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‘Les Plèiades; D'après la carte dressée par M.C.Wolt, comprenant les 571 ètoiles de 3e à 13e grandeur visibles à l'aide d'un tèlescope de 31 centimètres d'ouverture ‘engraved print 1877

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Saudade was once described as “the love that remains” after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (e.g., one’s children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends, pets) or something (e.g., places, things one used to do in childhood, or other activities performed in the past) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. It brings sad and happy feelings altogether, sadness for missing and happiness for having experienced the feeling.

Flowers float in the Mediterranean Sea in honor of refugees lost while making the perilous journey to Europe. Last night more than 80 Syrians and Palestinians refugees have drowned in the Mediterranean close to the Libyan shores trying to reach Europe.

UZBEKISTAN. Kubla Ustyurt. 2010.