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A girl in Maracaibo selling goods for Palm Sunday observance. Today is Palm Sunday.

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Machu Picchu, Peru.

Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

The old Jewish cemetery near Waibstadt, Germany. The gravestones in this part date from the 19th century; the photo shows a typical section of that part of the cemetery.

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Beautiful unfurling leaf of a Polystichum setiferum ('Herrenhausen'). Focus stack of 21 photos.

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A modernist staircase of the BGK Building in Gdynia, Poland.

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BUT WE HAD MUSIC

Right this minute
across time zones and opinions
people are
making plans
making meals
making promises and poems

while

at the center of our galaxy
a black hole with the mass of
four billion suns
screams its open-mouth kiss
of oblivion.

Someday it will swallow
Euclid’s postulates and the Goldberg Variations,
swallow calculus and Leaves of Grass.

I know this.

And still
when the constellation of starlings
flickers across the evening sky,
it is enough

to stand here
for an irrevocable minute
agape with wonder.

It is eternity.

By Maria Popova Read more at the Marginalian

Portrait of a geometric moray (Gymnothorax griseus), Red Sea, Egypt. This moray eel belongs to the family Muraenidae and is found throughout the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea at depths to 40 metres (130 ft). Its length is up to 65 centimetres (26 in).

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Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, taken by William Gottlieb at the Downbeat Club, New York, 1947. Today, 110 years ago, she was born in Philadelphia.

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View towards Signal Hill at night, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

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Male Chocó grasshopper (Opaon varicolor). A wingless short-horned grasshopper endemic to the Andes in Colombia.

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Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount Jerusalem.

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Landscape of Pitigliano, Tuscany.

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