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Midyat is a town in Mardin province of southeastern Turkey. The history of Midyat can be traced back to the Hurrians during the 3rd millennium BC. The town is a melting point of religions and languages.
Via del Foro Piscario is a street in the Rione Sant'Angelo that crosses the archaeological area of the Teatro di Marcello. The name Foro Piscario belonged to the place where the fish market took place for centuries.
A scene from Alberto Sordi's famous film An American in Rome was filmed on this street.
In my hometown there is an old Hotel which was used as a hospital(Lazarett) during the 2nd World War. ..... Lately ,at a visit, I noticed this old sign at the wall....It´s the sign of the "Red Cross", if you can imagine!!!?? Times and weather have washed the white colour......Tiles have been replaced ....History!!!!Today " Johannes Itten " would have been enthusiastic about the colours:-)))).. I´m really flashed , anyway<3
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith
Castle Westhove. The castle dates from the 13th century.
The castle was in a charter of 1277 of Count Floris V mentioned as being the property of the abbey in Middelburg, but it is not clear how old the castle was then.
Here you see the left side. I just love this place!
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We used today to dive into the history of the Danish West Coast visiting the Tirpitz Museum in Blavand as well as the open air museum of Nymindegab. I can highly recommend both locations for people who love to learn more about the life of our ancestors in previous centuries. Nymindegab, Jylland, Denmark
The old windmill of Eickhorst is one of my favorite places to dive into history. Minden Area, Ostwestfalen, Germany
It seems like there must be an interesting historical story behind these unique rock formations at Arches National Park. There are amazing landscapes throughout the park!
A shot of one part of Odunpazarı, Eskişehir. The area is full of these old Ottoman style houses, many of which, as in this street, have been restored.
ruins of the castle in Janowiec
a Renaissance castle built in the years 1508–1526 on the high Vistula embankment
Zaanse Schans Windmills
What comes around goes around. Isn't it fascinating that one of the main sources of the modern movement of "green energy" is the wind turbine? Humanity has been using windmills through recorded history in order to generate energy (in physics, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement) all the way back to the 9th Century. Windmills as a major source of energy reached their zenith around 1850, but rapidly became obsolete with the advent of steam power. But now we have circled back again, with vast fields of new wind turbines producing "work" for our energy consumption.
Here at Zaanse Schans are these wonderful examples of how history does indeed repeat itself. These windmills, dating from 1574 onwards, but transplanted from around the Netherlands to Zaanse Schans starting in the 1950s, form a living history museum and still produce energy to accomplish industry: From the left, Het Jonge Schaap is a working sawmill, De Zoeker produces oil from peanuts through crushing, De Kat is the world's only working windmill to produce paints and pigments, and in the foreground is De Gekroonde Poelenburg, another sawmill.
A visit to the Netherlands is not complete unless you can make it to one of their many windmill sites (there are over 1000 still present in the country).
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Allee vom Jagtschloss Falkenlust zum Schloss Augustusburg wird von der Bahnstrecke Köln- Bonn gekreuzt.
Around the beginning of the Great Depression in late 1920, an apple company decided to sell apples to people on credit, who in turn sold the apples. Five cent apple sellers could be found throughout street corners in New York.
The apple selling scheme had several benefits: It helped the apple industry move surplus produce that might never get purchased otherwise, and it helped men earn some money. But more than that, it gave men a small sense of pride. By selling apples instead of begging, the unemployed men still seemed to be in charge of their own destinies. Photographs of men selling the apples remain one of the most well-known symbols of the Depression today.
www.history.com/news/apples-weapon-great-depression
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I recently finished reading a very interesting collection of short stories entitled Save Me Stranger, by Erika Krouse. The stories are pretty wild and go in all different directions with quite a large variety of main characters and settings. Many really made me think more deeply about life situations and reality.
In any case, the collection starts out with the following quote from Anaïs Nin:
"Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."
I've been thinking about that quite a bit and I immediately start thinking about how when you are going through a traumatic incident, it is sometimes helpful to picture yourself removed from your body, as if seeing it all from an existential distance.
How will we understand and tell our own stories with this huge change in history...this turmoil, these atrocities currently happening in our names. And, of course, the "winners" are the ones who get to write those stories but none of us are winning here. Some of us may be lucky to survive but that's about all. What we've all collectively lost is immeasurable, whether we write it down or not.
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