Deedella

conservator in training

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Epilogue: The Big Fake World Ada Limón

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My twenty fifth birthday

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The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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You With the Crack Running Through You by Kim Addonizio

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The Suitor by Jane Kenyon

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World Cup with my homies

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Buttercream Joy Sullivan

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The Death of William the Conqueror, 1885 by Albert Maignan (French, 1845–1908)

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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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Andrew Wyeth - "Winter Carnival" (1985)

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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”

— George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

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