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FINAL RESULT:
Connolly (IND): 914,143 (63.4%)
Humphreys (FG): 424,987 (29.5%)
Gavin (FF): 103,568 (7.1%)
Turnout: 1,656,436
Spoilt: 213,738 (12.9%)
Quota: 721,350
Connolly declared President-elect at Dublin Castle.
#Aras25
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Here's my article about who we are, why we're trapped, why we are heading for planetary collapse, and what we must do to prevent it. It might not be saying much, but I think this is the best thing I've written. theguardian.com/environment/โฆ
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This is fascinating & shows how weak colour information can be on a photo for the brain to fill in the gaps and "colourise" it for you. It's a black & white photo, but overlaid with a thin grid of coloured lines. They're enough to trick your mind into seeing a full colour image
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It is #WorldPhotographyDay
So I thought I'd offer you this.
It's by Julia Margaret Cameron.
Taken in 1867.
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Formally Known As The Bollocks - John Peel Sessions : bit.ly/2Z32JyI He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJ's. Nearly 1000 Peel Sessions now available.
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Wow!!!
Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base, a mechanical realization of the mathematical "Kuramoto model".
Source: UCLA Physics & Astronomy bit.ly/3mhVv1T
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This is incredible. A snowball fight filmed by cinema pioneers the Lumiere bros in France, 1896. It's been colourised and had the speed adjusted.
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After the lunch break now...
2020 Crossroad Dash. Live.
#LifeCommentary #LiveCommentary
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"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says @MichaelRosenYes @hayfestival #TextualHealing
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The famous Jesus in a gas mask scene from Fridrikh Ermler's silent drama Fragment of an Empire (1929) was removed from some versions of the film by censors
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Antonia โLa Singlaโ Contreras was born in Barcelona in 1948. A flamenco prodigy, she is seen here performing in 1965. Today, she lives in Catalonia and is retired. In 2017, one of her brothers opened a tablao in Barcelona named La Singla to pay tribute to the legendary dancer.
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Here's a 123-year-old home movie: Cinema pioneer Auguste Lumiรจre with his wife Marie and daughter Josรฉphine in 1895
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I always find it interesting to hear what silent film stars sounded like. Some sound how I'd expect, others are a bit surprising
