#Marble

Pale Blue Dot or Blue MarbleIn words of Carl Sagan-"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you
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Your daily reminder that public commemoration (statuary and... plaquary?) is not at all about history and serves no record-keeping function whatsoever.Public acts of commemoration signal from a position of power,
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Every now and again I enjoy one of those fun things, even more so when there isn't an odd chain letter format for it all. I'm going to start out
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Chxta the article lacks substance, nonsensical and meaningless. There is a difference between nation building and a business venture. Do you want Nigeria to wait until industries spring up in
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Hijacking of architecture: Mughals#Thread 1/15So first time when I visited place called Mandu, I was told that it's the center of How glory of Mughals started. But the most striking
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I guess Iโ€™ll post the thing I made last night. Itโ€™s a mix of mostly OCs and favorite characters. Most of you wonโ€™t recognize any besides me, Sayori, Connor,Mirha, and
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best restaurants in bham: a thread best brunch: Soho Social, Five Bar, Black Market, Big Bad Breakfast, The Flying Biscuit, Over Easy, The Southern, Ruby Sunshine best seafood: Automatic Seafood,
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The Basilica Ulpia towered over Trajan's Forum complex, the architectural culmination of all the imperial fora. Completed in 112 AD with construction overseen by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, it
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it's always "poor people food" that offends people most.https://twitter.com/Architecturpic/status/1280467722132795392 lol that account is all like "look at how depressing capitalist architecture is" & then they p
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On 26 April 1966, an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale ripped through Tashkent, devastating the historic city. 300,000 people were left homeless, & the city had to be
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The original statue of King Carol I in Bucharest was created in 1939 by the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Meลกtroviฤ‡. On December 31, 1947, the communist government took down the
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I spent some time today reading The NandO archives from May, 1895, when the Confederate Monument was dedicated here. Read coverage of that and from the days surrounding the dedication.
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To honour the memory of the 1,514 lives lost on Titanic I wanted to try and find another local connection that may help bridge the widening gap of time between
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This is the clearest account I've seen of conduct by federal agents that, if accurate, seems plainly beyond the bounds of any plausible statutory authority. Deeply, deeply concerning.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/portland-federa
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Located in SF's Tenderloin, @GAMH has served as a popular live music performance venue since 1972. Itโ€™s post-1906 earthquake, Renaissance/Baroque-influenced building has a 5,000 sq. ft. hall and elaborately decorated
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the untamed/mdzs characters as backpacks - a back to school thread wei wuxian:-extra af.-gets asked about his bag ALL the time.-"hanguang-juuuun ;) my bag can light up. am i also
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