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The "corridors" in the library made by the shelves are really narrow. Not to mention frightening. There seems to be light at the end of this tunnel though.
This was a required examination for pupil-teachers in the 1920s and my mother was awarded the certificate at Holbrook in 1929.
Steel engraving from The National Encyclopedia 1884 - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge.
Published by William Mackenzie, London; 18 Vols. Brown gilt cloth boards 20cm x 17cm.
Special Knowledge Forum in celebration of World Environment Day 2018 at ICIMOD. This Knowledge Forum is co-sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, the Nepali Times, Doko Recyclers and ICIMOD.
Photo: Jitendra Raj Bajracharya/ICIMOD.
Message posted on behalf of Maeve Strom and the ES team:
For those who have gotten wind of current defamation and untruthful claims against *ES* and our pose store in copying poses from a rival pose store we filed a DMCA giving us the right to show all evidence of our creations upload dates etc etc filing a DMCA (which is a proper legal channel for any content theft..not just copyright =p covered under the act of the DMCA) in showing just the opposite..that the accusers have copied poses from *ES*.
The reason Linden Lab has this process is to hold providers liable for creations unique to individuals and items they create in SL. Just like skins or clothes which are not copyrighted in most cases.
The Blog below is written by an SL member who understands what DMCA's are. It further explains the DMCA process and issues we have gone through in our name being defamed. We urge you to read. Should anyone have questions you may feel free to IM us in-world or drop us a flickrmail.
Read more here:
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Rachael At the brooks museum
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Socks: moitie
shoes: Double Decker
necklace: Fake Vivienne Westwood
Knowledge Cafe: Fostering Innovation Enabling ICTs for Development.
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The University of Chester Garden at RHS Tatton Park 2009, designed by Lynda Baguley, Angela Bell and Robert Walker. A garden of simple elegance and beauty.
Annotator is a JavaScript widget that can be added to any webpage to allow inline annotation of its contents.
This is a mashup of "3D Stone Cells" and "Glass Bottles I" used under Creative Commons BY, SA, NC licenses.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around what happened last crazy weekend. I still can’t believe that it's almost a decade since I left Silicon Valley. Everything is still exactly the same as I remember it to be - the scent, the view, the warmth that always embraces me. Every time I heard of Bay Area, I always feel this sentimental yearning and nostalgia rushing through me. No matter where I go in life, this place still holds a very very special place in my heart. It's where I first set foot into a different world - a world where I was forced to rewind my childhood, re-evaluate my dysfunctional family and thus, discover who I am and grow up as a strong and wise individual.
Time really does fly, doesn’t it? It seems like just yesterday I was this little scared and curious16-year-old-girl attending Gunn High School in Palo Alto. I was born in Vietnam and have been there for most of my life but here - in the US, here - in Palo Alto, is actually where I "grow up". Nine years has passed and among them, I spent 7 years living in different beautiful famous cities in California. Half of that time, I was alone, living by myself. Every heart break, every knockout, every second chance broaden my knowledge and perspective, enriched my life with various emotions and deep understandings.
I love LA to death because it’s the place that sees me through all my craziest ups and downs. It witnessed me being broken down, torn apart, gathered together and built back up again. It's where I went from having everything to having nothing in a blink of an eye. It's where I loved and lost. It's where I’m lost and found. Yet, the cities of Silicon Valley hold my dearest and sweetest memories of an innocent 16-year-old-me. It’s the place where I can truly call home, where I feel safe, warm and loved, where no matter what life brings me down, I could always come back and cry in the arms of those who genuinely care about me, where I could speak and let myself be heard and understood.
It's been so long since I could genuinely smile like this. When I started learning photography, I told myself not to take anymore self portrait. I'm seeking to speak the simple beautiful truth of life through my photos and I'm just so sick of photos of me faking smiles. But this time, I'll break my rule because I knew I was genuinely feeling warm and happy from within. I breathed in the fresh air, the cool breeze, the gloomy sky and the vivid memories. I was at peace.
I came home and I was free - free to spread my wings wild open and fly high. Day after day, I become more and more humbly grateful for the extraordinary experiences that I have had. It turned me upside down, inside out. It lets me tap into my inner self – the one filled with so many dark, confused emotions, thoughts and wonders. My soul is no longer a miss-match of my appearance. This is I – the one and only unique individual that whoever God is created and put into this world.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but STRONG COMMUNICATION SKILLS ARE WHAT WILL GET YOU PROMOTED. - Mireille Guiliano
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Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
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Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
HongYue, a fantasy character originally came from an online RPG game "Paladin" (仙劍奇俠傳). HongYue is a kind and generous young girl. she loves to help whenever she can, a true heroic attribute to her personality. She is an expert in cracking tomb organs and has deep knowledge in feng shui!
This outfit is designed in red, is the perfect reflection to HongYue's fierce character. This outfit comes with protective gloves, shoes and boots, has a short cutting to allow quick, agile movements.