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I passed through Union Square in a light rain seven years ago yesterday & the Empire State Building was shrouded in mist & fog, making it look mysterious & very #Gotham (2.24.18)

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Alternative Transport's map of lexical distance among the languages of Europe (not all of which are Indo-European): alternativetransport.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/34/

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#OldEnglish #WOTD from Old English Wordhord @OEWordhord (12.11.17): wlite-beorht, adj: of splendid beauty, beautiful. [WLIT-eh-BEH-orht] #English #words #languages

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Victor Hugo's play "Hernani" premiered in Paris #OnThisDay in 1830; Giuseppe Verdi's "Ernani" was based on it & premiered in 1844; here's the great Anna Moffo singing "Ernani, involami": www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oPA... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernani en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernani...

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Albrecht von Wallenstein was assassinated #OnThisDay in 1634; the leading general in the Thirty Years' War, his vaulting ambition made his sovereign the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II suspect that the general was aiming to make himself emperor... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrech...

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I visited the Museum of Russian Art — the only museum in the US primarily devoted to the #art of #Russia — in Minneapolis 14 years ago yesterday; this is a magnificent lacquered #egg that I saw on display there (2.24.11) tmora.org

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USA Today put a photo from a town in #Ukraine destroyed by a Russian airstrike on the front page of Tuesday's paper even as #DonaldTrump aligned with #VladimirPutin's #Russia in #UNGA votes which are non-binding but show increasing US diplomatic isolation: apnews.com/article/un-r...

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#OnThisDay in 1994, #Zionist terrorist #BaruchGoldstein murdered 29 Palestinians & injured 150 more in the Ibrahimim osque massacre — an act of #terrorism praised by Zionists; support #BDS to #FreePalestine from #ApartheidIsrael's illegal & genocidal occupation~! daysofpalestine.ps/31-years-sin...

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#EmmanuelMacron's meeting with #DonaldTrump likely will do little other than boost the ego of the French president who has been repudiated by the French people & retains only the ability to strut upon the world stage as his final term in office comes to an end...

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Hakeem Jeffries & Chuck Schumer are doing nothing: #Democrats couldn't care less about the country; as long as the billionaire class they serve profits, Democrats will sit back & enjoy the destruction of democracy & the elimination of federal programs for the poor www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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#Ossies voted overwhelmingly for the #AfD — the wrong response to the legitimate issue of the former East Germany being left behind since the 1990 #Wiedervereinigung: the #fascist party's appeal is overwhelmingly in the former #DDR, as this map shows (Augsburger Allgemeine, 2.25.25)

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Torino's La Stampa calls it "the war of the worlds" but will #EmmanuelMacron's meeting with #DonaldTrump actually influence the orange fascist as he cozies up to Vladimir Putin & betrays the Ukrainian people by spouting Kremlin propaganda about #Russia & #Ukraine...?

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"Nissim Vaturi, the deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset, has called for all adult men in Gaza to be killed in the latest example of genocidal rhetoric from an Israeli official": #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide continues by many different means... news.antiwar.com/2025/02/24/d...

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#RobertDevereux was executed for treason #OnThisDay in 1601; the 2nd Earl of Essex foolishly led a failed rebellion against #ElizabethTudor & paid the ultimate price for his unbridled ambition & hubris... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

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#EnricoCaruso was born into a poor family in Naples #OnThisDay in 1873 to rise to become the greatest #opera singer of all time before dying at the age of 48 in 1921; here's an hour of Caruso; listen to his "Vesti la giubba" (at 16:09) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zlf... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_...

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#Chicago's Ukrainian community gathered to mark the third anniversary of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine even as #DonaldTrump reverses alliances to align the US with #VladimirPutin's brutal dictatorship & genocidal war on the Ukrainian people (Sun-Times) chicago.suntimes.com/ukraine/2025...

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Joe Ippolito & me in Queens 13 years ago yesterday (2.23.12)

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I walked through Central Park four years ago today (2.24.21) & thought of #FranzSchubert's last & greatest song cycle, "Die Winterreise"; here's "Der Leiermann," sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIS... oxfordsong.org/song/der-lei... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterr...

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#NewYorkCity is at the same latitude as #Madrid & #Seoul is at the same latitude as Seville, believe it or not~! at least according to this map of #Spain with world cities & their equivalent latitudes projected onto the map...

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Eugene V. Debs said it best: "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world."~Socialist Worker🚩(@SocialistViews) — our loyalty should be to #MotherEarth, not to any national state; #savetheplanet~!

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Carlo Goldoni (1707), José de San Martín (1778), Enrico Caruso (1873), John Foster Dulles (1888), Myra Hess (1890), Meher Baba (1894), Millicent Fenwick (1910), Sun-myung Moon (1920), #SallyJessyRaphael (1935), Néstor Kirchner (1950) & Sean Astin (1971) were born #OnThisDay...

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"It's always been about imperial conquest for despot #VladimirPutin — throwback cartoon from 2008 #Ukraina"~Graeme MacKay — editorial cartoonist (@mackaycartoons): more relevant than ever on the third anniversary of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine & #DonaldTrump's embrace of him~!

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I communed with #Guanyin — the boddhisattva of compassion — at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 14 years ago today (2.24.11); many in the #transgender community in Asia revere the Buddhist deity: paulinepark.com/2011/01/29/p...

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US colleges & universities are using #ApartheidIsrael's violent tactics in an illegal & unconstitutional move to silence critics of the #GazaGenocide proving that #Zionists are the biggest threat to #FreedomOfSpeech in the US today: #Resist the #fascists~! truthout.org/articles/cam...

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"Rinaldo" (HWV 7) premiered #OnThisDay in 1711 #GeorgFriedrichHändel's first Italian #opera written for London includes two great arias; here's countertenor Raffaele Pe singing the aria "Or la tromba": www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AKG... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B-H... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinaldo...

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Holy Roman Emperor Charles V crushed the French army in the Battle of Pavia, killing 15,000 & capturing François I of #France #OnThisDay in 1525; it was the emperor's greatest military victory & France's greatest humiliation in the Italian Wars of the Renaissance... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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I steamed organic brown rice & wild rice, blanched organic lacinato kale & tossed in wild mackerel for a high-protein meal that didn't rely on the cruelty of factory farming #Makrele #makrell #makrill #maquereau #macrou #sgombro #caballa 고등어 (godeung-eo) (2.24.25) thehumaneleague.org/article/what...

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"Rinaldo" (HWV 7) premiered #OnThisDay in 1711 #GeorgFriedrichHändel's first Italian #opera written for London includes two great arias; here's countertenor Philippe Jaroussky singing the aria "Lascia ch'io pianga": www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxnB... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinaldo...

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Karl von #Habsburg was born #OnThisDay in 1500, becoming Carlos I of #Spain in 1516 & Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1519; after he abdicated as king & emperor, he retired to the Monasterio de San Jeronimo de Yuste in Extremadura... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaste... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

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I joined #LGBT community members & allies at the Jackson Heights branch of the Queens Public Library defending #dragstoryhour two years ago today (2.24.23) #LGBTQ

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#DieLinke did well in the #Bundestagswahl, pulling back from the brink; but it's still a #Zionist party committed to #ApartheidIsrael & its #GazaGenocide: #Deutschland ist mitschuldig in #Völkermord~! #Vergangenheitsbewältigung perspektive-online.net/2025/02/die-... www.dielinkebt.de/die-neue-fra...

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#DieLinke did well in the #Bundestagswahl2025, pulling back from the brink; but it's still a #Zionist party committed to #ApartheidIsrael & its #GazaGenocide: #Deutschland ist mitschuldig in #Völkermord~! #Vergangenheitsbewältigung perspektive-online.net/2025/02/die-...

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Charles Quint was born #OnThisDay in 1500, becoming Carlos I of #Spain in 1516 & Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1519; I'm no fan of his but I love this quote attributed to him: "I speak Italian to my lovers, French to my friends, German to my horse & Spanish to God": paulinepark.com/2019/11/17/n...

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#FriedrichMerz led the #CDU to a first-place finish in the #Bundestagswahl2025 but he has limited options for coalition partners & will probably have to invite the #SPD — which suffered the worst #Bundestagswahl defeat in its history — to join him... apnews.com/article/germ...

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I took 11,767 steps in Jackson Heights on Sunday, walking 5.88 miles (9.46 kilometers) (2.23.25) #walking #Spaziergang #spaziergehen

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#Ossies voted overwhelmingly for the #AfD — the wrong response to the legitimate issue of the former East Germany being left behind since the 1990 #Wiedervereinigung: the #fascist party's appeal is overwhelmingly in the former #DDR, as this map shows: apnews.com/article/germ...

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"The UN General Assembly on Monday refused to approve a US-backed resolution that urged an end to the war without mentioning Moscow’s aggression. Instead, it approved a European-backed Ukrainian resolution demanding Russia immediately withdraw its forces": apnews.com/article/un-r...

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Karl von #Habsburg was born #OnThisDay in 1500, becoming Carlos I of #Spain in 1516 & Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1519; he failed to create a universal Christian empire under Habsburg rule, extirpate Protestantism in Germany & defeat France & the Ottoman Empire: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

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#DieLinke has come back from a near death experience to outdo #SahraWagenknecht's #BSW which appears to have fallen short of the 5% threshold to get into the #Bundestag; it's time for the Left party to ditch its #Zionist commitment to #ApartheidIsrael~! portside.org/2025-02-23/l...

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"26 states have enacted laws & policies limiting youth access to gender-affirming care" & "young people who identify as trans or #nonbinary are more likely to attempt suicide in states that pass laws targeting #transgender people" (Cincinnati Enquirer) www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

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Ingwar Perowanowitsch (@Perowinger94): "'Jüngere Frauen in Städten' haben Deutschland heute vor einem noch viel größeren Rechtsruck bewahrt🙏 #Bundestagswahl2025" (younger women in the cities have kept #Germany from swinging even further to the right) #DieLinke #AfD

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#OlafScholz has led the #SPD to the worst #Bundeswahl defeat in its history while the #fascist #AfD reached an unprecedented 19.5% of the vote & #FriedrichMerz has steered the #CDU to the right — a combustible mix that bodes ill for #Germany's future... www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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#OlafScholz has led the #SPD to the worst #Bundeswahl defeat in its history while the #fascist #AfD reached an unprecedented 19.5% of the vote & #FriedrichMerz has steered the #CDU to the right — a combustible mix that bodes ill for #Germany's future... www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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#DonaldTrump is now spouting Kremlin propaganda as he tries to bully #VolodymyrZelensky's #Ukraine into surrendering to #VladimirPutin's #Russia: US imperialism is now perfectly aligned with Russian imperialism & both are a threat to Europe & the world... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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#WinslowHomer was born in Boston #OnThisDay in 1836; one of the greatest of all American artists, Homer's art is exemplified in all its dynamism in paintings such as "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) (1873–76) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow...

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Wilhelm Grimm was born in Germany #OnThisDay in 1786; Wilhelm & his younger brother Jacob Grimm have gone down in history as the Gebrüder Grimm & published the "Kinder- und Hausmärchen" — the most influential collection of fairy tales in world literature: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm...

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"Tout compte fait, nous ne sommes guère beaucoup plus avancé" (all in all, we haven't advanced much), the Captain tells Tintin in "Les Sept Boules de Cristal" (The Seven Crystal Balls): a good summation of where we are politically in the US & in the world today... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLL1...

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#GeorgFriedrichHändel was born in Halle #OnThisDay in 1685; along with Bach, the climax of the #Baroque — as demonstrated by "Per le porte del tormento" from his #opera "Partenope" — sung here by Inger Dam-Jensen & Christophe Dumaux: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3Q... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

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#OnThisDay in 1821, #JohnKeats dies of #tuberculosis at the age of 25, my favorite English poet & the embodiment of Romanticism in #poetry; his poems touch the heights & depths of spirituality & Romantic #Gefühl, as does this poem anticipating his death: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-k...

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#RégineCrespin was born in #France #OnThisDay in 1927, becoming one of the great #opera singers of the 20th c.; I saw her on stage once years ago; here she is singing the Willow Song & Ave Maria from Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello": www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkyl... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9...

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