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Libraries are more than just buildings filled with books. They’re magical places that can take us anywhere.
We could all use a break, so here's a look at the world's most incredible libraries.
Let’s take a journey together 🧵
ALT The handelingkamer library.
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Martin Luther King Jr. #MLK #MLKDay2023
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A former CIA math genius built a quantitative trading fund that earned more than $100 BILLION for investors.
At 66% return/yr, his track record destroys that of Warren Buffet, George Soros, Carl Icahn, and every investor who ever lived.
The Smartest Billionaire in Finance:
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Rep. Hudson, R-N.C., left, pulls Rep. Rogers, R-Ala., as he confronts Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., during the 14th round of voting for speaker as the House meets for the fourth day to try and elect a speaker in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (@AP Photo/@andyharnik)
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This shot truly took a ridiculous amount of time and energy to make happen, I hope you like it! #lunareclipse2022 – at New York, USA
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In 1988 the U.S. government wanted to know how strong reinforced concrete is, the very same stuff used in construction of nuclear reactor facilities, So they launched an F4 Phantom jet at 500 mph and slammed it head-on directly into a slab of concrete buff.ly/3vK1Fzj
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"The Face of War" by Ukrainian artist Daria Marchenko. Made out of 5000 bullet shells. #StandWithUkraine
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Fleeing Kharkiv
Today we passed a long, long line of cars heading out of Ukraine’s second city, as families emerged from a week in underground bomb shelters, their nerves in shreds, hoping to find safety in another city
Many had taped the word ‘children’ to their windows
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Like a video game map, except 200 years ago: this is Edward Quin's historical atlas, from 1830, where he depicted each expansion of European knowledge of the world over time as pushing back clouds of unknowing on a map. (The maps are very 19th century UK) publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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A book of algae pictures may sound a little mundane, but it’s actually “The First Photographically Illustrated and Printed Book”—and it was taken by the first female photographer. #WomensHistoryMonth bit.ly/35Pu6ly
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.@VP @SenSchumer & @LeaderMcConnell walk through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
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Watch part of @JaneFerguson5's report on what may be the world's riskiest feminist movement: Afghan women in the streets demanding their rights in full view of Taliban gunmen. to.pbs.org/2xQQeuL
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It’s amazing that 10 billion vaccine doses have been administered around the world.
It’s also extremely disappointing that 3 billion people still haven’t yet had access to a single dose.
Vaccine equity—or lack of it—will determine the pandemic’s future.
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/world… – at Manhattan, NY
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I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries.
So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that
You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it -- and presents it for instant reading
Behold the "Weird Old Book Finder": clivethompson.medium.com/a-s…
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As founder and frontwoman of seminal bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna led the way for countless artists looking to meld art and activism.
to.pbs.org/3FhE8aR
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This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
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This is simply not true. Vaccines for smallpox, later childhood vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, Hib (vaccines discovered in USA), preserved our nation. I’m aghast at the absence of intellectual curiosity or even passing interest in American 🇺🇸 history from our US Congress – at Houston, TX
