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a bicolor pattern uploaded for #SmileonSaturday theme #blue-tiful.
Happy SoS for everyone - Feliz SoS para todos !
Bisbee, Arizona
the smaller signs in the window, rather faded from southern exposure, say:
children born unwanted often live lives of sadness and despair.
oppose mandatory motherhood.
Margaret Atwood was right!
invite Amy Coney Barrett to your baby shower.
It was a good day, this January 20, 2021.
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. USA
Mining my "vast digital archive" for this one (from OCT 2012).
While I have made only one visit to Washington D.C., I have been to the Lincoln Memorial three times. - two of them at night. BY FAR, my favorite experience in Washington. I highly recommend a night-time visit. True inspiration.
Texas. 2017
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Center of the roof construction of the german parliament.
Das Zentrum der Dachkonstruktion der Kuppel über dem Reichstag, dem deutschen Bundestag und Parlament.
Klassisches Foto aller Kuppelbesucher, ich weiß.
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
Albert Moravia
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
. Democracy is Fun .
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mixed media , collage .
by : M.A.M08
" government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. "
Hungarian Parliament / Budapest / Hungary
Album of Hungary: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157711998...
Voting Day in Australia. Etta in her Aussie flag bandana. Still having medication for the ulcer on her eye. Now looks like she needs some more lumps removed, as well!
Breathtaking Last Sunset Of September 2020 On Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™
This is what tonight's sunset - the last sunset of September 2020 - unfolded looking like. I knew I had to take some photos as I juggled two steaks on the grill, two German Shepherds playing hard drenched from being in the swimming pool, and two cameras to take photos with. What can I tell you... I am a Gemini. Two of everything. LOL.
2020 has been a surreal year for us. For all of us. Globally, as a species under attack from a pandemic. Nationally, America literally facing an existential crisis brought on by a constitutional crisis being foisted upon us by the agents of an enemy state. And even personally, by the many shocking blows I was hit with this year.
But, at the end of it all, the day, the month, the quarter, soon the year, the decade, and one day my earthly time itself, I cannot deny all the unbelievable blessings I shall forever be grateful for. That is why almost everything I am writing this year makes me refer to things with the particular year 2020 mentioned.
I hope that we all survive this year all the horrendous things that threaten us, our health, our democracy, and our nation. I pray that we grow stronger, smarter, happier, more loved, and more successful in the years to come. I dream of the times we can look back at the writings from these moments in time and be grateful to have made it into those dates in the future. I hope you will be with me then too. Amen.
© 2020 IMRAN™
At the middle of Bangkok.
On Rachchadumnern road
I took this photo on the bus.
If you want to come here, you can ask the way from me.
Self-congratulatory despotism Persian style: King Philip II of Macedon, 4th century BC. Being tired of democracy is nothing new. Craving for the populist "Leader" who is expected to get things done or go for glory has happened before. It happened in the 20th century.
The Democracy Monument (Thai: อนุสาวรีย์ประชาธิปไตย, romanized: Anusawari Prachathipatai) is a public monument in the city center of Bangkok, capital of Thailand. It occupies a traffic circle on the wide east–west Ratchadamnoen Avenue, at the intersection of Dinso Road. The monument is roughly halfway between Sanam Luang, the former royal cremation ground in front of Wat Phra Kaew, and the temple of the Golden Mount (Phu Kao Thong).
Nelson Mandela and many political prisoners were incarcerated at Robben Island off the Western Cape coast. It was South Africa's Alcatraz, virtually impossible to escape from due to its distance from the mainland, strong currents, cold water and sharks.
Prisoners were required to dig limestone rock from this pit. Here in the 1960's Nelson Mandela and others formulated plans for the transition from a racially oppressed society to a true democracy. This was eventually achieved in 1994 by a national election for the entire country, regardless of race. Many believe that a massive insurrection by the suppressed that had been dreaded for so long was averted by the strategy and stature of Nelson Mandela.
He became a strong supporter of national rugby, (a white-dominated sport that was mostly despised by blacks) and motivated the Springboks to win the Rugby World Cup in 1995. That victory was seen as a galvanizing event to bring the races together in the new democracy.
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The view over London towards Parliament as the fog descends over the city. I should have released this when parliament rejected the PMs deal.