Keep calm and... that's all

The New York Times poster encouraging the public to read books during summer featuring an illustration of William Shakespeare and a quote from Sonnet 18 (1966). Artwork by Bill Sokol.

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İstanbul'un Kubbeleri

Katya Kalyska

—Leo Tolstoy

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” ― Mary Wortley Montagu

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Yevgeny Charushin. Illustrations for Nikolai Sladkov's "A Hedgehog Was Running Down the Path".

Snippets of Home

Perched Female White-throated Mountain Gem by Jeff Dyck Via Flickr: A perched female White-throated Mountaingem in the cloud forest of Costa Rica’s central valley

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This is a leucistic Waxeye or Tauhou found in Wellington, New Zealand! Tauhou are usually olive-green and grey, however this individual has a genetic mutation stopping pigment from being properly deposited on feathers. (source here)

by Kelly Louise Judd