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[doyoulikevintage]

Record Player

[prarieramblings]

.. and I'm another year older

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Happy New Year everyone!

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My New Years resolution is to get back in touch with people on Tumblr I've lost touch with

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My father died twenty years ago today... In some ways it seems its been a long long time. in others not so long.

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Happy Independence Day to my friends in Malta!

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I'm so restless - but at the same time I don't feel like doing anything.

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.and congratulations to Conchita!

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Congratulations to Austria!

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Spring at last - hopefully - got to 56 F yesterday

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Felimida binza

…is a species of chromodorid nudibranch that occurs in the Atlantic ocean, ranging from Florida to Brazil. Like other chromodorids Felimida binza feeds almost exclusively on sponges.

Classification

Animalia-Mollusca-Gastropoda-Heterobranchia-Euthyneura-Nudipleura-Nudibranchia-Doridoidea-Chromodorididae-Felimida-F. binza

Images: Anne DuPont and Pedro Milet Meirelles

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... and in two days I will be another year older

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Happy New Year everyone!

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Happy Christmas everyone! I'm falling way behind as usual in my Tumblr reading and blogging, but I will try to catch up this week.

[kurt-vonnebutt]

One in five American children is now living in poverty, giving the United States the highest child poverty rate of any developed nation except for Romania.

Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows - Dasani’s Homeless Life (via kurt-vonnebutt)

I’m going to keep reblogging links to this article because it’s shocking, and also maybe 25 minutes from where I grew up, very comfortably, completely unawares.

(via oxfordcommaforever)

[maninthebottle]

From archives of Prague castle, photo by M.Peterka (Source: Lost and Found in Prague)

[appendixjournal]

A reconstruction of the oikoumene, or known world, of Homer’s epic poems by Finnish illustrator Björn Landström, Vägen till Indien (1964). See a somewhat similar medieval depiction of a spherical oikoumene here.