#OnThisDay in 1789, the First Congress under our current Constitution meets in its first joint session in New York and undertook an important order of business: confirming George Washington’s election as president.

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The dangerous waters of this natural wonder live up to their godly namesake. atlasobscura.com/places/thor-s-…

Orpheopolis: France's unique orphanage for police children bbc.in/3U5lZIk

absolutely boneless

This is the proper use of a drone- 😂❤️

Model built and flown by Otto Dieffenbach.

Pyritized Ammonite Fossil

📹Rocks for the Spirit

Katzenbalgen (“Cat Brawl”) stands as a purr-fectly whimsical cat monument in the Brunswick's feline-named Kattreppeln Street. atlasobscura.com/places/katzenb…

'Lone sunset' by contemporary US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

A sea of hydrangeas at sunset

Sea of Lilies in Namibia

Glitch in the matrix

Using simple methods for sorting fruit & Vegtables by size when the high tech equipment isn't available. 🫡

The shadow of a millipede walking

📹Crystal Allbright

REMINDER: The vast majority of Jan 6 'hostages' voluntarily went to jail by pleading guilty.

Scholars had already been working on a new type of writing for decades, even before the press was invented.

It was much simpler, more legible, and took up less space.

And they called it 'Roman' because it was how they thought the Ancient Romans had written Latin.

I am once again asking FTC to break up PBMs, like Optum and CVS Caremark and Express Scripts. Reign in these mega corporations/cartels that provide no value to patients and are extorting health care workers and small businesses.

Fed up cat mom finally finds her kitten.. 😅

Nicholas Buck Piovan performs a duet with a cockatiel, singing the 'Cheers Song' from 'La Traviata' while accompanied by a piano.

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Skiing on dunes of the Acari Desert, Peru.

📹 candidethovex

On this day in 1865, the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery. How Slavery continued after the 13th amendment ‘abolished slavery’

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