World Culture Pictorial®

...as common sense is a gift to each soul, as common environment is the inseparable planet, as common desire is to live in a better world. #books #poetry #quote

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World-largest folk festival Oktoberfest originated in 1810 in honor of Bavarian royal wedding, runs longest in 2023
https://t.co/EIbdVZHwO9
#Oktoberfest #beer #Munich #festival #folkfestival

[Matthias Huss @matthias_huss]

Two (!) years of #glacier retreat on Rhonegletscher. Not just a bit of "normal" ice melting but the two most disastrous years for Swiss glaciers in history.
Pics: A. Cremona @VAW_glaciology
@Enlaps_live

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Pregnant wild elephant “walked for days in pain before dying” in India after being fed explosive pineapple, sparks outrage
https://t.co/2fhNuMfb2e
#elephant #elephants #india #animals #wildlife

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61-year-old Napa man stabbed in back by trespasser, pulls out knife to stab him back, subdues attacker for arrest
"It was literally a fight for his life...victim fighting someone nearly half his age."
https://t.co/luZENfWfre
#SelfDefense #napa #TrueStory #news

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Authors Guild +17 prominent writers including Grisham, Connelly, Baldacci, GRRM file class action #lawsuit against #OpenAI for "flagrant and harmful" #copyright infringement, 10,000+ authors sign open letter https://t.co/4SCw5FUgIF #writers #writerscommunity #books #literature

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@AuthorsGuild +17 prominent writers including Grisham, Connelly, Baldacci, GRRM file class action #lawsuit against #OpenAI for "flagrant and harmful" #copyright infringement, 10,000+ authors sign open letter
https://t.co/4SCw5FUgIF
#writers #writerscommunity #books #literature

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Fata Morgana and other natural optical phenomena: floating ship, waterfalls on fire, undulating waves in rocks
https://t.co/Ypt2qYJ7rw

#nature #science #travel #photos

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“We feel like foreigners in our own home” – Venice locals outnumbered by tourists, day-tripper entrance fee to start in 2024
https://t.co/U6mpOhXz0M
#Travel #traveling #Venice #France #UK

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Reader comments:
"Once I started reading the LuCxeed poems I couldn't stop... each poem has its own exquisite impact."
"The page graphics remind me of woodcut prints which are great."
#BooksWorthReading #readingforpleasure #Literature #poetry #life
https://t.co/HnITtbz2wE

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"Numbers are sketched into tones Equations stretched into tunes I’m fond of faithful math I hear my heart humming lyrical poems" from Math and Music by LuCxeed https://t.co/HOXdoEMDgS #math #mathematics #music #poetry #poetrylovers #BooksWorthReading #Literature #LiteraturePosts

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Self-driving cars sits in cement waiting for rescue; “brilliant” placement of a traffic cone; do they think firetrucks should yield to them? https://t.co/FlfgUN26Ah
#AutonomousVehicles

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Blue Bird, lucky birds, continue to cheerfully chirp, twitter, sing among trees and flowers though lost duel with “X”: one from nature, the other from where?
https://t.co/3N2QOZ2KUc
#TwitterBird #TwitterX #twitter @martingrasser @toddwaterbury @angyche #design #designtwitter

[martin grasser @martingrasser]

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird

This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,

The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

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“A tear may be so near…life is still worthwhile, if you just smile”: Tony Bennett (1926-2023), World War II veteran and music legend spanning 7 decades https://t.co/QcgXIuToU6 #TonyBennett #bennett #music #video

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51-year-old Australian sailor and dog survives two months stranded at sea by eating raw fish and drinking rain water https://t.co/pqCKKP3SCu #truestory #sailing #Australia #sundayvibes

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"Good day" fr p36 of "Well Well - Quest and Design ii". Exclusive. Debut. new book release "Simplicity delivers focus, precision, releases us from anxiety to have more good time" https://t.co/WKA8ntTKyN #SundayFunday #simplejoys #BooksWorthReading #Literature #LiteraturePosts

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NASA “stellar nursery” photo celebrates James Webb Telescope one year anniversary: formation of 50 young stars all similar in size to the Sun “like a newborn first stretching her arms out into the world”

https://t.co/85lSs322x7
#nasa #jameswebb #photo #space #photography

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

I always used to follow back genuine nature lovers out of courtesy, but it's been harder to keep up in the last couple of years, so if you love nature & would like me to follow you back please retweet this upside down Blue Tit in blossom from my Somerset garden. 😊♥️🐦

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Musk’s trick tweet treat: classic verse Cao Zhi (AD 192-232) composed within 7 steps on his brother Cao Pi’s order about brothers without the word “brother”
https://t.co/lnjpplXZQX
#ElonMusk #elon #Musk #poem #Verse