Happy.

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Frescos in Amber Palace in Jaipur, photographed by Tess Newall.

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Aït El-Kaïd mountain village, Algeria. Scanned from the book Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women; 1996; Margaret Courtney-Clarke

When plague survivors fled nearby Aguemoum, one ancestor of the current owner built this small house on a rocky ridge above a narrow gorge, at the heart of Aït El-Kaïd. At the time these photo were taken, Ahmed's 80-year-old mother, who had painted the interior, was dying in an adjoining room. Twenty years earlier, having no daughter to continue the tradition, she had chosen weather-resistant paints for the walls and her ceramics.

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[billyb92]

Marmaris, Turkey

[worldsandemanations]

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Walrus With Ivory Tusks, c. 1950. Inuit Culture. Stone, Ivory and Pigment. 8,3 cm x 17,8 cm x 13,3 cm.

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[batmanbeyondrocks]

Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

[kowabungadoodles]

[vintageeveryday]

A woman helping her friend with her Kangru-Spring-Shu, a pair of boots fitted with springs, ca. 1935. Read more of the story of the shoes here...

[publicdomainreview]

Between the blubber, blood, and cruel destruction of life, there was plenty of time for creation too on a 19th-century whale hunt. @JessicaBoyall1 explores the rich vein of illustration running through the logbooks and journals of Nantucket whalers: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-whaling

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

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Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

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And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

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omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

[the-big-mood]

The process of carefully layering and then cleanly unmolding a rainbow jelly cake

[milksockets]

'microscopic photos of transistors + integrated circuits produced at fairchild semiconductor between 1959 + 1979' in the computer: a history from the 17th century to today - jens müller + julius wiedemann (2023)

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[vintageeveryday]

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (born Evelyn Marie Keller, December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985) was a pioneering American Catholic nun, educator, and computer scientist. She became the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in computer science, awarded in 1965 by the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Read more of her story here...

[nedlittle]

Wildfires in northern Ontario force First Nations to flee

Several wildfires are forcing members of a number of First Nations to flee their homes in northern Ontario.

“I had time to run home and pack a bag and get to the beach where the boats were waiting,” said a member of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins). “We literally had minutes to get on the boats and flee before it took our town. “Once we left my house finally after packing what I could in a pack sack, the fire was right behind our place. We had to run to the beach and once we got there, it was only moments before the fire had jumped over the (train) track and was coming for us.”

it has since been confirmed that namaygoosisagagun first nation has completely burnt to the ground. if you would like to help the community navigate an ongoing crisis, i urge you to donate to the anishinabek nation 7th generation, a registered charity seeking to improve the lives of first nations people. donations are going directly to members of namaygoosisagagun first nation.

if you're canadian, you can e-transfer [email protected]. if you're outside canada, they accept paypal as well. see more information HERE

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Their official website:

Individuals who support the goals and vision of AN7GC can make a donation. The ways to donate: call us, mail your donation, use Paypal or Ca

Their page on CanadaHelps / CanaDon:

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Article published July 14th, 2026