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Photo art based on a picture of a rolling gate at blast furnace 5 in the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyThe original shot used the creative technique of intentional camera movement. This image was mirrored and recomposed to achieve the symmetry effect.

Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Photo by Calob photography

A European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) in flight at Pfyn-Finges, Switzerland. This image was created by merging three successive photographs of the same bird's flight.

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Jacque Fresco (1916 – 2017) was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. He left home at the age of 14 and was Self-taught, He worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design. Fresco wrote and lectured his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. He was the founder of the Venus Project a still active non-profit organization that advocates for a resource-based economy and redesigns civilization.

Image source: Maj Borg, Minttu Mäntynen, Andrea Miconi, CC BY 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nymphs of Chromacris speciosa, Paulo César Vinha State Park, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

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The Things I Love

A butterfly dancing in the sunlight,
A bird singing to his mate,
The whispering pines,
The restless sea,
The gigantic mountains,
A stately tree,
The rain upon the roof,
The sun at early dawn,
A boy with rod and hook,
The babble of a shady brook,
A woman with her smiling babe,
A man whose eyes are kind and wise,
Youth that is eager and unafraid—
When all is said, I do love best
A little home where love abides,
And where there’s kindness, peace, and rest.

Scottie McKenzie Frasier (1884-1964) was an American teacher, poet, author, newspaper editor, lecturer, and socialite. She was born in Talladega, Alabama. She did newspaper work for four years in New York City and while there, she became a suffrage advocate and a member of the League of Women Voters She moved back to  to Dothan, Alabama where she went on to be a co-founder of the Dothan Equal Suffrage Association. Frasier's activities during World War I included being a Four Minute Speaker, a group of volunteers authorized by United States President Woodrow Wilson, to give four-minute speeches on topics given to them by the Committee on Public Information (CPI).

This poem is in the public domain.

Fresh water collecting in the valleys between sand dunes in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. A layer of rock beneath the sand prevents the rain water from dissipating during the rainy season, resulting in a broad expanse of lagoons.

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This stained glass window (1880) located in the Cathédrale Saint-Louis (La Rochelle, France) depicts Joan of Arc. Today is St. Joan's feast day.

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Kishū Kumano iwatake tori by Hiroshige II, a Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e style, depicting the harvesting of iwatake mushrooms (Umbilicaria esculenta) near Kumano in the Kishū Domain.

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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) was a German philosopher often called the “philosopher of pessimism". He is known for his 1818 work "The World as Will and Representation" (expanded in 1844), Schopenhauer was among the first philosophers in the Western tradition to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance. His writings influenced later existential philosophy and Freudian psychology.

Bicycle parked in front of a graffitied building façade with doors, in a street near Kloveniersburgwal, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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The window in a cafe in San Gimignano opens on Valdelsa, in Tuscany (Italy).

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