Tchaikovsky’s Autograph Containing A Musical Quotation Of His Romeo And Juliet Overture, TH 42, Dated

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if you have 5 minutes...

watch a TED talk

light a candle

paint your nails

put on a hair/face mask

splash your face with cold water

walk around your house

stretch

have a small snack

make a cup of tea/coffee

clear your desk

if you have 10-15 minutes...

watch a longer TED talk

watch a youtube video on studying/something educational

do some yoga

go for a quick run

have a shower

make a smoothie

power nap

workout

organise your desk

if you have 20-35 minutes...

watch a longer TED talk

watch one short episode of a tv programme

do a longer workout

go for a longer run

go for a walk

bake something

call a friend

if you have 40-60 minutes...

watch a documentary

watch one longer episode of a tv programme

go for an even longer walk/run

have a bath

have a one hour nap to help you remember things

Have You Ever Seen An Eclipse From Space? Check It Out

On June 21, 2020 an annular solar eclipse passed over parts of Asia and Africa. Eclipses happen when the Moon lines up just right between the Sun and Earth, allowing it to block out part or all of the Sun’s bright face and cast a shadow on Earth. 

On that day, the International Space Station was orbiting over Kazakhstan and into China when this picture of the solar eclipse shadowing a portion of the Asian continent was captured by an external high definition camera. In the left foreground, is the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 from Japan.

Here is another angle as seen from the orbital lab. In the left foreground, is the Progress 74 resupply ship from Russia.

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‘Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies’ often referred to as the ‘First Folio’, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) published in 1623.

František Kupka (1871–1957) Mme Kupka among Verticals 1910–1911

Oil on canvas 135.5 x 85.3 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York

In exchange for Oscar Wilde to have his pictures taken by the popular photographer Napolean Sarony, he actually signed a contract in 1882, ‘agreeing that he would sit for no other formal portraits, or for any other photographer, while he was in America’.

— David M. Friedman, Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity

MoMA was magical ✨

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

New York Subway Station

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel