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Acropolis, Athens (Greece)

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FUTILITY

By Wilfred Owen (WWI soldier and poet)

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Move him into the sun—

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields half-sown.

Always it woke him, even in France,

Until this morning and this snow.

If anything might rouse him now

The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds—

Woke once the clays of a cold star.

Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides

Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

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The Futility statue is a war memorial in Birkenhead, Merseyside erected to commemorate the 88 Old Boys of the Birkenhead Institute school who perished in WWI. Poet Wilfred Owen MC was one of the 88... he was killed just one week before the end of the war.

The statue was unveiled by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2019, replacing the original memorial on the school playing fields after the area was redeveloped.

Unlike most war memorials, the Futility statue was designed to speak to today's generations about the consequences of war, regardless of how justified it may be.

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【黄昏 1861】（evening 1861）

source: bustitaway

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Joan Olsen | Ischia,1953

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The Birth of Venus, 1485, Sandro Botticelli

Medium: canvas,tempera

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Bill Cunningham rode through New York City on a bicycle, camera in hand, looking for joy in the way people dressed. He photographed the ordinary person who understood that fashion is a form of hope. He refused money and fame, caring more about beauty for its own sake.

Bill Cunningham worked as a photographer for the New York Times for nearly 40 years. Beginning in the 1960s, photographer Bill Cunningham became famous for capturing New York City fashion, culture and candid street scenes. To honor his prolific presence among the city’s glitterati and everyday public, the New York Landmarks Conservancy even named him a “living landmark” in 2009.