World-largest folk festival Oktoberfest originated in 1810 in honor of Bavarian royal wedding, runs longest in 2023
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#Oktoberfest #beer #Munich #festival #folkfestival
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Two (!) years of #glacier retreat on Rhonegletscher. Not just a bit of "normal" ice melting but the two most disastrous years for Swiss glaciers in history.
Pics: A. Cremona @VAW_glaciology
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Pregnant wild elephant “walked for days in pain before dying” in India after being fed explosive pineapple, sparks outrage
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#elephant #elephants #india #animals #wildlife
61-year-old Napa man stabbed in back by trespasser, pulls out knife to stab him back, subdues attacker for arrest
"It was literally a fight for his life...victim fighting someone nearly half his age."
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#SelfDefense #napa #TrueStory #news
Authors Guild +17 prominent writers including Grisham, Connelly, Baldacci, GRRM file class action #lawsuit against #OpenAI for "flagrant and harmful" #copyright infringement, 10,000+ authors sign open letter worldculturepictorial.com/wc… #writers #writerscommunity #books #literature
Fata Morgana and other natural optical phenomena: floating ship, waterfalls on fire, undulating waves in rocks
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#nature #science #travel #photos
“We feel like foreigners in our own home” – Venice locals outnumbered by tourists, day-tripper entrance fee to start in 2024
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#Travel #traveling #Venice #France #UK
Reader comments:
"Once I started reading the LuCxeed poems I couldn't stop... each poem has its own exquisite impact."
"The page graphics remind me of woodcut prints which are great."
#BooksWorthReading #readingforpleasure #Literature #poetry #life
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"Numbers are sketched into tones Equations stretched into tunes I’m fond of faithful math I hear my heart humming lyrical poems" from Math and Music by LuCxeed worldculturepictorial.com/lu… #math #mathematics #music #poetry #poetrylovers #BooksWorthReading #Literature #LiteraturePosts
Self-driving cars sits in cement waiting for rescue; “brilliant” placement of a traffic cone; do they think firetrucks should yield to them? worldculturepictorial.com/wc…
#AutonomousVehicles
Blue Bird, lucky birds, continue to cheerfully chirp, twitter, sing among trees and flowers though lost duel with “X”: one from nature, the other from where?
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#TwitterBird #TwitterX #twitter @martingrasser @toddwaterbury @angyche #design #designtwitter
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Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
“A tear may be so near…life is still worthwhile, if you just smile”: Tony Bennett (1926-2023), World War II veteran and music legend spanning 7 decades worldculturepictorial.com/wc… #TonyBennett #bennett #music #video
51-year-old Australian sailor and dog survives two months stranded at sea by eating raw fish and drinking rain water worldculturepictorial.com/wc… #truestory #sailing #Australia #sundayvibes
"Good day" fr p36 of "Well Well - Quest and Design ii". Exclusive. Debut. new book release "Simplicity delivers focus, precision, releases us from anxiety to have more good time" worldculturepictorial.com/qu… #SundayFunday #simplejoys #BooksWorthReading #Literature #LiteraturePosts
NASA “stellar nursery” photo celebrates James Webb Telescope one year anniversary: formation of 50 young stars all similar in size to the Sun “like a newborn first stretching her arms out into the world”
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#nasa #jameswebb #photo #space #photography
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I always used to follow back genuine nature lovers out of courtesy, but it's been harder to keep up in the last couple of years, so if you love nature & would like me to follow you back please retweet this upside down Blue Tit in blossom from my Somerset garden. 😊♥️🐦
Divers and fish or octopus meet now and then: how to recognize one another in vast waters, billions swimming… Karma? Reincarnation?
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