mikeleonardvisualarts has added a photo to the pool:
Damien Douxchamps has added a photo to the pool:
A rare white and red torri gate in Kamakura-gu. Blue sky a must.
Et un peu bleu-blanc-rouge aussi, tant qu'on y est... ( ^-^)v
Surfer turns decommissioned wind turbine blades into surfboard fins. At the Waubra Wind Farm near Ballarat, 40-metre turbine blades that once helped power the state are given a second life.
Surfer turns decommissioned wind turbine blades into surfboard fins. At the Waubra Wind Farm near Ballarat, 40-metre turbine blades that once helped power the state are given a second life.
De Tweede Wereldoorlog, de vrijheidsstrijd in Indonesië, VN-missies in Libanon, Afghanistan en Irak. Vaak gaat het over die momenten als we herdenken op 4 mei. Dat bijna 5 duizend Nederlanders een bijdrage leverden aan de Koreaanse oorlog (1950-1953) weten niet veel mensen. Harm Hertsenberg was één van hen.
The race to succeed Gavin Newsom has teetered wildly, and with Democrats in disarray, the Republican ex-Downing Street adviser is leading in the polls. Can he really pull it off?
Few political aspirations have proved more futile over the past two decades than running as a Republican for statewide office in California. Yet Steve Hilton – transplanted Brit, erstwhile business entrepreneur, a former Downing Street adviser to David Cameron and a former Fox News host who says he is friends with half of Donald Trump’s cabinet – is having a remarkably good time of it.
With less than six weeks to go before a primary election that has proved to be both dramatic and wildly unpredictable, most polls put Hilton narrowly ahead of a fractured field of Democrats in the race to succeed Gavin Newsom as governor. It is an astonishing turn of events in a state where Democrats enjoy supermajorities in the state legislature and a two-to-one advantage over the Republicans in voter registration.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Contractor denies allegations including ‘enforced disappearance’ and will help locate unaccompanied minors
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a contract to a private security company that has faced accusations of “torture” and “enforced disappearance” to assist in tracking down undocumented immigrant children who arrived in the US alone, a contracting document shows.
ICE has stepped up its work so much in pursuing these minors in the US that it has contracted out some of its mission to a third party to put “boots on the ground” and locate immigrant children previously released from US government custody.
Continue reading...The Corsican photographer’s patience paid off when they captured this stunning silhouette of a young woman
Anonymity has been an intriguing concept for ASA since they first took up photography. They shot this image in their home town of Bastia, on the French island of Corsica. This was 2018, in the height of summer, “when the sun was at its strongest. I like working when the light is very strong and the facades are burned by the sun,” ASA says. “Shadows fall very sharply, shapes become clearer, colours become stronger and people turn into silhouettes.”
After positioning themselves unobtrusively on one side of the street with their iPhone X, ASA waited patiently for some time as strangers passed through their frame. “This woman was walking with a certain lightness, almost cheerful. When I looked again afterwards, I had the feeling she might be going to an appointment, maybe even a romantic one. But at the time, I simply saw a young woman moving, carried by her own energy.”
Continue reading...Spinosaurid fossil bought by Stuttgart institution in 1991 has been the subject of a long restitution campaign
It is a 113-million-year-old bone of contention.
After Stuttgart’s museum of natural history bought a fossilised dinosaur skull in 1991, researchers found it was the most complete spinosaurid skull known to date, belonging to a previously unknown genus of the huge meat-eating dinosaurs.
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