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We'll Leave a Light On
.Drawing of the Incandescent Light Bulb (page 2 of 2): Thomas Edison, 27 January 1880 (Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, US National Archives) Without it, what savage unsocial nightsOur...
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Bolts (Lucretius: On the Nature of Things)
."#Lightning looks even more amazing from #space!!!!!" RT @OAPlanet: image via Reg Saddler @zaibatsu, 13 December 2014 For if those who have correctly learned that gods lead lives free from care still...
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Robert Walser: The Job Application
.Peterborough, UK.Inside Amazon’s largest distribution warehouse on Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the year: photo by Graeme Robertson for the Guardian, 1 December 2014Esteemed...
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War of the Worlds: Behemoth vs. Leviathan: Everything is everyone's fault
.Keeper Mohamed Doyo leans over to pat female northern white rhino Najin in her pen where she is being kept for observation at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, home to three of the last six northern...
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Praxilla of Sicyon: What I leave behind
.The body of a suspected Ebola victim lies in a street in the town of Koidu in eastern Sierra Leone: photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters via the Guardian, 20 December 2014Loveliest of what I leave behind is...
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Nancy Morejón: Tobacco Worker
.President #RaulCastro: #Cuba not changing communist regime: image via Daily Sabah @DailySabah, 21 December 2014A tobacco worker wrote a poem to death. Amid the smoke and the dry and twisted leaves of...
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John Donne: A nocturnall upon S.Lucies day, Being the shortest day; with...
.Sun's daily path, from summer to winter #solstice... captured with a beer-can pinhole camera!: image via Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell, 21 December 2014Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the...
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The most patriotic picture ever taken of me
.I think I found the most patriotic picture ever taken of me... #Murica #America #Merica #BestCountry: image via Murica Man @AmericaWillWin, 23 December 2014All packed #MURICA: image via lauren_bohnet...
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You (V) (Hölderlin)
.Rock paintings from the Western Cape, Cederberg, South Africa: photo by Jimfbleak, 2007O Earth Mother, who consents to everything, who forgives everything don’t hide like...
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Dishonorable
.In an echo of events last week after the shooting, officers outside the church turn their backs on a video monitor as de Blasio speaks: photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters via The Guardian, 27 December...
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Blank Space
.amazeballs aerial shot of #SF #GoldenGate up in #KarlTheFog via @independentcbh: image via Lil Mike SF @lilmikesf, 29 December 2014A blank space at the deep heart's coremakes the far seem near or is...
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Robert Herrick: To his saviour. The New yeers gift
.Bit of a traffic jam while out on the bike today #Cumbria #sheep: image via Oliver Turvey @OliverTurvey, 29 December 2014That little prettie bleeding part..Of Foreskin send to me:And Ile return a...
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): Euripides: The Chorus to Iphigeneia
.76,000 killed in #Syria last year: image via Belfast Telegraph @BelTel, 1 January 2015(To Iphigeneia) Your hair is scattered light: The Greeks will bind it with petals. And like a little beast,...
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Migratory: 'We are alone'
.BREAKING: #BlueSkyM has sent a distress signal. It has been reported to be carrying 100s of refugees: image via Marine Traffic @MarineTraffic, 30 December 2014 still traveling furtherstill, after the...
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Thomas Campion: Now winter nights enlarge
.The moon right now!! Stunning!! #fullmoon: image via Maaz Khan @DirectorMaazK, 5 January 2015Now winter nights enlarge The number of their houres;And clouds their stormes discharge Upon the...
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The return of the exhausted monarchy
.In the past 20 years, #monarch #butterflies may have lost 165 million acres of habitat -- an area about the size of Texas: image via Indie @RedHouseGarden, 3 January 2015A wonder every year this time...
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Je Suis Virunga
.What are you willing to fight for? What are you willing to die for? Watch @virungamovie and join the fight! #Virunga: image via TheBasementBalcony @basementbalcony, 6 January 2015I trained as an...
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Crusaders -- they're all Charlies
.Roger Freeing Angelica: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1819, oil on canvas, 147 x 190 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)The fear of a 'revolt of Islam'Interwoven with the desire to know and the imagination...
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Inside the No-Go Zone: Exploring the Hidden Secrets of the Brum Caliphate...
. An excellent response to the 'Muslim #Birmingham' #foxnewsfacts story, from @Independent cartoonist @DaveBrownToons: image via I Am Birmingham @IAmBirmingham, 12 January 2015GKN, Screw Factory,...
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Ezra Pound: Canto I: Into the Underworld (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
.Ezra Pound: from Canto I (1915/1925) in A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)Nora Sawyer Poetry Comics from Nora Sawyer, 2013-2014 Canto IAnd then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the...
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