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While you were sleeping this is what the northern lights looked like in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut where Elijah Takkiruk took this photo.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Tavik František Šimon, 1908. “Pont Marie, Paris”

#printmaking #etching #1900s #Paris #TavikFrantišekŠimon
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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crawford peaches, painted by james marion shull, 1909
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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"Step right up! Test your strength!" @ Mahler’s High Striker
i’m so happy for him
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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A faux book cover from around 2013 by the amazing Scarfolk Council blog.

#graphicdesign #bookcover #PenguinBooks #ScarfolkCouncil
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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'Peckham Fish Shop, 1973' by Hector McDonnell

(Private collection)
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱

Coffea arabica - Coffee Plant

Source of the stimulant Caffeine (and you'd be surprised how many medications contain it). Isolated by Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, c1819.

The long, colourful history of coffee - goats, kings, popes...
www.aboutcoffee.org/origins/hist...
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Battistini in Aida
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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500 points if they can put some spin on it and get all three walkers while missing the car 🤣👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Ours terrassant un sanglier (grès, vers 200 ap. J.-C.). La sculpture retrouvée à Neumagen symbolise la vie et la mort. Elle est conservée au Rheinisches Landesmuseum de Trèves en Allemagne.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Significantly milder this morning some places in West Mids are over 18C warmer than this time yesterday!

Shawbury for example very frosty -5.6C yesterday morning this morning 13C! Huge leap.
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Lake Ontario is a tad lumpy today...not as bad as Lake Erie, but putting on a pretty good show! #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Larry says whatsup.
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Tis the season ❄️

Love this one by Pascal Campion.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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It’s always what you dash off when you’re out of ideas that ends up looking better #ceramics #pottery #art
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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A ‘penates’ from Roman Bath - a household deity that protected the home and family. Now part of the museum collections at the Roman Baths in Bath. #RomanBritain #RomanBath
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Guten Morgen Bluesky
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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The brand, known for its canned soups, called Martin Bally’s comments “vulgar, offensive and false.”
Campbell’s Fires Executive For Alleged Racist Rant Claiming Company Products Are For ‘Poor People’
The brand, known for its canned soups, called Martin Bally’s comments “vulgar, offensive and false.”
www.forbes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Panorama Tower
📍Leipzig
📷Harri Schulz - Canon EOS 6D Mark II
#cityscapephotopgraphy #cityscape #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2rHfmnK
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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The Mark of Zorro was released #OTD 1920.
Director: Fred Niblo. #Skyfilms
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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« Se mesurer aux grands hommes du passé. »

Peinture de Jehan Georges Vibert (1840-1902).
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Covered Bridge #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Relief en marbre avec une Victoire tauroctone provenant de la basilique Ulpia du forum de Trajan à Rome. Appartenant aux collections du Louvre, la sculpture a été présentée dans l’exposition « Rome : la cité et l’Empire » au Louvre-Lens.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM