security personnel gather.: image via: image by AFP Islamabad/Kabul @AFPAfPAK, 30 June 2016

This is how Peace Dove is in @Afghanistan. Kabul bled and everyone else mourned. #EnoughTerrorism #Kabulbleeds: image via Malali Bashir @ Malali Bashir, 30 June 2016

Wreckage of a minibus ripped apart by a landmine just outside Somalia’s capital Mogadishu: photo by Mohammed Abiwah/AFP, 30 June 2016

 whatever was said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil in Turkestan

TURKEY - Women pray during the funerals two days after airport suicide attack in Istanbul. By @ozannkosee: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 30 June 2016

Today in Istanbul, the Amiri family buried four of its members, including 9-yr-old Huda. All killed at the airport.: image via Katy Lee @kjalee, 26 June 2016

Friends and relatives of Habibullah Sefer, who was killed in Tuesday’s attack at Istanbul airport, carry his flag-draped coffin during his funeral ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey: photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters, 30 June 2016

Dong Energy, the Danish utility company, is valued at about $15 billion and is the largest public offering this year by far: photo by Jeppe Bjoern Veljoe/European Pressphoto Agency, 30 June 2016

Passengers embrace each other as they wait outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport early on June 29 following their evacuation after a bombing. Suspected Islamic State group extremists have hit the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said Tuesday. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Ataturk airport attack within Turkey.: photo by Emrah Gurel/Associated Press, 29 June 2016

A relative of the Ataturk Airport suicide bomb attack victim waits dejectedly outside Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Hospital, in the early hours of June 29. Three suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up at the entrance to the main international airport in Istanbul.: photo by Defne Karadeniz, 29 June 2016

Forensic police work the explosion site at Ataturk airport on June 28 in Istanbul after two explosions followed by gunfire hit Turkey's biggest airport, killing at least 40 people and injuring many more.: photo by Ozan Kose/AFP, 28 June 2016

Passengers leave Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey's largest airport, after a suicide bomb attack in the early hours of June 29: photo by Defne Karadeniz, 29 June 2016

A man looks at the damaged explosions site in Ataturk airport's international arrivals terminal on June 29 a day after a suicide bombing and gun attack targeted Istanbul's airport, killing at least 40 people.: photo by Ozan Kose/AFP, 29 June 2016

Reflections are cast on the glass where bullet holes remain at Turkey's largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey, on June 29.: photo by Defne Karadeniz, 29 June 2016

A worker wipes traces of blood from the wall of Ataturk Airport in Istanbul on June 29: photo by Omer Kuscu/Associated Press, 29 June 2016

A relative of Umut Sakaroglu, a custom officer at Ataturk Airport who was killed in the attacks on June 28, mourns during a funeral in Istanbul: photo by Sedat Suna/EPA, 29 June 2016

Palestinian children play in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip: photo by Mohammed Saber/European Pressphoto Agency, 30 June 2016

Syrian refugees gathering for water last week at the Rukban refugee camp near Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria: photo by Associated Press, 30 June 2016

Syrian refugees gathering for water last week at the Rukban refugee camp near Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria: photo by Associated Press, 30 June 2016

Sacrilege: trade in wild baby elephants, often after mothers killed, fed by Sri Lanka elite: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 30 June 2016

GAZA STRIP - Palestinians wait for a travel permit to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border. By @saidkhatib @AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 30 June 2016

BBQ in Ulan Bator

World in focus – best photos for June 30, 2016

Children play football in the Villa Maria del Triunfo district on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Villa Maria del Triunfo sprang up around Lima as people fled the countryside amid the brutal war with Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrillas during the 1980’s.: photo by Rodrigo Abd / AP, 30 June 2016

Women comprise 4 of the 10 member team from Pakistani university NUST which has qualified for the RoboCup @AFPAfPAK: image via Issam Ahmed @IssamAhmed, 27 June 2016

New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Hicks reacts after being unable to catch Adrian Beltre’s sixth-inning solo home run in a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in New York: photo by Kathy Willen / AP, 30 June 2016

Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal into Euro 2016 semi-finals after penalty shootout – in pictures

Poland supporters on the stands wait for the start of the Euro 2016 quarter-final between Poland and Portugal at the Stade Velodrome stadium in Marseille: photo by Thanassis Stavrakis / AP, 30 June 2016

Portugal fans cheer as they wait for the start of the Euro 2016 quarter-final match between Poland and Portugal: photo by Frank Augstein / AP, 30 June 2016

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo gestures to the supporters during the warm-up: photo by Thanassis Stavrakis / AP, 30 June 2016

Robert Lewandowski, right, scores Poland’s first goal: photo by Frank Augstein / AP, 30 June 2016

Robert Lewandowski, left, celebrates after scoring the opening goal: photo by Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP, 30 June 2016

Portugal midfielder Renato Sanches scores the equalising goal: photo by Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters, 30 June 2016

Renato Sanches, right, celebrates after scoring the equalising goal: photo by Martin Meissner / AP, 30 June 2016

Cristiano Ronaldo, left, takes a shot at goal during extra time: photo by Francisco Leong / AFP, 30 June 2016

Poland midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski misses his penalty in the shootout: photo by Peter Powell / EPA, 30 June 2016

Portugal forward Ricardo Quaresma scores the winning penalty: photo by Bertrand Langlois / AFP, 30 June 2016

Portugal players celebrate after winning the penalty shootout: photo by. Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP, 30 June 2016

A poppy field near York as the UK and France prepare to commemorate the Battle of the Somme. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 30, 2016. The Queen and senior royals will lead the nation in remembrance to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Events across the UK and in France will commemorate the start of the battle on July 1 1916, a day that became the bloodiest in British military history with almost 20,000 dead. See PA story HERITAGE Somme. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

A poppy field near York as the UK and France prepare to commemorate the Battle of the Somme: photo by Danny Lawson/PA, 30 June 2016

This picture taken on June 29, 2016 shows workers cleaning algae on a beach in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province

Workers cleaning algae on a beach in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province: photo via FT Photo Diary. 30 June 2016

canyonlands at night, Standing on the edge of an outer canyon (and of the island in the Sky) looking south from the inner canyons that lead up to the Colorado River, all not far upstream from the Grand Canyon (San Juan, Utah): photo by jpauus, 27 June 2016

Shelter L. Air Raid shelters, Mare Island (Vallejo, California): photo by efo, 26 June 2016

High Tatras, Slovakia, seen from Krivan Mount: photo by Juraj Kovacik, 22 September 2009

What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest in Ulan Bator

MONGOLIA - A man works at a BBQ in the suburbs of Ulan Bator. By @johaynz: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 30 June 2016

THIEPVAL, FRANCE - JULY 1: Prince Harry, Catherine, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge during the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Thiepval Memorial on July 1, 2016 in Thiepval, France. The event is part of the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Thiepval Memorial in Thiepval, France, where 70,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave are commemorated. (Photo by Andrew Matthews - Pool/Getty Images)***BESTPIX***

Prince Harry, Catherine, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge during the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Thiepval Memorial in Thiepval, France: photo by Andrew Matthews/Pool, 1 July 2016

When Maidens are young and in their Spring
Of Pleasure, of Pleasure, let 'em take their full Swing,
         full Swing,-- full Swing,--
   And Love, and Dance, and Play, and Sing.
   For Silvia, believe it, when Youth is done,
There's nought but hum drum, hum drum, hum drum;
There's nought but hum drum, hum drum, hum drum.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689): from Scaramouch's Song, in The Emperor of the Moon: A Farce, 1689

Britain Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, Wimbledon, England. General view of the cover over court 1 as rain delays play.: photo by Reuters, 2 July 2016

World in focus – best photos for July 1, 2016

Spectators are led into the ground by security ahead of the start of day four of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England: photo by Jordan Mansfield via The National, 1 July 2016

Theresa May, at an aristo regatta in Henley, England, on Friday, is the favorite of five candidates seeking to be prime minister: photo by Jonathan Brady/Press Association, via Associated Press, 2 July 2016

Theresa May, at an aristo regatta in Henley, England, on Friday, is the favorite of five candidates seeking to be prime minister: photo by Jonathan Brady/Press Association, via Associated Press, 2 July 2016

#instantané Scène de rue à Kiev, Ukraine @AFPhoto #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 2 July 2016

A neighborhood in Sunderland, England, where “Brexit” was heavily favored: photo by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times, 29 June 2016

A neighborhood in Sunderland, England, where “Brexit” was heavily favored: photo by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times, 29 June 2016

A woman in Sunderland, England, on Sunday after British voters chose to leave the European Union. Voters in Sunderland overwhelmingly supported leaving the bloc.: photo by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times, 26 June 2016

People hold banners during a demonstration against Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, in central London. Britain voted to leave the European Union in the EU Brexit referendum.: photo by Reuters, 2 July 2016

Demonstrators in favor of remaining in the European Union gathered last Saturday in Parliament Square in London, several days after British voters chose to leave the alliance.: photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times, 25 June 2016

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 01: Professional wrestler Magnifico leaps from the ropes of a wrestling ring during a photo call at York Hall in Bethnal Green on July 1, 2016 in London, England. A number of luchadores will perform in 'The Greatest Spectacle of Lucha Libre', which takes place over two days and features Mexican and British stars from the world of Mexican Wrestling. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Professional wrestler Magnifico leaps from the ropes of a wrestling ring at York Hall in Bethnal Green in London, England. A number of luchadores will perform in ‘The Greatest Spectacle of Lucha Libre’, which takes place over two days and features Mexican and British stars from the world of Mexican Wrestling: photo by Jack Taylor, 1 July 2016

Secret Service agents at the Washington home of Hillary Clinton on Saturday. As part of its "let's pretend" investigation of her use of a private email server, the F.B.I. interviewed the former secretary of state on Saturday morning. Mrs. Clinton’s sit-down with the F.B.I. came amid controversy over a meeting between her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who "ran into each other" on Monday at the Phoenix airport while Mr. Clinton was fund-raising for his wife’s campaign. The ex-POTUS trotted oacross boiling tarmac to climb aboard the Attorney General's plane, ostensibly to discuss recent acquisitions for his vintage Colonial-era furniture collection.: photo by Al Drago/The New York Times, 2 July 2016

Secret Service agents at the Washington home of Hillary Clinton on Saturday. As part of its "let's pretend" investigation of her use of a private email server, the F.B.I. interviewed the former secretary of state on Saturday morning. Mrs. Clinton’s sit-down with the F.B.I. came amid controversy over a meeting between her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who "ran into each other" on Monday at the Phoenix airport while Mr. Clinton was fund-raising for his wife’s campaign. The ex-POTUS trotted oacross boiling tarmac to climb aboard the Attorney General's plane, ostensibly to discuss recent acquisitions for his vintage Colonial-era furniture collection.: photo by Al Drago/The New York Times, 2 July 2016

Thanks, errybody! We overcame trolls, #HillBots and threats today through solidarity and humor. We will not yield!: image via PhillyForBernie @PhillyForBernie, 28 June 2016

A model presents a creation by Txell Miras during the 080 Barcelona spring-summer 2017 fashion week in Barcelona: photo by Luis Gene / AFP, 28 June 2016

#HillaryClinton met w/ FBI re: email scandal. What a joke! There'd be Super Bowl-style TV coverage if it were #Trump: image via PJ Campbell @pegcamp78, 2 July 2016

Hillary Clinton models senior maternity sportswear in Indianapolis on Sunday. Mrs. Clinton raised more than $40 million for her presidential campaign in June, a healthy sum as the presumptive Democratic nominee seeks to maintain her overwhelming fund-raising and organizational advantage against Donald J. Trump by crushing him beneath a massive barrage of paid advertisements. For candidate Clinton, every situation will always be a bought situation. This is Murica, isn't it?: photo by Aaron P. Bernstein, 26 June 2016

Hillary Clinton models senior maternity sportswear in Indianapolis on Sunday. Mrs. Clinton raised more than $40 million for her presidential campaign in June, a healthy sum as the presumptive Democratic nominee seeks to maintain her overwhelming fund-raising and organizational advantage against Donald J. Trump by crushing him beneath a massive barrage of paid advertisements. For candidate Clinton, every situation will always be a bought situation. This is Murica, isn't it? .: photo by Aaron P. Bernstein, 26 June 2016

Models presented clothing by the American fashion designer Thom Browne during Paris Fashion Week on Sunday: photo by Christophe Petit Tesson/European Pressphoto Agency, 28 June 2016

Waiting for the speech by Donald Trump in Monessen, Pennsyvania, on Tuesday. Mr. Trump on Tuesday laid out a radically different economic message than Republicans have advanced, and it holds considerable appeal to white working-class Democrats. He supported renegotiating or withdrawing from Nafta, cracking down on Chinese currency manipulation, and using United States steel for domestic infrastructure -- which he promises to rebuild.: photo by Hilary Swift for The New York Times, 29 June 2016

Waiting for the speech by Donald Trump in Monessen, Pennsyvania, on Tuesday. Mr. Trump on Tuesday laid out a radically different economic message than Republicans have advanced, and it holds considerable appeal to white working-class Democrats. He supported renegotiating or withdrawing from Nafta, cracking down on Chinese currency manipulation, and using United States steel for domestic infrastructure -- which he promises to rebuild.: photo by Hilary Swift for The New York Times, 29 June 2016

Anzilotti's wipe their asses with Hilary's face #trump: image via Kristina Anzilotti @kristinaxo16, 2 July 2016

Bowling No.1. Shelter Island, New York.: photo by efo, 9 March 2014

Jezebel Nº 1 | by efo

Jezebel No. 1. 1960s American pin-setting machine in a two-lane bowling alley at the Shelter Island American Legion Hall, Shelter Island, New York.: photo by efo, 9 March 2014

Changing Room (Shelter Island, New York): photo by oliver rockwell, 7 March 2006

President Obama arrived in Ottawa on Wednesday for the North America leaders' Silly Hat Summit meeting: photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times, 29 June 2016

President Obama arrived in Ottawa on Wednesday for the North America leaders'Silly Hat Summit meeting: photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times, 29 June 2016

Michelle Obama sat in a car in Madrid while on a three-nation tour to promote her global girls' education initiative, at the very least: photo by Daniel Ochoa De Olza/Associated Press, 1 July 2016

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Michelle Obama sat in a car in Madrid while on a three-nation tour to promote her global girls' education initiative, at the very least: photo by Daniel Ochoa De Olza/Associated Press, 1 July 2016

Voters in large numbers have been rejecting much of the underlying logic behind a dynamic globalized economy that on paper seems to make the world much richer. For the bankers, trade negotiators, international businesspeople and others who make up the economic elite, this is cause for introspection, at least among those who aren’t too narcissistic to care what their countrymen think. Here is an overarching theory of what we might have missed in the march toward a hyper-efficient global economy: Economic efficiency isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Efficiency sounds great in theory. What kind of monster doesn’t want to optimize possibilities, minimize waste and make the most of finite resources? But the economic and policy elite may like efficiency a lot more than normal humans do.: illustration by James Firnhaber via The New York Times, 1 July 2016

Herder Zandraagiin Budjav posing for a picture in the Gobi desert near Luusiin. Mongolians went to the polls across their sprawling, sparsely-populated country on June 29 as it struggles to benefit from its vast natural resources amid disputes over foreign investment and slumping demand from neighbouring China.: photo by Johannes Eisele, 29 June 2016

Chileans celebrate victory over Argentina in the final match of the Copa America Centenario 2016 in Santiago, Chile: photo by Luis Hidalgo / AFP, 26 June 2016

A Tesla Model POS, with its self-driving mode and purple fingernail-polish-and-bondage-bracelet-equipped robo-operator enabled. The race by automakers and technology firms to develop self-driving cars has been fueled by the belief that computers can operate a vehicle more safely than human drivers. But that view is now in question after the revelation on Thursday that the driver of a Tesla Model POS electric sedan was killed in an accident when the car was in self-driving mode. In a statement, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had sent an investigative team to examine the vehicle and the crash site in Williston, Florida.: photo by Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg. 2 July 2016

A member of Iraqi government forces celebrates along a street in Falluja. Iraq, after government forces recaptured the city from Islamic State militants: photo by Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters, 27 June 2016

TOPSHOT - A statue depicting US' Statue of Liberty decorated with a Star of David on its head is set ablaze by Iranian protestors during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on July 1, 2016. Tens of thousands joined pro-Palestinian rallies in Tehran, as the annual Quds Day protests take on broader meaning for a region mired in bitter disputes and war. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENAREATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images

A statue depicting US’ Statue of Liberty decorated with a Star of David on its head is set ablaze by Iranian protestors during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran: photo by Atta Kenareatta Kenare/AFP, 1 July 2016

Members of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces parade Shiite step on a representation of an Israeli flag during a commemoration of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July. 1, 2016. The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared the last Friday of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan as "al-Quds Day," Arabic for Jerusalem, a day of protest to show the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims. Jerusalem is the third holiest site in Islam after the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Members of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces parade march on a representation of an Israeli flag during a commemoration of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Baghdad, Iraq: photo by Hadi Mizban/AP, 1 July 2016

BERLIN, GERMANY - JULY 01: Maja, a 40-year-old elephant, peeks into a bakery while one of her minders eats a sandwich during a stroll through the neighborhood with her minders from a nearby circus on July 1, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. Maja performs daily at Circus Busch and circus workers take her on walks among the nearby apartment buildings to vacant lots where she likes to eat the grass. City authorities sanction the outings and federal regulations reportedly encourage activities for elephants to stimulate the animals' cognitive awareness. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Maja, a 40-year-old elephant, peeks into a bakery while one of her minders eats a sandwich during a stroll through the neighborhood with her minders from a nearby circus in Berlin, Germany: photo by Sean Gallup, 1 July 2016

epaselect epa05400625 A Chinese military band member is seen playing his trumpet below the Communist Star before a celebration ceremony of the 95th anniversary of Founding the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People (GHOP) in Beijing, China, 01 July 2016. China marks on 01 July the 95th anniversary of the formation of its ruling communist party with a grand ceremony at the GHOP. EPA/HOW HWEE YOUNG

A Chinese military band member is seen playing his trumpet below the Communist Star before a celebration ceremony of the 95th anniversary of Founding the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China: photo by How Hwee Young/EPA, 1 July 2016

A Chinese military band member is seen playing his trumpet below the Communist Star before a celebration ceremony of the 95th anniversary of Founding the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People (GHOP) in Beijing, China: photo by How Hwee Young / EPA, 1 July 2016

Men prayed at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the last Friday of Ramadan: photo by Iqro Rinaldi/Reuters, 1 July 2016

Men prayed at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the last Friday of Ramadan: photo by Iqro Rinaldi/Reuters, , 1 July 2016

Jhoulys Chacin of the Los Angeles Angels threw a pitch in last Saturday’s game against the Oakland Athletics in Anaheim, California. Oakland won, 7 to 3.: photo by Gregory Bull/Associated Press, 27 June 2016

First graders at the Detroit Leadership Academy’s elementary school in Detroit in May. Detroit is mired in a pubic education fiasco that is perhaps unparalleled in the United States.: photo by Joshua Lott for The New York Times, 1 July 2016

Two homeless children sat on a sidewalk in São Paulo, Brazil, where they had been sleeping: photo by Miguel Schincariol/Agence France-Presse, 1 July 2016

A pickup truck passed the remains of mobile homes devastated by a wildfire on Saturday in South Lake, about 40 miles northeast of Bakersfield, California: photo by Jae C. Hong/Associated Press, 25 June 2016

Greek firefighters took on a forest blaze about 30 miles northwest of Athens on Sunday that had been raging for four days: photo by Yannis Kolesidis/European Pressphoto Agency, 26 June 2016

Forces loyal to the United Nations fought Islamic State militants in Surt, Libya, on Thursday. The attack on Surt has put pressure on Islamic State forces in Libya, possibly imperiling its largest base outside Iraq and Syria:: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 30 June 2016

A relative of a security guard who was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, mourned on June 22 after the bodies arrived at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. For Nepalese workers, finding work outside Nepal can be dangerous. The authorities said 13 Nepalese died in the bombing.: photo by Narendra Shrestha/European Pressphoto Agency, 22 June 2016

The daughter of Joseph Laous, who died after a suicide bomb attack in his village, mourns on his coffin during his funeral in Qaa, Lebanon: photo by Hassan Abdallah / Reuters, 29 June 2016

The mother of air hostess Gulsen Bahadir, who was killed during the Istanbul airport attack, cries during the funeral in Istanbul: photo by Bulent Kilic / AFP, 29 June 2016

Relatives mourned Habibullah Sefer, a victim of Tuesday’s attack at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, during his funeral on Thursday: photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press, 29 June 2016

INDIA - Children prepare to break the fast with the Iftar meal during Ramadan in Chennai. By Arun Sankar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 July 2016

INDIA - Muslims offer prayers in the complex of ancient Shah-E-Alam Roza and Mosque in Ahmedabad. By Sam Panthaky #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 July 2016

People leave the Jama Masjid towards Meena Bazar ahead of prayers on last Friday of #Ramadan2016 in #Delhi #AFPphoto: image via Chandan Khanna @Chandanphoto, 1 July 2016

A young girl stands in abandoned school for hosting Syrian and Afghan refugees in Athens. By @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPhoto, 2 July 2016

Children play in an abandoned school used for hosting Syrian and Afghan refugees in Athens. By @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPhoto, 2 July 2016

At an abandoned school in Athens used by volunteers for hosting families of Syrian and Afghan #refugees: image via Aris Messinis #ArisMessinis, 2 July 2016 Attiki, Greece

Inside an abandoned school in Athens used by volunteers for hosting families of Syrian and Afghan #refugees: image via Aris Messinis #ArisMessinis, 2 July 2016 Attiki, Greece

World in focus – best photos for July 2

A young Syrian boy washes himself before praying in a mosque in Hamorya, Eastern Al-Ghouta province, Syria, 02 July 2016. In Islamic belief Laylat Al Qadr, one of the holiest nights in the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, marks the night when the first verses of the Quran were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.: photo by EPA, 2 July 2016

Bangladeshi passengers try to climb on to the roof of an overcrowded train as they head home ahead of Eid al-Fitr at a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hundreds of thousands of people working in Dhaka leave for their hometowns every year to celebrate Eid al-Fitr with their family.: photo by AM Ahad / AP, 1 July 2016

BANGLADESH - Security personnel stand guard after gunmen stormed a restaurant in Dhaka. @AFPphoto: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPhoto, 2 July 2016

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladeshi troops stormed an upscale restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter on Saturday, ending an 11-hour standoff with gunmen who had hacked patrons to death and sent photos of the carnage to the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attack.The authorities said 20 hostages, most of them foreigners, had been killed in the siege, the deadliest and boldest in an accelerating series of attacks by Islamist militants that have shaken the country’s secular underpinnings. Relatives are seen mourning victims killed in the siege. At least 30 people were wounded.: photo by European Pressphoto Agency, 2 July 2016

A relative of a police officer, killed in a standoff with heavily armed militants, sits inside a car near the site of attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 2, 2016. Bangladeshi forces stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area where heavily armed militants held dozens of people hostage Saturday morning, rescuing some captives including foreigners.: photo by AP, 2 July 2016

Kashmiri Muslim women offer prayers inside a house during Jumat-ul-Vida or the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan outside Jamia Masjid in Srinagar: photo by Danish Ismail / Reuters, 1 July 2016

A Palestinian man and his son from West Bank making their way next to the separated barrier to cross Qalandia checkpoint to attend the last Friday prayer of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem. Israeli authority allow free access to Jerusalem for women and children, and limited the age of men over 45.: photo by . Atef Safadi / EPA, 1 July 2016

Muslims offer prayers on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Allhabad, India. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar, by fasting from dawn till dusk.: photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP, 1 July 2016

Iranian Shiite Muslims pray as they place the Quran on their heads at the graves of soldiers who were killed during 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, just outside Tehran, Iran, on Monday. Iranian Muslims spent the night in prayer and devotion commemorating Laylat Al Qadr, or the Night of Power, which is the anniversary of the night that Muslims believe Prophet Muhammad received the first revelation of the Quran by the angel Gabriel.: photo by Ebrahim Noroozi / AP, 27 June 2016

An Afghan boy jumps for a swim at Qargha lake in Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Mohammad Ismail / Reuters, 29 June 2016

A Nepalese youth plays in a rice paddy field in Baande village on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 29, 2016. Farmers in Nepal celebrate National Paddy Day as the annual rice planting season begins.: photo by Prakash Mathema / AFP, 29 June 2016

Migrants last Saturday on the Aquarius, a ship operated by Doctors Without Borders, after they had been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea: photo by Bram Janssen/Associated Press, 25 June 2016

Migrants look out from the Aquarius rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, as more than 600 migrants are aboard the ship rescued by SOS Mediterranee and the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres. The organizations cooperate during search and rescue operations for migrants and refugees from boats in distress in the Mediterranean Sea: photo by Bram Janssen / AP, 25 June 2016

Fans of Egypt's Al Ahly celebrate a goal: photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters, 1 July 2016

MONGOLIA - A Mongolian tourist poses with an eagle overlooking Ulan Bator. By @johaynz #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPhoto, 2 July 2016

Two paddleboarders are seen on Lake Balaton near Balatonfoldvar, 120 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, June 30, 2016. (Gyorgy Varga/MTI via AP)

Two paddle boarders are seen on Lake Balaton near Balatonfoldvar, Hungary: photo by Gyorgy Varga/MTI/AP, 1 July 2016

Grasses (Vallejo, California): photo by efo, 3 July 2016

Robert Creeley: America

porchflag (DesMoines, Iowa): photo by greg (It'sGreg), 6 April 2014

America, you ode for reality!
Give back the people you took.

Let the sun shine again
on the four corners of the world

you thought of first but do not
own, or keep like a convenience.

People are your own word, you
invented that locus and term.

Here, you said and say, is
where we are. Give back

what we are, these people you made,
us, and nowhere but you to be.

Robert Creeley (1929-2005): America, from Pieces (1969)

Killer blob (Los Angeles): photo by anotherswede ON A BREAK, 7 July 2013

Tourist badly hurt by blast from homemade firework in New York's Central Park: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 3 July 2016

Tourist badly hurt by blast from homemade firework in New York's Central Park: Barbara Goldberg, Reuters, 3 July 2016

A 19-year-old tourist in Manhattan's Central Park suffered a severe foot wound on Sunday after an apparent homemade firework exploded when he jumped off a rock and stepped on the device, authorities said.

Police said there was no reason to suspect that the blast, on the eve of Fourth of July celebrations, was the work of extremists or that the explosive object had been designed to hurt anyone.

Investigators said the object was likely fabricated by an amateur fireworks enthusiast for the thrill of creating a loud noise and flash. At least one bystander in the park told CNN the blast sounded "like a cannon."

Photographs of the injured man, who police said was visiting from Virginia with two friends, showed his left foot bandaged and badly mangled as he was being treated by emergency medical technicians on the scene.

The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where police said he was undergoing surgery and was listed in serious but stable condition. His two companions, aged 18 and 20, were not injured. None was believed to have had anything to do with making the device.

The late-morning explosion occurred when all three men jumped off a rock and the victim landed on top of the object, which had been stashed near the boulder out of the way of normal foot traffic, police said.

"At this time, we have no evidence this is related to terrorism," NYPD Deputy Chief John O'Connell told reporters in the park, adding there were "no specific credible threats directed at New York or the July Fourth celebrations."

Lieutenant Mark Torre, commander of the police bomb squad, said there was nothing to indicate the device was "put in this area with a specific intent to harm any individual" and that evidence showed it was not meant to be detonated by someone stepping on it.

He said the device, which was believed to have been in the park for at least a day, "may have not gone off at an earlier time and was just left there."

The 778-acre (315-hectare) park in the heart of Manhattan is a major draw for tourists visiting New York City. The park remained open to visitors following the blast.

But police were checking for any additional explosives in the park, using dogs trained to detect vapor trails left behind by explosives or would-be bombers.

Teams of so-called Vapor Wake Detection dogs were being deployed in New York for the first time as part of stepped-up measures to protect America's most populous city during the holiday weekend.

The enhanced security comes amid heightened U.S. vigilance against potential assaults on public places following deadly attacks during the past week on a Bangladesh cafe, claimed by Islamic State, and at Istanbul's main airport blamed on the militant group.

Bomb squad says Central Park explosion may have been caused by abandoned homemade fireworks Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters: image via NYT Metro Desk @NYTMetro, 3 July 2016

Nearly 120 killed in overnight Baghdad bombings claimed by Islamic State: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 3 July 2016

Their #Ramadan... ... and #IndependenceDay... So close. Do NOT let them fool you. Don't get stabbed in the back.: image via Victor Ericeira, 3 July 2016

Top lawmakers pretend to be confident in fairness of Clinton email probe: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 3 July 2015

Hillary Clinton and her tireless army of understandably stressed-out, acrobatically overcompensating campaign stand-ins (or HillBots) can't seem to stop talking about trust: image via AP Politics @AP_Politics, 3 July 2016

I hope all of you ungrateful millennials remember tomorrow the sacrifices that were made for you #IndependenceDay: image via Bob Owens @bob_owens, 3 July 2016

On the other hand... Here's one way to spend the #FourthofJuly: image via Christian Nightmares @ChristnNitemare, 3 July 2016

For #IndependenceDay: Flag standards, etiquette and use, from our In Custodia Legis blog: image via Library of Congress verified account @librarycongress, 3 July 2016

Russell Lee: Vale, Oregon, Fourth of July 1941

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Citizens of Vale, Oregon take off their hats during the Pledge of Allegiance (radio program) on the Fourth of July

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Ride at the carnival which was part of the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon

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Main street of Vale, Oregon, on the Fourth of July. Vale is one of the shopping centers for the farmers who live and work on the Vale-Owyhee irrigation project.

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One of the floats in the Fourth of July parade, at Vale, Oregon. All floats were of a patriotic nature this year.

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Ride at the carnival which was part of the Fourth of July celebration

Baseball game, part of the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon. The annual Fourth of July celebration has been held in Vale, Malheur County, Oregon, for many years. Formerly the rodeo has been one of the chief attractions, but this section has changed from an exclusively cattleman's country to one of farmers since the Vale-Owyhee irrigation project has attracted farmers principally from the Dust Bowl areas. This year for the first time there was no rodeo and the baseball game became the prime attraction.

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"Batter up" at the baseball game which was part of the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon

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Kids' tug of war at the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon.

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Tug of war at the Fourth of July celebration

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Greased pig race, Fourth of July

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Father with his two daughters on the merry-go-round, one of the carnival attractions at the Fourth of July celebrations

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Men gathered around one of the carnival attractions in Vale, Oregon, at the Fourth of July celebration

Fireworks for sale

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Lunch at carnival stand

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Boys at Fourth of JulyCarnival

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Cold drinks on the Fourth of July

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Police officer, Fourth of July

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Sign in Riverside Park at Vale, Oregon. The picnic on the Fourth of July was in this park. Most of the farmers in this predominantly agricultural area are from the Dust Bowl states and the church has strong influence.

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Youngsters in the park on Fourth of July

Picnic on the Fourth of July

Picnic on the Fourth of July

Motorcycle club member painting a sign on the Fourth of July

Motorcycle racers

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Motorcycle riders at the Fourth of July celebration

Motorcycle club boys rough-housing

A grass fire breaks out on the Fourth of July

Grass fire on the Fourth of July

Fighting a grass fire on Fourth of July

Fighting a grass fire on Fourth of July

Fighting a grass fire on Fourth of July

Tired picnickers

Interlude, after watching the Fourth of July parade

All photos by Russell Lee (1903-1986), Vale, Malheur County, Oregon, July 1941 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

Marion Post Wolcott: A Fourth of July Celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1941