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Wednesday 5 July 2017

Going Back Is The New Going Forward (The words of the prophets)

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An elderly Iraqi woman who fled Islamic State carries a baby, as Iraqi forces uproot the last militants from Mosul: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017
 

Iraqi forces push Islamic State into a shrinking pocket, with militants and civilians packed in densely together.: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017

 
#Iraq A member of Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) advances in the Old City of Mosul during #MosulOffensive. Photo Fadel Senna #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017



#Iraq Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service take position inside a house in the Maidan district in Mosul during #MosulOffensive.  Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017


#Iraq An Iraqi man pushes an injured man on a cart as they evacuate civilians in the Old City of Mosul. Photo Fadel Senna #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017


Civilians flee through destroyed streets in the Old City of #Mosul as Iraqi soldiers battle #IslamicState Photo @felipedana @AP_Images
: image via SundayTimesPIctures @STPictures, 5 July 2017



Civilians flee through destroyed streets in the Old City of #Mosul as Iraqi soldiers battle #IslamicState Photo @felipedana @AP_Images
: image via SundayTimesPIctures @STPictures, 5 July 2017



Civilians flee through destroyed streets in the Old City of #Mosul as Iraqi soldiers battle #IslamicState Photo @felipedana @AP_Images
: image via SundayTimesPIctures @STPictures, 5 July 2017



Civilians flee through destroyed streets in the Old City of #Mosul as Iraqi soldiers battle #IslamicState Photo @felipedana @AP_Images
: image via SundayTimesPIctures @STPictures, 5 July 2017



An #Iraqi youth carries a child while evacuating from the Old City of #Mosul @ahmedafp @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPIctures @STPictures, 4 July 2017


Beachgoers gather at Coney Island in Brooklyn, and more scenes of #July4 celebration across America: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017


#Mexico Men scattered while trying to cross into Texas with a US Border Patrol helicopter flying overhead. By @WilliamWidmer @nytimesphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 5 July 2017


  
Technology from the war in Afghanistan is now used on our border with Mexico. Pix @WilliamWidmer @nytimesphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 20 June 2017



Technology from the war in Afghanistan is now used on our border with Mexico. Pix @WilliamWidmer @nytimesphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 20 June 2017




Joey Chestnut wins Nathan's #July4 hot dog eating contest on Coney Island for the 10th time: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017



Joey Chestnut wins Nathan's #July4 hot dog eating contest on Coney Island for the 10th time: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017
 

Kim Jong Un reacts after the test-launch of the ICBM Hwasong-14, which North Korea says can carry a nuclear warhead: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017



Fireworks cap Fourth of July celebrations across America: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017



Fireworks cap Fourth of July celebrations across America: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017



Fireworks cap Fourth of July celebrations across America: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 July 2017


#China A general view from Victoria Peak shows Victoria Harbour and the skylines of the Kowloon district and Hong Kong island. Photo @AntAFP #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017


GAZA CITY - A Palestinian boy plays with a donkey in the sea at sunset. Photo @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017


#India A vendor pushes a bicycle carrying his wares through floodwaters in Balimukh Ashigarh village. Photo @BoroBiju @AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017



#India Indian villagers carry the dismantled roof of their house through floodwaters in Balimukh Ashigarh village. Photo @BoroBiju @AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017


JERUSALEM - Visitors tour the newly opened Sea Israel Gottesman Aquarium in Jerusalem. @ahmadgharabli4 #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017



#South Sudan A displaced woman recovers from a suspected cholera infection in a relative's house in Padding. Photo @AlbertGFarran #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017



#South Sudan Relatives assist a 26-year-old mother of four, after being infected with #malaria in Padding, South Sudan: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 July 2017


N.Korea's Kim says ICBM a 'gift' to 'American bastards' #AFP A North Korean soldier gestures near the banks of the Yalu river Photo @NAsfouri: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 July 2017


#Syria A general view of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo as seen from a high-rise building on July 4. Photo @JOSEPHEID1: image via Aurelia BAILLY, 5 July 2017



#Guatemala Inmates escaped from Las Gaviotas Male Juvenile Detention Centre during a riot stand on the roof near Guatemala City. Photo @johanordonez #AFP: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017

  
#USA A person walks past a picture of the Statue of Liberty spray painted on a abandoned building in New York. Photo @timothyjclary: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 2017



#Venezuela A protester before a rally against Maduro. 'The situation is very tough and we are going hungry. We need a change’ By C.G. Rawlins: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 5 July 2017 



A masked demonstrator stands at smouldering barricade by the Electoral Power HQ, in #Caracas Photo @mgutierrezphoto @epaphotos: image via SundayTimesPIctures @STPictures, 3 July 2017



#Venezuela Opposition activists take part in an anti-government protest in Caracas. Photo @jbarreto1974: image via Frédérique GeffardAFP, 5 July 201
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Hundreds of people painted like clay figures move through the streets of Hamburg to protest against the G-20 summit: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 5 July 2017

 
Arrived to Hamburg #G20. While Erdoğan, Putin and Trump are asleep, #DiEM25 and thousands of activists are awake.: image via Srecko Horvat @HorvatSrecko, 5 July 2017


Bravo @Catalina _M_Con receiving the prestigious Canon Female Photojournalist Award, supported by @ELLEfrance! @visapoutlimage 2017: image via Jean-Francois Leroy @jf_leroy, 3 July 2017


Life-size reproduction of a Neanderthal man, Homo neanderthalensis, dressed in modern suit in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany: image via History @HistoryTime, 2 July 2017

 

Life-size reproduction of a Neanderthal man, Homo neanderthalensis, dressed in modern suit in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany: image via History @HistoryTime, 2 July 2017


Life-size reproduction of a Neanderthal man, Homo neanderthalensis, dressed in modern suit in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany: image via History @HistoryTime, 2 July 2017



Life-size reproduction of a Neanderthal man, Homo neanderthalensis, dressed in modern suit in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany: image via History @HistoryTime, 2 July 2017


The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sound of silence: image via Ross Barnett @DeepFriedDNA, 4 October 2015


#thylastream Dogs had mixed feelings about thylacines. Some dogs were extremely wary, whilst others interacted through zoo fences.: image via Beth Windle @WindleBeth, 2 July 2017


#thylastream No data attached to photo, but this is really nice preserved specimen. Look at that fur! Possible wet specimen?: image via Beth Windle @WindleBeth, 3 July 2017



Here is the same head with some information! Replying to @WindleBeth: image via Baroness 1898 @Skylacine, 3 July 2017


Did you know Mary Roberts walked a thylacine around her Battery Point zoo on a leash?: image via TMAG @tasmuseum, 21 June 2017



#thylastream A possible WILD photo of a thylacine depicted on the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club Membership Certificate 1910.: image via Beth Windle @WindleBeth, 3 July 2017


Meet the gorgeous Chamois, an ice age survivor! Image by @David_Bressan: image via Twilight Beasts @TwilightBeasts, 27 June 2017


Have you met the beautiful Chamois yet? (Photo Manfred Werner): image via Twilight Beasts @TwilightBeasts, 30 June 2017


Although I never found any field signs of chamois in this forest several individuals were detected by my #cameratrap: image via Fridolin Zimermann @ZiFridolin, 1 July 2017



Although I never found any field signs of chamois in this forest several individuals were detected by my #cameratrap: image via Fridolin Zimmermann @ZiFridolin, 1 July 2017
 

Chauvet Cave in southern France contains more than 60 images of the woolly rhinoceros. The images are more than 30,000 years old #IceAgeArt: image via The Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward_, 2 July 2017


RT @TwilightBeasts: 30k yrs ago in France, Woolly Rhinoceros in cave (Img Wiki user Inocybe): image via March Bracke @ MarkBracke 30 June 2017


81-year-old Charles Willson Peale raises curtain on his museum of natural history. In foreground, his fave mastodon bone and a dead turkey: image via Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens,4 July 2017


#July4 Washington's Eagle, described by John James Audubon in 1836... never again seen since then...: image via David Bressan @David_Bressan, 4 July 2017


Fucks sake Timmy: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 3 July 2017


The tree-climbing plesiosaur, the crazy-paving deer, the polaroid-skinned sloth and the turtle-land-fish. 1800s slides in #MMObjectLessons: image via Jack Ashby @JackDAshby, 4 July 2017



This curvaceous mammoth ivory figure - the Venus of Hohle Fels - is the oldest known depiction of a human. It is 40,000 years old #Ice AgeArt: image via The Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward_, 4 July 2017

 

Basically a renaissance painting: image via Simon Lewis @sv_lewis, 27 June 2017


George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic: image via Marina Amaral @marinamaral2, 24 June 2017


[Untitled]: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 5 July 2017


Ok: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong, 5 July 2017



TRUMP HAS MAMMOTH ASS, AND VISIBLE PANTY LINE: image via Cher @cher, 23 June 2017
 

"Dammit Carol, I've had a drink.....we are not going to your sister's": image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong, 4 July 2017


2 reintroduced Ib #Lynx females in #Extremadura give birth to at least 5 kits in wild in June, 3rd year in row this has happened #rewilding: image via Ian Parsons @Birder_Griffon, 4 July 2017


In Irish the goldfinch is "An Lasair Choille", meaning 'The Flame of the Forest', 'The Light of the Woods'. Thank you @Oomomo_san: image via Robert Macfarlane @RobGMacfarlane, 4 July 2017 


Carduelis carduelis. European Goldfinch.: image via Ross Barnett #DeepFriedDNA, 4 July 2017 



Carduelis carduelis. European Goldfinch.: image via Ross Barnett #DeepFriedDNA, 4 July 2017


Siskin and goldfinches: image via Ross Barnett #DeepFriedDNA, 4 July 2017


Siskin and goldfinches: image via Ross Barnett #DeepFriedDNA, 4 July 2017 

. | by Julie Paterson

[Untitled]
: photo by Julie Patterson, 5 July 2017


South 4th Avenue | by GC_Dean

South 4th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 July 2017

South 4th Avenue | by GC_Dean

South 4th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 July 2017

South 4th Avenue | by GC_Dean  
South 4th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 July 2017

More 'Murican Than Thou | by rickele

More 'Murican Than Thou. Point Arena, California
: photo by Rick Ele, 5 July 2017


More 'Murican Than Thou | by rickele

More 'Murican Than Thou. Point Arena, California
: photo by Rick Ele, 5 July 2017


More 'Murican Than Thou | by rickele

More 'Murican Than Thou. Point Arena, California
: photo by Rick Ele, 5 July 2017


Broken Window Theory | by rickele

Broken Window Theory. Jesus and me / in the broken window / of a shuttered junk shop / Point Arena, California
: photo by  Rick Ele, 5 July 2017


Los Angeles | by ADMurr

Los Angeles [Hollywood Hills, Spanish revival]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 2 July 2017


An American fence | by ADMurr

An American fence [LA]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 July 2017


Cream, chestnut, repeat | by ADMurr

Cream, chestnut, repeat [Western, south LA]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 July 2017


New Sky | by ADMurr

New Sky [Melrose, LA]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 July 2017


Yazoo City | by ADMurr

Yazoo City [Mississippi Delta]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 3 July 2017


Los Angeles | by ADMurr

Los Angeles [Griffith Park, Hollywood Hills, Frank Lloyd Wright]: photo by Andrew Murr, 3 July 2017

Untitled | by aikithereska

Closure: photo by Therese, 19 June 2017

Untitled | by aikithereska

Closure
: photo by Therese, 19 June 2017


Untitled | by aikithereska

Closure
: photo by Therese, 19 June 2017


Untitled | by aikithereska

[hotel window, alexandria, va.]: photo by Therese, 5 June 2017

Untitled | by aikithereska

[Untitled]
: photo by Therese, 19 June 2017


Untitled | by aikithereska

[Untitled]
: photo by Therese, 19 June 2017


Untitled | by aikithereska

[Untitled]
: photo by Therese, 19 June 2017


radish 09213 | by m.r. nelson

radish 09123
: photo by m.r. nelson, 25 June 2017


radish 09213 | by m.r. nelson

radish 09123
: photo by m.r. nelson, 25 June 2017


radish 09213 | by m.r. nelson

radish 09123
: photo by m.r. nelson, 25 June 2017



Importance of Seeing the Trauma: The Video of #DiamondReynolds and Daughter in a Squad Car #WendyKozol #RebeccaAdelman: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 5 July 2017

City | by efo

City. South San Francisco, The Industrial City. Sign Hill Park.
: photo by efo, 5 July 2017


City | by efo

City. South San Francisco, The Industrial City. Sign Hill Park.: photo by efo, 5 July 2017

City | by efo

City. South San Francisco, The Industrial City. Sign Hill Park.: photo by efo, 5 July 2017

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