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Optimist: Glass half full
Pessimist: Glass half empty
Grad student: I see you found my tears
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Tavira as seen from the castle walls (first three images), the restaurant "A ver Tavira" and the Gallery palace (bottom two images).
For a split second, I imagined I had already photographed all Portuguese tiles patterns that exist in Tavira. I was wrong.
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Pyramidion of Amenhotep (Huy)
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279-1213 BC. From Saqqara necropolis. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. TR 7-114-24-1
True pyramids (at least the larger ones), as opposed to step pyramids in Egypt were topped by a special stone called a pyramidion, or sometimes a capstone, which was itself a miniature pyramid. It brought the pyramid structure to a point at the same angle and the same proportions as the main body.
The ancient Egyptian word for the pyramidion, which could also sit atop the apex of an obelisk, was ben-benet, named for the sacred Benben stone kept in the temple of Heliopolis, the oldest center of the sun cult in Egypt. During the Old Kingdom, they were usually made of diorite, granite or a very fine limestone which was then covered in gold or electrum.
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Landscape at Valery-sur-Somme by Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
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Words for an Epic Quest, Part I
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Mohamed Aziz, a 72-year-old bookseller, living in Rabat, Morocco, spends 6 to 8 hours a day reading books. Having read over 5000 books in French, Arabic, and English, he remains the oldest bookseller in Rabat, spending more than 43 years in the same location. When asked about leaving his books unattended outside, where they could potentially be stolen, he responded that those who can't read don't steal books, and those who can, aren't thieves.
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Vanity and pride are what most of us tend to think of when we think of ego, but ego is much more than an overinflated sense of self. It can also turn up in feelings of inferiority or self-hatred because ego is any image you have of yourself that gives you a sense of identity—and that identity derives from the things you tell yourself and the things other people have been saying about you that you’ve decided to accept as truth.
Eckhart Tolle
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Tallinn Old Town
Estonia
photos cjmn
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Edmond Duranty by Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
-- Thomas Fuller
(München, Germany)
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The Armor Garniture 1550-55. Artist/maker unknown, German. Attributed patron Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II (ruled 1564–1576).
An armor garniture is a complete suit of armor with a set of exchange elements designed to adapt the basic unit to different uses, such as tournament or battle.
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Chefchaouen, Morocco.
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Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹
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… a zone of darkness between all languages, a black river that swallows words and stories and transforms them.
— Maja Haderlap, Distant Transit: Poems, transl by Tess Lewis, (2014)
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Flamenco dancer by James Durden (Manchester 1878 - 1964)