Pristina, Kosovo: Opposition lawmakers cover their eyes as smoke fills the auditorium of the assembly after they released teargas canisters to disrupt a parliamentary session. The teargas was discharged as the lawmakers were preparing to vote on whether to elect Hashim Thaci, foreign minister and former guerrilla leader, as the next president. Photo: Visar Kryeziu/AP.
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When Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev finished his speech on occasion of the festivities of the 30th anniversary of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, East Germany, East German President Erich Honecker opened his arms to congratulate him with a long kiss, a normal ritual for socialist comrades. Photo © Régis Bossu.
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Fraternal Kiss mural of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing while driving a Trabant.
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In mortem
Ei fu, io sono E sull’ermo colle D’alloro cinto All’ora fatale, prode, m’appresto Il timor mi fa vile Ma più ardito l’agognato plauso E se di lui l’umana gente Ebbe a dir gran lode E sperticato elogio Che dirà di me per cotanto canto? Ei fu ed io sono Ma sol nella morte il volgo il mito incarna Io sarò! Sia pur cocendo ne lo tormento eterno.
Isadora Duncan
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Sydney, Australia: Dancers perform during a photo-call for CounterMove by the Sydney Dance Company. Photo: William West/AFP/Getty.
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Ho teso corde da campanile a campanile; ghirlande da finestra a finestra; catene d’oro da stella a stella, e danzo.
Arthur Rimbaud, “Illuminations”
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A woman shows her inked finger after casting her ballot at a polling station in Tehran, Iran. Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images.
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Gianni Infantino celebrates after being elected as the new Fifa president. Photo: Alexander Hassenstein – FIFA/Fifa via Getty Images.
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Siberia, Russia: Pamir, a nine-year-old bear, plays with a log after winter hibernation at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a suburb of Krasnoyarsk. Some Siberian bears have woken up two to three weeks earlier than usual due to the warm weather, according to zoo employees. Photo: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is thinking hard about the question. Photo: Charlie Enscoe.
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The contender for the World Women’s Crown, 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), her parents, and her coach Vladimir Nikolaevich Chuchelov arrived in Lviv, Ukraine, by plane in the evening of February 24, 2016. They were welcomed at the airport by the Deputy Mayor of Lviv Andriy Oleksandrovych Moskalenko. A video footage was released on the very same day on Lviv City Council Youtube Channel. |
I have some rather interesting news today – the enemy’s armies have moved to Samarkand, just to find out that Sofia Nutini, virtuoso dancer of Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”, is always seven steps behind, ready to enter the stage in her role as Caïssa, and so I launch an appeal to any chess player of good will to interrupt their work for a couple of hours to enthusiastically join the Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”’s dance classes. Photo: Rapid Foto Center.
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Alberto Alicata, Italy
Professional; Staged Alicata honours iconic images by the great masters, using symbols of contemporary western culture, in this case Barbie. Photo: Alberto Alicata/Sony World Photography Awards. |
Catacombs — Apollo Saturn V F1 engine test stand, Edwards air force base, California in 2000. Photo: Roland Miller.
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Kolkata, India: A four-year-old giraffe looks out from its cage while being transported to a zoological park in Bhubaneswar. Photo: Bikas Das/AP.
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Stephanie Sinclair, United States
Professional; Daily Life “The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus is made up of people from 25 different countries, speaking everything from Russian to Arabic to Guarani. A few travel in cars and trailers, but a majority – 270 – live on the trains. Most come from multi-generation circus families, to the extent that collectively, the circus staff represents thousands of years of circus history”. Photo: Stephanie Sinclair/Sony World Photography Awards. |
This afternoon we sent the first Curriculum Vitae (CV) of my friend Goumbala Mbacké Serigne to Unicoop Florence asking for a stable work. Actually he is volunteering as a civil helper at Unicoop’s major competitor Esselunga S.p.A. Last time I brought him good luck, when Italian authorities eventually granted him a residence permit, after seven or so years of waiting. And this time I hope I’ll see more of him at Unicoop, so maybe it will be up to him to offer me coffee.
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+-) 22. Qxe6+ Bf7 23. Qxe7 Rxd4 24. Qh4 h5 25. Rxd4 Qxd4 26. Re3 Kg7 27. h3 Rd8 28. Re5 Rf8 29. Re7 b5 30. Ne4 Kh8 31. Qg5 Qxb2 32. f5 Qg7 33. f6 Qh7 34. Qe5 g5 35. Nxg5 Qb1+ 36. Kh2 Qg6 37. Rxf7 1 : 0.
南充 (Nánchōng), China: A lantern parade to celebrate the Toad festival, a tradition where people send away a symbolic toad figure representing illness and call for good health and a good harvest. Photo: 新华通讯社 (Xīnhuá News Agency/Rex/Shutterstock.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton silhouetted by a stage light as she speaks at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa, August 8, 2012. Photo: Reuters/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool.
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Germany’s very prestigious news weekly, Die Zeit, have just chalked up seventy years of publication. As part of the anniversary celebration they invited the World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen to play a seventy-board simultaneous exhibition. A number of prominenten opponents took part, and a number of fairly strong players. The event took six hour and ended in a veritable massacre. [Read more].
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© 劉勃麟 (Liú Bólín) | Hiding in the City | Paris | 10 | Liberty leading the people, 2013 | Edwynn Houk Gallery.
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唯一比失明更糟的是，你看得见，却没有远见。
Wéiyī bǐ shīmíng gèng zāo de shì, nǐ kàn dé jiàn, què méiyǒu yuǎnjiàn. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
海倫·亞當斯·凯勒 (Helen Adams Keller)
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Typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes form over the sea when the water temperature rises above 27°C. They’re the biggest windstorms of all – and can measure up to 900km across. This photograph shows a tree blown down by Typhoon Kalmaegi, in China, 2014. Photo: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images.
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An ice storm is silent but deadly – heavy ice-build-up cuts off roads and halts vehicles, and can bring roofs, power cables and trees crashing down. Check out these cars and trees coated in ice glaze in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Prisma Bildagentur AG/Alamy/Alamy.
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The celebrated Italian intellectual Umberto Eco, who shot to fame with his 1980 novel “The Name of the Rose”, has been remembered as a master of Italian culture following his death at the age of 84.
Eco died on Friday night after suffering from cancer, prompting tributes to pour in for the esteemed writer. [Read more]. |
