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Wednesday 24 January 2018

flash burns: the headlights of the war god are eyewash in men's eyes / wyatt: avysing the bright bemes / rip tinky winky gone to a better siberia

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DSC00954 | by Xaris P / (Haris P)

DSC00954: photo by xaris p, 16 January 2018

People's shadows are cast on a wall at sunset in the neighborhood of Chicharrones in Santiago, Cuba, Jan. 22, 2018. #APPhoto @AP_respinosa: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 23 January 2018



Turkey’s T-129 helicopters hit PYD/PKK targets in Afrin  #OliveBranchOperation #Turkey #Syria #AfrinOperasyonu #Afrin: image via Turkish Trade News@trtradenews, 24 January 2018

Thomas Wyatt: Fruitless Fruit ("Avysing the bright bemes of these fayer Iyes")

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Fruit (hips) of Rosa pimpinellifolia, growing in Newborough Warren, 16 October
: photo by Velela, 2006

Avysing the bright bemes of these fayer Iyes
...where he is that mine oft moisteth and washeth
...the werid mynde streght from the hert dep[ar]teth
...for to rest in his woroldly p[ar]adise
And fynde the swete bitter vnder this gyse
...what webbe he hath wrought well he p[er]ceveth
...whereby with him self on love he playneth
...that spurreth with fyer and bridlith w[i]th Ise
Thus is it in suche extremitie brought
...in frossen though[t] nowe and nowe it stondeth in flame
...twyst misery and welth twist ernest and game
    But few glad and many dyvers thought
    with sore repentance of his hardines
    of suche a rote cometh ffruyte fruytles

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542): Avysing the bright bemes of these fayer Iyes: transcription by Richard Harrier (1975) from British Library Egerton MS 2711, fol. 22

Paris Fashion Mabille Backstage

 A model is being made up before the presentation of French fashion designer Alexis Mabille's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2018 fashion collection, in Paris, Tuesday, Jan.23, 2018.: photo by Francois Mori/AP, 23 January 2018

Paris Fashion Mabille Backstage

A model is being made up before the presentation of French fashion designer Alexis Mabille's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2018 fashion collection, in Paris, Tuesday, Jan.23, 2018.: photo by Francois Mori/AP, 23 January 2018

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Rose hips, Sierra de Valdemeca, Cuenca, Spain: photo by Retama, 29 October 2007


Mirando 'l sol de' begli occhi sereno,
Ove è chi spesso i miei depinge e bagna,
Dal cor l' anima stanca si scompagna 
Per gir nel paradiso suo terreno.
Poi, trovandol di dolce e d' amar' pieno,
Quant' al mondo si tesse opra d' aragna
Vede; onde seco e con Amor si lagna,
Ch' à sí caldi gli spron, sí duro 'l freno.
Per questi estremi duo, contrari e misti,
Or con voglie gelate, or con accese
Stassi cosí fra misera e felice.
Ma pochi lieti, e molti penser tristi;
E 'l piú si pente de l' ardite imprese:
Tal frutto nasce di cotal radice.

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374): Canzoniere CLXXIII 

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Rose hip: photo by Elucidate, 2008

Untitled | by noppadol.maitreechit

Untitled: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 23 January 2018


The gradual repatriation of more than 680,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar from Bangladesh, scheduled to begin Tuesday, has likely been delayed: | Photo @ManishSwarup: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 23 January 2018

Bangladesh Myanmar Rohingya

 A Rohingya walks towards his shelter carrying fire wood on his shoulder at Balukhali refugee camp 50 kilometres (32 miles) from, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Myanmar says it's ready for a gradual repatriation of Muslim Rohingya refugees chased out by the Buddhist-majority country's military. Bangladesh says it's preparing for the transfer, but it might need more time as more than 680,000 Rohingya Muslims are now living in sprawling and squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.: photo by Manish Swarup/AP, 23 January 2018

Bangladesh Myanmar Rohingya
  
A Rohingya walks towards his shelter carrying fire wood on his shoulder at Balukhali refugee camp 50 kilometres (32 miles) from, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Myanmar says it's ready for a gradual repatriation of Muslim Rohingya refugees chased out by the Buddhist-majority country's military. Bangladesh says it's preparing for the transfer, but it might need more time as more than 680,000 Rohingya Muslims are now living in sprawling and squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.: photo by Manish Swarup/AP, 23 January 2018



 Denise Lindstrom, a 49-year-old homeless woman, sits in a wheelchair at a homeless encampment on the Santa Ana River trail today in Anaheim, Calif. Authorities on Monday told the homeless living in the encampment that it is being closed down. | Photo @jaethephotog: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 23 January 2018

Cuba Daily Life 
Children play with a kite in the neighborhood of Chicharrones in Santiago, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP, 23 January 2018

Cuba Daily Life

Children play with a kite in the neighborhood of Chicharrones in Santiago, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP, 23 January 2018

Lebanon Garbage Crisis

A worker holds trash as he cleans a shore from garbage, days after an extended storm battered the Mediterranean country, at the Zouq Mosbeh coastal town, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Lebanon's festering trash crisis came crashing ashore this week, after residents woke up to find a powerful winter storm had laid a mantle of waste at a beach just a few minutes' drive north of the capital, Beirut. Lebanon used to pride itself on its sparkling Mediterranean coastline, but its coastal landfills have polluted the sea with trash.: photo by Hussein Malla/AP, 23 January 2018

 Lebanon Garbage Crisis

A worker holds trash as he cleans a shore from garbage, days after an extended storm battered the Mediterranean country, at the Zouq Mosbeh coastal town, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Lebanon's festering trash crisis came crashing ashore this week, after residents woke up to find a powerful winter storm had laid a mantle of waste at a beach just a few minutes' drive north of the capital, Beirut. Lebanon used to pride itself on its sparkling Mediterranean coastline, but its coastal landfills have polluted the sea with trash.: photo by Hussein Malla/AP, 23 January 2018

Israel Pence

 U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 23 January 2018

 Israel Pence

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 23 January 2018

Israel Palestinians Pence

 Palestinians clash with Israeli troops following a protest against a U.S. President Mike Pence protest visit to Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Majdi Mohammed/AP, 23 January 2018

Israel Palestinians Pence

Palestinians clash with Israeli troops following a protest against a U.S. President Mike Pence protest visit to Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.: photo by Majdi Mohammed/AP, 23 January 2018 

The intruder. Munich, Germany. 2017 | by Davide Albani


Philippines Volcano

 Residents, wearing masks, go on their daily business as Mayon volcano's eruption plunge some townships in darkness Monday, Jan. 22, 2018 in Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most active volcano erupted Monday prompting the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology to raise the Alert level to 4 from last week's alert level 3.: photo by Dan Amaranto/AP, 22 January 2018

 Philippines Volcano

Residents, wearing masks, go on their daily business as Mayon volcano's eruption plunge some townships in darkness Monday, Jan. 22, 2018 in Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most active volcano erupted Monday prompting the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology to raise the Alert level to 4 from last week's alert level 3.: photo by Dan Amaranto/AP, 22 January 2018 

Bangladesh Rohingya Repatriations

Rohingya children and refugees raise their hands and shout that they won't go back to Myanmar during a demonstration at Kutupalong near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. The gradual repatriation of more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar from Bangladesh, scheduled to begin Tuesday, has been postponed amid widespread fears that refugees would be forced to return, a Bangladesh official said Monday.: photo by Manish Swarup/AP, 22 January 2018

Bangladesh Rohingya Repatriations

 Rohingya children and refugees raise their hands and shout that they won't go back to Myanmar during a demonstration at Kutupalong near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. The gradual repatriation of more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar from Bangladesh, scheduled to begin Tuesday, has been postponed amid widespread fears that refugees would be forced to return, a Bangladesh official said Monday.: photo by Manish Swarup/AP, 22 January 2018 


#Bangladesh Rohingya refugee children catch fish at Thankhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district. Photo @uz_munir #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 January 2018

Waiting for Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo to be brought to court - hoping for bail #journalismisnotacrime: image via Jonathan Head @pakhead, 23 January 2018








Scenes from today’s trial of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. They entered the court handcuffed and flanked by police. Both were relaxed and smiling, and listened intently to the proceedings. 


Scenes from today’s trial of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. They entered the court handcuffed and flanked by police. Both were relaxed and smiling, and listened intently to the proceedings. 


This is my friend and colleague, Kyaw Soe Oo, carrying his 2-year-old daughter during court hearing today. He's a brave journalist arrested while doing his job. He should be able hug and kiss his daughter without handcuffs. He should be free.





scrumworld now desolate - 'the prophet* hath departed!'
* tinky winky - had we but known!


 

Reuters journalist Wa Lone, also in handcuffs, hustled through the media scrum by police. He and Kyaw Soe Oo face a 14-year sentence under the Official Secrets Act



California Homeless Encapment

A faded American flag hangs outside a tent pitched on the Santa Ana River trail as a homeless man who declined to give his name walks into the tent Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. Southern California authorities on Monday went tent to tent telling the homeless living in an encampment that the large riverbed encampment some have called home for years is being closed down.: photo by Jae C. Hong/AP, 22 January 2018

California Homeless Encapment

A faded American flag hangs outside a tent pitched on the Santa Ana River trail as a homeless man who declined to give his name walks into the tent Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. Southern California authorities on Monday went tent to tent telling the homeless living in an encampment that the large riverbed encampment some have called home for years is being closed down.: photo by Jae C. Hong/AP, 22 January 2018

California Homeless Encapment

Denise Lindstrom, a 49-year-old homeless woman, sits in a wheelchair with tearful eyes in front of a moving truck in an homeless encampment on the Santa Ana River trail Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. The truck was provided by a nonprofit organization to help homeless people recycle to pay for their storage as the city plans to shut down the encampment.: photo by Jae C. Hong/AP, 22 January 2018

California Homeless Encapment

Denise Lindstrom, a 49-year-old homeless woman, sits in a wheelchair with tearful eyes in front of a moving truck in an homeless encampment on the Santa Ana River trail Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. The truck was provided by a nonprofit organization to help homeless people recycle to pay for their storage as the city plans to shut down the encampment.: photo by Jae C. Hong/AP, 22 January 2018

Turkey Syria

Turkish Army soldiers prepare their tanks next to empty shells at a staging area in the outskirts of the village of Sugedigi, Turkey, on the border with Syria, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. The Turkish offensive on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in Syria, codenamed Operation Olive Branch, started on Saturday, heightening tensions in the already complicated Syrian conflict and threatening to further strain ties between NATO allies Turkey and the United States.: photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP, 22 January 2018

Turkey Syria

Turkish Army soldiers prepare their tanks next to empty shells at a staging area in the outskirts of the village of Sugedigi, Turkey, on the border with Syria, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. The Turkish offensive on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in Syria, codenamed Operation Olive Branch, started on Saturday, heightening tensions in the already complicated Syrian conflict and threatening to further strain ties between NATO allies Turkey and the United States.: photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP, 22 January 2018


#Turkey - A Turkish soldier stands on a tank near the Syrian border at Hassa, in Hatay province as part of the #OliveBranchOperation Photo @ozannkose #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 January 2018 


#Turkey Kilis resident Fevziye Demir hugs her father after a rocket fired from Syria hit her house in Kilis, at the border with Syria. Photo @Kilicbil #AFP #OliveBranchOperation: image via AFP Photo @AFPPhoto, 23 January 2018

 

#Turkey Syrian rockets kill two in Turkey as Ankara fights Kurd militia #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 January 2018

 

#Turkey Syrian rockets kill two in Turkey as Ankara fights Kurd militia #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 January 2018

 

#Turkey Syrian rockets kill two in Turkey as Ankara fights Kurd militia #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 January 2018


"US pressures Turkey on Syria push, Erdogan defiant" Photo @ozannkosee #AFP:: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 January 2018
 

#AFP Picture taken by @ozannkosee shows Turkish tanks parked near the Syrian border at Hassa today. #OliveBanch: image via Aurellia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 24 January 2018


Syrian Kurds demonstrate outside of the UN office in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, against a military operation by the Turkish army against the Kurdish YPG forces in Syria's Afrin. Photo @safinphoto Kilicbil #AFP #OliveBranchOperation: #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 January 2018
 

 "We have seen doves with olive branches in the mouth but never seen olive branch attached to F-16 fighter jets" #OliveBranch Operation #Afrin #Turkey: image via Baxtiyar Goran @BaxtiyarGoran, 20 January 2018

 

 "We have seen doves with olive branches in the mouth but never seen olive branch attached to F-16 fighter jets" #OliveBranch Operation #Afrin #Turkey: image via Baxtiyar Goran @BaxtiyarGoran, 20 January 2018
 

 72 Turkish jets for Turkey's 72 martyrs 72 Turkish jets commemorate 72 martyrs of Operation Euphrates Shield by taking part in ongoing #OliveBranch Operation: image via ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) @anadoluagency,  24 January 2018


The Turkish army with #FSA started to enter #Afrin land after they crossed the Turkish borders #OliveBranch Operation #ZeytinDaliHarekati: image via Asaad Hanna @AsaadHannaa, 21 January 2018



 Turkey-backed fighters liberate more villages in Syria Turkish army, Syrian opposition seized 16 targets on the fourth day of Turkey’s #OliveBranchOperation: image via ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) @anadoluagency,  24 January 2018



Why don't people want to understand the right of Turkiye to protect her own borders while the U.S.A. coming to the Middle East and invade transoceanic countries for their own security? That is our right granted by international law. #OliveBranchOperation: image via Horizon AKDENIZ @ufukadenizz, 22 January 2018

 
The #PYD attacking #Riyhanli city inside Turkey by missiles. #OliveBranchOperation #ZeytinDaliHarekati: image via Asaad Hanna @Asaad Hannaa, 21 January 2018



BREAKING: Third Turkish soldier killed in Syria’s #Afrin dentified as Spec. Sergeant Mehmet Muratdağı, assigned to the 1st Commando Brigade (Kayseri). #OliveBranchOperation  : image via e-Amyna @e_amyna, 23 January 2018



 Turkish President #Erdogan receives information about the status of the #OliveBranch Operation from the Operation Center via video conference: image via EHA News @eha_news, 22 January 2018

 
  
Turkish President #Erdogan receives information about the status of the #OliveBranch Operation from the Operation Center via video conference: image via EHA News @eha_news, 22 January 2018
 

Aleppo and Mosul are lost cities of Turks and people of these cities still miss the golden days of rule of Ottomans. This is the time for Turkey to reclaim all lost lands. #OliveBranch Operation: image via Sideeque @sideeque96, 22 January 2018



#Map #Syria - #FSA (Opposition) backed by Turkish forces advancing in #Bulbul area in north of #Afrin. #Aleppo: image via archic civilians @archiciviians, 22 January 2018



Map shows the controlled power around #Afrin. Blue is Euphrates Shield area. Red is Assad regime. Green is #FSA in #Idlib. @AfrinOperasyonu #OliveBranchOperation: image via Asaad Hanna @Asaad Hannaa, 21 January 2018
 

#Aleppo #Afrin #FSA with support of #TSK entered in #Syria and captured Şankal village. Now, heavy clashes in the area as #SDF launched a counterattack: Image va Suriyak @Suriyakmaps, 21 January 2018
   
 

Picture taken after a rocket attack by the Syrian government forces on the city of Arbeen: a man cries after his house was destroyed in the bombing: photo by Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2, 19 January 2018 

 

Picture taken after a rocket attack by the Syrian government forces on the city of Arbeen: a boy looks out the window of a destroyed house: photo by Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2, 19 January 2018



SYRIA - Children look at a building that was damaged in a missile attack in Arbeen, eastern Ghouta. photo by Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 January 2018


SYRIA - A girl holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a make-shift hospital following a reported gas attack on the rebel-held besieged town of Douma on the outskirts of Damascus Photo @hasanmohammed89 #AFP : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 January 2018

Philippines Volcano

Mayon volcano erupts for the second straight day as lava cascades down its slopes Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most active volcano ejected a huge column of lava fragments, ash and smoke in another thunderous explosion at dawn Tuesday, sending thousands of villagers back to evacuation centers and prompting a warning that a violent eruption may be imminent.: photo by Bullit Marquez/AP, 22 January 2018

Philippines Volcano

Mayon volcano erupts for the second straight day as lava cascades down its slopes Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most active volcano ejected a huge column of lava fragments, ash and smoke in another thunderous explosion at dawn Tuesday, sending thousands of villagers back to evacuation centers and prompting a warning that a violent eruption may be imminent.: photo by Bullit Marquez/AP, 22 January 2018


Philippines raises alert level at its Mayon volcano, prompting authorities to close all schools and urge residents to stay indoors Photo Romeo Ranoco: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures. 24 January 2018
 Philippines Volcano

Mayon volcano spews red-hot lava in another eruption as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Lava fountaining regularly from the Philippines' most active volcano has flowed up to 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the crater in a dazzling but increasingly dangerous eruption. Mount Mayon has spewed lava up to 600 meters (2,000 feet) high at times Tuesday and early Wednesday and its ash plumes stretched up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the crater.: photo by Bullit Marquez/AP, 24 January 2018

Philippines Volcano

Mayon volcano spews red-hot lava in another eruption as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Lava fountaining regularly from the Philippines' most active volcano has flowed up to 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the crater in a dazzling but increasingly dangerous eruption. Mount Mayon has spewed lava up to 600 meters (2,000 feet) high at times Tuesday and early Wednesday and its ash plumes stretched up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the crater.: photo by Bullit Marquez/AP, 24 January 2018
 

WEST BANK - A Palestinian protester throws a stone towards Israeli forces during clashes in Hebron as protests erupted following US Vice Presidents reaffirmation of US President Donald Trump's December 6 declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Photo @hazemjbader #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 January 2018

Israel Pence

Israeli Arab members hold signs in protest as security pushes them out as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks in Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.: photo by Ariel Schalit, Pool/AP, 22 January 2018

Israel Pence

Israeli Arab members hold signs in protest as security pushes them out as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks in Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.: photo by Ariel Schalit, Pool/AP, 22 January 2018

 
Vice President Mike Pence touches the Western Wall during his visit to Jerusalem, after President Trump last month recognized the city as the capital of Israel: Photo Ronen Zvulun: image via Reuters Picures @reuterspictures, 23 January 2018



GAZA CITY - Palestinian boys play with a puppy as they sit near their home in a refugee camp in Gaza City. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 January 2018



A Palestinian protester wears a mask during clashes on the outskirts of the West Bank city of #Ramallah near the Jewish settlement of Beit El. Photo @Abbasmomani: image via Aurellia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 23 January 2018


GAZA CITY - A Palestinian man waits for customers at the Fras market in Gaza City. Photo@MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 January 2018 


Deliverance. Zimbabwe, 2017. #photojournalism #documentary #africa #zimbabwe #church #religion #white #onassignment #afp: image via Marco Longari @mlongari, 24 November 2017


 #Rohingya girl gazes at the camera as she applies makeup in Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar #Bangladesh #RoingyaCrisis Photo @mponirhossain @reuterspictures: image via Sunday Times Pictures @STPictures, 22 January 2018

Haiti Trump Reactions
  
A protester in a Lion costume chants anti-Trump Slogans during a protest against President Donald Trump's recent disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.: photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP, 22 January 2018

Haiti Trump Reactions

A protester in a Lion costume chants anti-Trump Slogans during a protest against President Donald Trump's recent disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.: photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP, 22 January 2018

Cyprus Newspaper Attack

A police officer is seen through a brocket window of the Afrika newspaper office with Turkish flags, right, and Turkish Cypriot breakaway flag after it was attacked by supporters of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Turkish occupied northern part of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Editor of Afrika, Sener Levent alleged during an interview with The Associated Press that Monday's attack was prompted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.: photo by Petros Karadjias/AP, 22 January 2018

 Cyprus Newspaper Attack

A police officer is seen through a brocket window of the Afrika newspaper office with Turkish flags, right, and Turkish Cypriot breakaway flag after it was attacked by supporters of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Turkish occupied northern part of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Editor of Afrika, Sener Levent alleged during an interview with The Associated Press that Monday's attack was prompted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.: photo by Petros Karadjias/AP, 22 January 2018

RIP Tinky Winky (gone to a better siberia than our own - and oh! our better selves gone with him!)

Budget Battle

The Peace Monument, also known as the Naval Monument or Civil War Sailors Monument, is seen on the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, as day three of the government shutdown continues Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.: photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP, 22 January 2018

Budget Battle

The Peace Monument, also known as the Naval Monument or Civil War Sailors Monument, is seen on the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, as day three of the government shutdown continues Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.: photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP, 22 January 2018

DSCF6721 | by Pierre Wayser

DSCF6721 [Paris]: photo by Pierre Wayser, 5 September 2012

Untitled | by Dimitris Politis

Untitled: photo by Dimitris Politis, December 2017

#23 R0404427WEB | by Frederik Sadones

#23 R0404427WEB | Bruges 2018: photo by Frederik Sadones, 18 January 2018


The famous panel of spotted horses at Pech Merle created ~25,000 years ago. The positioning of this work may well have been dictated by the rather elegant horse-head shape in the cave wall on the far right #IceAgeArt: image via The Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward_, 21 January 2018 

Tonto's On Meth Again | by Monty May (OBSERVE)

Tonto's On Meth Again: photo by Michael May, 12 July 2013
 
Poland, 1970 | by Lasse Persson


Nooooooo!!! Man, killing us here!! #JAXvsNE the nuns can’t take it... #JAXvsNE: image via Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun, 21 January 2018

Untitled | by billbostonmass

Untitled [Everett, Massachusetts]: photo by Bill, 24 January 2018

R0001384 | by RAB THANASORN
  R0001384 [Bangkok 2018]: photo by THANASORN JANEKANJIT, 5 January 2018
 
R0001384 | by RAB THANASORN
R0001384 | by RAB THANASORN

  R0001384 [Bangkok 2018]: photo by THANASORN JANEKANJIT, 5 January 2018


The actor Simon Barnes, best known for playing Tinky Winky in the BBC children’s series Teletubbies, has died aged 52.: photo by Alamy via The Guardian, 23 January 2018

aye, a prophet came amongst us - and we said - 'No room at the inn!' 'Aus!' 


The Teletubbies have different actors inside them now, the Noo-Noo is a different colour and the episodes are half as long, but the old magic is undeniably still there.: photo by Mitch Jenkins/BBC via The Guardian, 19 December 2017

 Teletubbies was a kids' TV sensation in the late 1990s

 Teletubbies was a kids' TV sensation in the late 1990s.: photo by PA/handout via The Sun, 23 January 2018


Commence the wailing over another #Patriots #SuperBowl appearance!! Come on!! I’m still convinced Tom Brady is a cyborg. Check the man’s DNA!! #JAXvsNE: image via Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun, 21 January 2018

Baby doll | by Spyros Papaspyropoulos


Baby doll | by Spyros Papaspyropoulos


Baby doll | by Spyros Papaspyropoulos

Siberia | by aladeriva


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Fruit of the potato rose (Rosa rugosa), October, on the North Sea island Spiekeroog: photo by Jürgen Nowaldt, 2005