it’s a little bit of both…
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it’s a little bit of both…
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Red night vision lights, green laser pointers, tripods and telescopes in faint silhouette surround intrepid sky gazers embarked on the 10th annual Iran Messier Marathon. Completing the marathon requires viewing all 110 objects in 18th century French astronomer Charles Messier’s catalog in one glorious dusk-to-dawn observing run. As daunting as it sounds, there are often favorable weekend dates for northern hemisphere marathoners to complete the task that fall on nearly moonless nights near the spring equinox. With the Milky Way as a backdrop, this group of about 150 astronomy enthusiasts conducted their 2011 marathon on such a night in April from the desert area of Seh Qaleh, in eastern Iran.
A sedated Black Rhino is carried by military helicopter away from a poaching area in the hills of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, to a new home. The move was organised by World Wildlife Fund who transported the herd of rhinos 1,000 miles to fresh breeding ground in the northern Limpopo province first by helicopter then by trucks.
Picture: EPA/GREEN RENAISSANCE/www.greenrenaissance.co.za
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Little shafts of light that spill from Heaven….
Letter from British Ambassador in Moscow to Lord Pembroke at the Foreign Office, April 1943
Philadelphia All Stars “Let’s clean up the ghetto” - Danny K edit.
let this one play
Saykoji is a rapper from Balikpapan, Kalimantan.
Athens Polytechnic occupation 2008-9
These have, until now, been times of acquiescence, apathy and the triumph of greed, belligerent hyper-materialism and fatuity. But in Athens, young people and trade unionists mounted a grand refusal of all these hegemonies. When I covered the polytechnic occupation and riots that followed the shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, I was astonished by the intelligence of the rebels in their endless candlelit discourse. Their uprising was also against the virtual culture of blogging instead of doing. One told me: “We are an assertion of the real thing against virtuality”
Did not know that.