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Today the sun

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This is what my birthday looked like this morning. I'm getting another chance, I think.

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After two days of rain

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Tears running over.

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@catrightsactivist

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he’s free

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I watched this so many times just for the expression when he realises the ground is not as close as first thought.

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^^^ 😂😂😂😂

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Tool use in cats

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On this day, April 4, in 1968, at 6:05 pm, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead while standing on a second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. The Lorraine is now a museum.

“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.”  - MLK

Watercolor woodblock print (mokuhanga) by Annie Bissett.

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Watch Edgar Degas’s printmaking process in action. In this video, MoMA curator Jodi Hauptman and conservator Karl Buchberg explore Degas’s monotype process with printmakers Andrew Mockler and Jennifer Marshall of Jungle Press Editions. 

A Strange New Beauty, featuring approximately 120 monotypes along with some 60 paintings, drawings, pastels, sketchbooks, and prints, opens Saturday.

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Children's author Beverly Cleary on turning 100: 'I didn't do it on purpose'

More than six decades since her first book came out, celebrated children's author Beverly Cleary is marking a milestone, turning 100 in April. TODAY's Jenna Bush Hager spoke with Cleary about such beloved characters as Ramona Quimby and Ralph S. Mouse, and helped give away some of her e-books. Our sponsor Amazon gave away the Kindles for reading them.

 Growing up in rural Oregon, she herself came to books slowly, and didn’t begin reading until second grade. She found children’s books of the time uninteresting.    “Books in those days, back in the 1920s, had been published in England, and the children had nannies and pony carts and they seemed like a bunch of sissies to me,” she told TODAY.

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Yay!

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Happy Birthday, Flannery O'Connor, born on this day in 1925.

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The literary internet started buzzing last week after findings from a new survey described an overwhelming lack of racial and gender diversity in the book publishing industry. Conducted for over a year by the children’s publisher Lee & Low, the Diversity Baseline Survey (DBS)…

“[The headlines] glazed over one of the more subtle aspects of the data, which shows that while the industry employs far more women overall, the difference is smaller at the executive level, with ‘approximately 40% of executives and board members identifying as men or cis-men.’ As the compilers of the DBS report note: “This reflects the reality that males still ascend to positions of power more oven, even in female-dominated industries.”

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hey, this is some really good thinking about a really tough issue, and i think you should read it!

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So do those males ascend through the oven or because of the oven. It's not really clear.

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I’m a staunch populist because I found out about Egon Schiele by browsing the fine art section of AllPosters.com

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Recreation of the Painting “into her book” from Artist Rick Beerhorst. 

I fell in love with the painting as soon as I saw it, the idea of making some pictures came a few days later and Beerhorst himself saw it and liked it. 

the pictures were took in October 2015 by my sister. the girl posing with the red book is me.

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I am in the middle of a Polizie coffee break in the Zurich Airport and I swear not one of them is over the age of 19.