A great Irish poet and singer left us today.
She was beautiful, courageous and wore her heart on her sleeve. She was before her time.
Nothing will ever compare to Sinéad O’Connor.
Rest easy Sinéad.
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
What medieval castle toilets looked like
The first modern flushable toilet was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harrington, who installed one for his godmother, Elizabeth I.
Occasionally, some brave knights would conduct sneak attacks by entering the castle via the shaft connected to the garderobe.
Throughout history, there have been a number of famous people who died on the toilet. Several of them were stabbed from below while in the process of defecating.
These people include:
- King Edmund I of England (30 November 1016)
- Jaromír Duke of Bohemia (4 November 1035)
- Godfrey IV Duke of Lower Lorraine (circa 26-27 February 1076)
- Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (4 August 1306)
- Uesugi Kenshin (19 April 1578).
Lui è #AbolfazlAdineh,aveva 16anni, le milizie di #Khamenei gli hanno svuotato l'intero caricatore di un fucile nello stomaco, 24 colpi. Abolfazl era un adolescente della città di Mashhad, nordest #Iran,meta del santuario di Ali. Manifestava per la libertà
@RadioRadicale#Turchia
Questa è #AnastasiiaYalanskaya, attivista per i diritti civili per il Center for Civil Liberties in #Ucraina, uccisa a marzo, appena fuori #Kiev, mentre consegnava cibo ad un canile che era rimasto senza cibo!
Oggi l'organizzazione nella quale si batteva, ha vinto il #NobelPace.
La controffensiva: gli ucraini sfondano, i russi scappano. Abbiamo passato mesi a dedicare articoli (gli analisti interi report) a movimenti sul terreno di meno di 5 chilometri: adesso Kyiv ne ha liberati 90 in 72 ore. Ne ho scritto oggi su @ilfoglio_it https://t.co/HrnGnD4zOF
“Sono pronto a resistere con ogni mezzo, anche a costo della vita, in modo che ciò possa costituire una lezione nella storia ignominiosa di coloro che hanno la forza ma non la ragione.”
#SalvadorAllende
(26/06/1908 - 11 settembre 1973)
The $44 billion for @Twitter could have easily been used to provide food and clean water for the poor, housing for the homeless, shelter for refugees, medical care for the sick, and funds to eradicate serious illnesses. Mr. Musk would have been a hero, not just another capitalist
#Milano, zona Solari. John ha una scopa e un cartello. “Voglio integrarmi lavorando, senza chiedere l’elemosina”. Spazza le foglie dalla pista ciclabile e si offre per piccoli lavoretti. I portinai della via lo salutano con la mano. John ricambia. E sogna un futuro qui.