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“The paternoster elevator at Prague City Hall. These door-less, continuously moving lifts are the 1860s invention of Peter Ellis, an architect from Liverpool, and were once popular all over Eastern Europe and Germany before production ended in the 1970s over safety concerns. ” Video courtesy Jada Yuan

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gjume

you ever just instantly develop an irrational fear

my toddler brain immediately thought “in what brutal manner will you be crushed if you don’t get out at the last floor” but it turns out thats not one of the ways they will kill you

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annleckie

OMG I saw one of these in the restored Metropolis and couldn’t figure out how it managed those turns thank you. Plus I had no idea this was a real thing in the real world.

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You probably can’t imagine life without timekeeping. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your car or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of running out.
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viper-wine
and then I hear that one certain song that makes me fall in love with you all over again, and I swear I can feel my heart melt
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