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Some Countries We'll Definitely Be Watching In the Next Round
. Algeria 200/1Algeria. Star Dunes in Algeria. The image was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on October 27, 2012. It was...
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A Dance of Light and Shadow
.Jogo de Futebol entre as selecções de Portugal e Itália, Porto, Portugal: photo by Mario Novais (1899-1967), 1928 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian) The history of soccer...
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19th century greetings card: artist unknownsleepy fox: TC Here are links to the later individual post entries (after 26 June 2014), in alphabetical order:A Dance of Light and ShadowFernando Pessoa:...
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Fernando Pessoa: The falling of leaves that one senses without hearing them fall
. Parque das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Landscape architecture by Francisco Caldeira Cabral (1908-1992): photo by Manuel Silveira Ramos, 2003 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste...
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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen: Eternalization (Se tanto me dói que as...
. Cine-Teatro Império, Lisboa. Edifício projetado pelo Arq. Cassiano Branco (1897-1970) e inaugurado em 1952. Foi desativado na década de 1990 e classificado Imóvel de Interesse Público em 1996...
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Fireworks are like anything else in life, he said
.Blast 2, Crows Landing (Mysterious Camera): photo by efo, 23 June 2014At a barren lot on the edge of Albuquerque, a team of pyro-experts with Western Enterprises Inc. was busy Wednesday dropping...
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John Francis Keith: Oh, Yeah?
.Unidentified subjects, South Philadelphia: photo by John Frank Keith (1863-1947), between 1910 and 1940 (John Frank Keith Collection, Library Company of Philadelphia) Unidentified subjects, South...
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Pack My Trunk
.Advertisement for the Pacific Coast Trunk Store: artist unknown, n.d. (California Business Ephemera Collection, California Historical Society)Packmytrunkwith a whole lot of junkI don't really needin a...
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Pedestrians -- A Problem in Traffic Engineering
.King George V (1865-1936) accosted by a beggar at Epsom Downs on Derby Day: photographer unknown, 1920 (Spaarnestad Photo / Nationaal Archief)They're such an awful nuisance, forever cluttering our...
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Seeing Multiples: Ghosts of Jönköping ("We are somewhere else")
.Tändsticksområdet (Holga): photo by Johan Larsson, 24 February 2014The entire universe is composed of stellar systems. In order to create them nature has only one hundred simple bodiesat its disposal....
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Price reductions
. Price reductions (Vallejo, California): photo by michaelj1998, 13 June 2014In no sphere does a buyer who insists on cheap & nasty get anything else. Admit.-- Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 21...
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"Hello my name is..."
. "Hello my name is..." (school for visually impaired children, Gaza City): photo by Achim Voss, 10 June 2014[To a killer] If you had contemplated the victim’s face And thought it through, you would...
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No Place Like Ohm
. Last Call, George's, Vernalis, California. Argus c3 with long expired (and damaged) technical pan: photo by efo, 22 June 2014After a period of time things start to rot and crumble. Decay is always...
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A Transparency (The word made from broken pieces): "Nobody is asleep in Gaza"
.Palestinians inspect the different rooms of a bombed house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza: photo by Said Khatib/AFP via The Guardian, 9 January 2009I learnt all the words and...
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The meaning of world football
.Car in India with Lionel Messi's number and Barcelona FC colours: photo by Umeshsrinavasan, 29 August 2011After an exciting and hectic round of group stage matches in which the persistent brave...
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While we were away at the circus of representation: Ten minutes and then no...
,Right-wing Israelis burn a Palestinian flag and shout racist slogans during an anti-Palestinian protest at the Gush Etzion junction, next to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, following the...
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Rebuilding the House of Stones: A Meditation Outside the Fertile Grounds Cafe
. Fertile Grounds Cafe: photo by Ayman Morrar, 2008Ayman just came back from his family Home in the West Bank. How's the spirit there?I asked. "Good. Nobody's giving up." Ayman paused, wiping down the...
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Emily Dickinson: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
.Palestinian boys inspect the rubble of a destroyed governmental prison after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip: photo by Eyad Al Baba / APA Images / Zuma, 15 July 2014Tell all...
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Mahmoud Darwish: Silence for Gaza
.Palestinians at Rafah crossing await permission to transport people wounded in the ongoing offensive against the Gaza Strip to Egypt for treatment: photo by Eyad Al Baba / APA Images, 12 July 2014...
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Another stunning sunset: Ilan Pappe: Israel's righteous fury and its victims...
.Israelis sit on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip as smoke rises from the scene of an airstrike: photo by Jim Hollander / EPA, 17 July 2014 My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the...
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