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#Repost @cisco with @repostapp. ・・・ #MayThe4thBeWithYou to organize this mess! #CableWednesday🚀🌌
that moment when you capture lighting on your screen
#Repost @reuters with @repostapp. ・・・ Stray dogs run at dog sanctuary Territorio de Zaguates or 'Land of the Strays' in Carrizal de Alajuela, Costa Rica, April 20, 2016. In a lush, sprawling corner of Costa Rica, hundreds of dogs roam freely on a hillside - among the luckiest strays on earth. Fed, groomed and cared for by vets, more than 750 dogs rescued from the streets of Costa Rica inhabit Territorio de Zaguates or 'Land of the Strays', a pooch paradise. The 152-hectare sanctuary in the centre of the Central American country is funded by donations. Around 8,000 dogs have passed through the refuge. There are more than a million stray dogs in Costa Rica, where the government outlawed putting animals down in 2003. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate #dogs #stray #reutersphotos #picoftheday #K9_haven
Get lost in this immersive Mars panorama from NASA’s rover
An epic panorama from the Curiosity rover puts a good-size chunk of Mars all up in your face.
"They should put Prince on the 20 dollar bill and call it $19.99. It will be the bill formally known as twenty." --John Dee
#Repost @robinsharma with @repostapp. ・・・ Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.
#Repost @robinsharma with @repostapp. ・・・ Your #DailyKickstart: Ideas don’t work for people unwilling to do the work.
#Repost @benmulwa with @repostapp. ・・・ People don't cry because they're weak, but because they have been strong for too long.
#Repost @theeconomist with @repostapp. ・・・ A pat on the back. This week's KAL's Cartoon, April 23rd 2016 #TheEconomist #KAL #Obama
#Repost @nasa with @repostapp. ・・・ Most of the cosmic rays that we detect at Earth originated relatively recently in nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new research. This image shows a cluster of massive stars seen with the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust called a nebula. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains the central cluster of huge, hot stars, called NGC 3603. Credits: NASA/U. Virginia/INAF, Bologna, Italy/USRA/Ames/STScI/AURA #nasa #space #astronomy #earth #stars #hubble #hst #science
#Repost @mohdmoha with @repostapp. ・・・ Have you ever thought of swimming with the biggest creature on earth #TheWhaleShark ? It weighs over 30 metric tonnes, lives over 70years, has a 1.5m wide mouth; don't get close to the mouth. Watch the story in Kenya south coastal area of #Tiwi on this link https://youtu.be/MrF6m7GBFJE only on @tvcnews (Search on you tube Swimming With sharks TVC News) #IndianOcean #WhaleShark #SwimmingWithSharks #WorldMotherEarthDay #tweegram #amazing #dive #instafollow #instalike #igers #igerskenya #instagood #bestoftheday #instacool #fun
Classic left brain vs right brain dichotomy Organic vs Generic
#Repost @realtalkkim with @repostapp. ・・・ It's tight but it's right... #LoveYouTho #realtalkkim #realtalk
#Repost @kambuamuziki with @repostapp. ・・・ You heard? 👂 OK, as you were…
#GoingHard
#Excellence
#Repost @heatherllove with @repostapp. ・・・ Are you as hungry for God during the "good days?" Or, have you learned to live without praying because you don't think you need Him then? From my sermon on YouTube, "Empty Words." 💜
#Repost @robinsharma with @repostapp. ・・・ Your #DailyKickstart #HelloFear
#Repost @brightgameli with @repostapp. ・・・ Heeeeeeeaaaarrrrrddd??????? #randompicsifind
#Repost @robinsharma with @repostapp. ・・・ Your #DailyKickstart: We create that which we fear. All behavior is a demonstration of our psychology. So get to work on acknowledging and then releasing your fears. #HelloFear
Iko shida hapa
A celebrated Kenyan cartoonist has lost his slot
Why?
A celebrated Kenyan cartoonist has lost his slot
Why?
This is Toussaint L’Ouverture.
1. The Louisiana Purchase may not have been made had it not been for Toussaint L’Ouverture.
2. L’Ouverture freed the slaves of Haiti in the only permanently successful slave revolt in history.
3. He developed the idea of dominion status for Haiti as part of France. Rejected by Napoleon, the idea subsequently was used by Great Britain 66 years later on July 1, 1862, when Canada became the first dominion.
4. He wrote the first constitution for Haiti. It was the second constitution for a republic in the Western Hemisphere.
5. He was the greatest Black general in history, except for Hannibal 2000 years earlier.
6. He was the most outstanding Black statesman in history.
7. He possessed outstanding ability as a civil administrator.
8. He set up the first legal code for Haiti.
9. He devised the first universal school system for Black people.
10. He dealt with the first five presidents of the United States or their representatives, either when they were in that office or when they were Secretary of State.
11. He was the first Black man to be the subject of poems by two of America’s leading poets.
12. He was the only Black general to defeat three of the world’s biggest armies: French, British and Spanish.
13. He declared emancipation for slaves 61 years before U.S. president Abraham Lincoln did so.
14. He devised a plan for how slaves could gain economic freedom, before those rights were granted in any other country.
15. By bringing the freedom of slaves to the world’s attention, L’Ouverture’ example helped other worldwide liberation movements develop (women’s right to vote and other women’s issues, child labor laws, environmental movements and others).
16. He caused European governments for the first time to deal with the aspirations of Black colonial people. His example was followed by Simon Bolivar in South America, Russians with serfs, British in India, and Boers in South Africa (due to Gandhi’s leadership).
17. Set up the first new and simplified tax code.
18. He got rid of corrupt French tax collectors in Haiti. Substituted clear-cut tax rules.
19. He promulgated and administered new laws with justice (unique for colonials).
20. He improved the quality of slaves’ lives measurably. Gave them pride as members of society.
21. He was the “First one who brought guerrilla warfare to the notice of military historians. He used strict discipline and precision with athletic prowess.”
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology
W.H.Auden (via science-junkie)
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