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<p>A collapsing abandoned theatre, somewhere in Italy</p><p><a href="/tags/abandoned/" rel="tag">#Abandoned</a> <a href="/tags/italy/" rel="tag">#Italy</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#Theatre</a> <a href="/tags/artnouveau/" rel="tag">#ArtNouveau</a> <a href="/tags/theater/" rel="tag">#Theater</a> <a href="/tags/lostplaces/" rel="tag">#LostPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/abandonedplaces/" rel="tag">#AbandonedPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/collapse/" rel="tag">#Collapse</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/architecture/" rel="tag">#Architecture</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: when asked, in 1970, by australian journalist, richard carleton, why the PFLP didn&#x27;t engage in negotiations with the israeli state, ghassan kanafani (esteemed author &amp; a leading figure of palestine&#x27;s marxist resistance) explained that to do so would be &#x27;a kind of conversation between the sword &amp; the neck&#x27;. ghassan *should have* celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday, but he was assassinated by mossad in 1972.<br><a href="/tags/ghassankanafani/" rel="tag">#ghassanKanafani</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#palestine</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#gaza</a> <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a></p>

<p>🛀 Bathhouse Number 8, Tskaltubo, Georgia</p><p>Part of an extensive Soviet health resort, facility fell into ruin after the USSR&#x27;s collapse in 1991.</p><p>The space is an empty ruin, but there are several beautiful details. The dividing walls feature fascinating stylised deer murals. Also shrubs and a small sapling grow in the centre, nature reclaiming concrete.</p><p><a href="https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/bathhouse-number-8-tskaltubo-georgia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/bathhouse-number-8-tskaltubo-georgia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.obsidianurbexphotography.c</span><span class="invisible">om/leisure/bathhouse-number-8-tskaltubo-georgia/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/abandonedplaces/" rel="tag">#AbandonedPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#Travel</a> <a href="/tags/soviet/" rel="tag">#Soviet</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve been uploading <a href="/tags/hacking/" rel="tag">#hacking</a> magazines from <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a>, some of which have been removed for reasons I don&#x27;t understand, to Internet Archive. This is a decent scan of an issue of Hacker Defence (or Hacker Defence Line?) from I think the early to mid 00s.<br><a href="/tags/hacker/" rel="tag">#hacker</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a><br><a href="https://archive.org/details/hacker_defence_unknown" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/hacker_defence_unknown"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/hacker_def</span><span class="invisible">ence_unknown</span></a></p>

<p>Vin Mariani was an extremely popular wine created in the 1860s. Pope Leo XIII purportedly carried a hipflask of Vin Mariani with him, and Thomas Edison credited it with helping him work through the night. It had 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine. </p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/drinking/" rel="tag">#drinking</a> <a href="/tags/advertisements/" rel="tag">#advertisements</a> <a href="/tags/wine/" rel="tag">#wine</a></p>

<p>Going to Venice this summer?</p><p>Interested in history?</p><p>Book a tour with me, and I&#x27;ll talk you ears off.</p><p><a href="/tags/venice/" rel="tag">#Venice</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/historynerd/" rel="tag">#historyNerd</a></p><p><a href="https://historywalksvenice.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>historywalksvenice.com/</a></p>

<p>Lovely Peeps! Your cool <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> for the day! 🚀</p><p>(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words &amp; I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)</p><p>If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊</p><p>&quot;Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.</p><p>But nobody’s talking about the <a href="/tags/deaf/" rel="tag">#Deaf</a> men who made it possible.</p><p>In the late 1950s, <a href="/tags/nasa/" rel="tag">#NASA</a> had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.</p><p>So they came to <a href="/tags/gallaudet/" rel="tag">#Gallaudet</a>.</p><p>Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.</p><p>NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.</p><p>Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.</p><p>No <a href="/tags/gallaudet_eleven/" rel="tag">#Gallaudet_Eleven</a> — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.</p><p>Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth &amp; came home safely.</p><p>They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.</p><p>Now you know!&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/artemis2/" rel="tag">#Artemis2</a> <a href="/tags/asl/" rel="tag">#ASL</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/til/" rel="tag">#TIL</a> <a href="/tags/nyle_di_marco/" rel="tag">#Nyle_di_Marco</a></p>

<p>This story is amazing.</p><p>Giant octopuses of the Cretaceous were up to 19 meters (60 feet) long. </p><p>They were the apex ocean predators of their day, eating up plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.</p><p>And they were apparently quite intelligent. </p><p>Sorry we missed you!</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sc</span><span class="invisible">ience.aea6285</span></a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>🛸 Buzludzha is a massive Communist monument in the Bulgarian mountains.</p><p>Its Brutalist saucer design and 107m tower with a red star made it a landmark of the Eastern Bloc. Since 1989, harsh winters and neglect left the interior and its 25 tonnes of mosaics in ruins.</p><p>Now recognised as endangered heritage, the site is undergoing vital stabilisation. There has been preservation to protect the hall’s dome and mosaics.</p><p><a href="/tags/buzludzha/" rel="tag">#Buzludzha</a> <a href="/tags/bulgaria/" rel="tag">#Bulgaria</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/brutalist/" rel="tag">#Brutalist</a> <a href="/tags/abandoned/" rel="tag">#Abandoned</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a></p>

<p>It&#x27;s good to know that in some places -- many places, one hopes -- there is a sense of timelessness, a connection to the past that does not bow down before technology and trends.</p><p>Ancient Sanctuary framed print -- <a href="https://www.pictorem.com/2626142/ancient-sanctuary/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pictorem.com/2626142/ancient-sanctuary/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pictorem.com/2626142/ancie</span><span class="invisible">nt-sanctuary/</span></a></p><p>Free shipping in the U.S. and Canada</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/artwork/" rel="tag">#artwork</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#buyintoart</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#ayearforart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/italy/" rel="tag">#italy</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a> <a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">#church</a> <a href="/tags/cathedral/" rel="tag">#cathedral</a> <a href="/tags/ancient/" rel="tag">#ancient</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/landscape/" rel="tag">#landscape</a> <a href="/tags/sunset/" rel="tag">#sunset</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/wallart/" rel="tag">#wallart</a> <a href="/tags/decor/" rel="tag">#decor</a></p>

<p>I send thanks to the buyer from Washington who purchased a shopping/tote bag of</p><p>Along the Outer Wall -- <a href="https://fineartamerica.com/featured/along-the-outer-wall-steve-henderson.html?product=tote-bag" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fineartamerica.com/featured/along-the-outer-wall-steve-henderson.html?product=tote-bag"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fineartamerica.com/featured/al</span><span class="invisible">ong-the-outer-wall-steve-henderson.html?product=tote-bag</span></a></p><p>May you and this tote go on many adventures together.</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/artwork/" rel="tag">#artwork</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#buyintoart</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#ayearforart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/italy/" rel="tag">#italy</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/vacation/" rel="tag">#vacation</a> <a href="/tags/spring/" rel="tag">#spring</a> <a href="/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">#flowers</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/hilltop/" rel="tag">#hilltop</a> <a href="/tags/village/" rel="tag">#village</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">#flowers</a></p>