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Alone

From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— Then—in my childhood—in the dawn Of a most stormy life—was drawn From ev’ry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still— From the torrent, or the fountain— From the red cliff of the mountain— From the sun that ’round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold— From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by— From the thunder, and the storm— And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view— - Edgar Allan Poe

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Onrie Radovic (Australian, 1985) - Refuge (2025)

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Onrie Radovic (Australian, 1985), Refuge, 2025. Acrylic on aluminium, 124 x 93 cm.

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The Vancouver Daily Province, BC, November 19, 1946

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Claudio Bravo (1936-2011, Chilean) ~ Lily, 1945

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Claudio Bravo (Chilean, 1936-2011), Lirio [Lily], 1945. Oil on panel, 31 x 18.5 cm.

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The kiss sculpture in Vienna Central cemetery

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The Crooked Forest

This pine grove is one of the most unusual forests in Central Europe. The so-called Crooked Forest (Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located outside Gryfino, West Pomerania, Poland. The grove was planted around 1930, when its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not currently known.