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Desperation (Where Go the Boats?)
.Migrants and refugees keep warm around a bonfire as they wait to enter a registration camp after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija. The flow of refugees and other migrants from...
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Stevie Smith: Songe d’Athalie (Vision prémonitoire)
.Skies above Aleppo: photo by Baraa Al-Halabi, 16 November 2015I'm muslim, ISIS also killed my Muslim friends ISIS against Humanity Pray for the French people who stood with the Syrian Revolution:...
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Things Fall Apart
.Jamileh Heydari breastfeeds her son Matin as she and her family of five try to enter Austria after traveling from Afghanistan: photo by Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times, 10 November 2015Principalities...
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The Sky Is Crying
.Every. Single. Day. Thankful for this. #berkeleyside: image via Jeanie Choe @jeajea, 21 November 2015Alors oui, le Ciel est profondément en pleurs, on dirait encore mieux, le Monde est en Larmes but...
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Unspeakable
.Stranded Iranian migrant Hamid, 34, an electrical engineer from the Iranian town of Sanandij, sits on rail tracks in front of Macedonian riot police guarding the borderline between Greece and...
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There must be something
.P. Ballantine and Sons advertisement for Ballantine's Beer: Life, 30 November 1953 (Gallery of Graphic Design)We'll be doing the traditional Thanksgiving thing this year, Mother will stuff the...
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Ray Bradbury: There Will Come Soft Rains
.Global Thermonuclear War: photo by Delyth Angharad, 25 July 2013In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid...
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Wallace Stevens: Of Mere Being
.Chinese man wears a protective face mask as he passes by the CCTV building on a day of heavy pollution on Monday in Beijing, China. China’s capital and many cities in the northern part of the country...
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Stevie Smith: Oblivion
.Two life-size Victorian style dolls ride the London tube this morning. The creepy pair popped up at commuter hotspots across the capital to mark the launch of the world's first psychological theme...
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Alice Meynell: Parentage
.Civilians photographed in a damaged building in Syria's northern city of Aleppo following a reported air strike by government forces on Monday: photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP, 7 December 2015..."When...
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Hovering in a cage over fog
.Trotton Common. The whole common is covered in spider's webs and in the early morning light the dew-laden threads look almost frost like, a truly magical sight: photo by John Dominick, 19 August...
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The old country
.Boy with pudding bowl haircut, St Stephen's Green, Dublin: photo by Elinor Wiltshire, 1964 (National Library of Ireland)They never tired of talking of itthe way one might talk about not another...
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Neoteny / Privilege
.96-foot Christmas tree burns down at Westin South Coast Plaza: image via The Daily Pilot @The Daily Pilot, 14 December 2015Neotenythe mad 96 foot christmas tree of the destiny of the species burnsand...
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Philip Larkin: Aubade
.An elevation in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, covered in a thick layer of fog, on Monday. Due to high levels of NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) in the air over the city and a certain...
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Joseph Ceravolo: A Piece of Glass / Stephen Ratcliffe: 12.20
.Kashmiris peel the bark off wicker sticks on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, the largest city in the Kashmir Valley. The sticks are used to make traditional fire pots for warmth: photo by Farooq...
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The Lie Behind the Timeline: How 2015 Was Framed
. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, European Union foreign policy chief...
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Eternal Youth
. Eternal Youth [Stoke Newington]: photo by duncan c, 2 November 2013The dark side:The secret world of sports doping: Al Jazeera investigation raises questions about whether sports heroes are linked to...
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Catch Them If You Can
.Martin Shkreli, in sunglasses, departs US federal court in Brooklyn after arraignment on Thursday: photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters, 17 December 2015"What whiteness, what candour?"The disease of...
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John Clare: Clock-a-Clay
.Seven-spot Ladybird. As I cut the grass in our UK front garden I spot a ladybird crawling up the Contorted Hazel Tree to warm itself in the early Spring sun. An insect to strike fear into tiny Aphid...
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Evictions
."The Battering Ram has done its work". Eviction of Thomas Birmingham, tenant of the Vandeleur Estate, near Moyasta, County Clare. photo by Robert French, c. July 1888 (Lawrence Photograph Collection,...
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