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Hello to all,

I'm Saschaporsche, started my first Wiki changes in 2008, made my first page in 2009. I really enjoy taking part in this great project ! Please do feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my contributions! Kind regards,

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Wild alpha male chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) at Kibale forest National Park, Uganda

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"When you go home tell them of us and say: for your tomorrow we gave our today"
author: John Maxwell Edmonds,
inscribed on a war memorial in Westbury-on-Trym

Funeral blues , W.H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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Read: Desiderata, (Latijn voor "dingen waarnaar verlangd wordt"), a beautiful special poem!

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann, 1948

Remarkeble:

A Róbert Berény painting titled Sleeping Lady with Black Vase, whose whereabouts had been unknown since 1928, was re-discovered by chance in 2009 by art historian Gergely Barki upon watching the 1999 movie, Stuart Little, with his daughter, where the painting was used as a prop. An assistant set designer had bought the painting cheaply from a California antique store for use in the film, and had kept it in her home after production ended. The painting was sold at auction in Budapest on December 13th, 2014 for €229,500.

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O'Donel Levy "O'Donel 'Butch' Levy" (Baltimore (Maryland), 20 september 1945 – 14 maart 2016) was een Amerikaanse funk, -r&b- en jazzgitarist. Played at the saxophone bar in Singapore in the nineties! R.I.P.

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So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking,
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older;
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Time (Pink Floyd song)

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• List of non-standard dates

February 31 on a tombstone

Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, GA. Sadly demolished in july 2022

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Georgia Guidestones

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000

In perpetual balance with nature

Guide reproduction wisely —

Improving fitness and diversity

Unite humanity with a living

New language

Rule passion — faith — tradition

And all things

With tempered reason

Protect people and nations

With fair laws and just courts

Let all nations rule internally

Resolving external disputes

In a world court

Avoid petty laws and useless

officials

Balance personal rights with

Social duties.

Prize truth — beauty — love —

Seeking harmony with the

Infinite

Be not a cancer on the earth —

Leave room for nature —

Leave room for nature

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Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings. The Adagio for Strings is "full of pathos and cathartic passion" and that it "rarely leaves a dry eye".

• MP3 version by Modern Strings, free download for personal use

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serious stuff: Cathay Pacific Flight 780

This user enjoys the
Picture of the Day.

List of notable lost artworks

See also: List of stolen paintings

• Missing works with the highest estimated market values
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  Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael
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  Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco by Caravaggio Est. (2006) US$20,000,000
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  Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt Est. (2006) priceless
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  Landscape with an Obelisk by Govert Flinck Est. (2006) priceless
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  The Concert by Vermeer Est. $20,000,000–priceless
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  Alexander III Commemorative egg by Fabergé Est. $20–30,000,000
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  Royal Danish egg (Danish Jubilee egg) by Fabergé Est. $20–30,000,000
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  Vase with Lychnis by Van Gogh
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  Chez Tortoni by Édouard Manet Est. (2006) priceless
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  White Duck by Jean-Baptiste Oudry Est. (2006) US$8,800,000
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  View of Auvers-sur-Oise by Cézanne Est. (2006) US$3,000,000
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  Marcel Duchamp Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. The backdrop is The Warriors by Marsden Hartley.

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things i like:

Lady Godiva by John Collier, ca. 1898

Francesco Guardi - The Doge on the Bucentaur at San Niccolò del Lido

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III demonstrating the use of reverse thrust to push the aircraft backwards

Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot (the blueish-white speck approximately halfway down the brown band to the right) within the darkness of deep space.

Orion in the 9th century Leiden Aratea

Stowe House The north or entrance front in 1750. Major alterations were made after that date.

European robin

The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli. The goddess Venus is the classical personification of beauty. The painting is in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

TF-104G Starfighter (front) with NASA NB-52B in flight 1979.

B-52H (AF Ser. No. 61-0023), configured at the time as a testbed to investigate structural failures, still flying after its vertical stabilizer sheared off in severe turbulence on 10 January 1964. The aircraft landed safely

Saurer Alsa coach of the line Oviedo-Cangas del Narcea in 1923

Two USAF F-5Es flanking a MiG-17 and MiG-21 of the 4477th Tactical Evaluation Squadron

Carl Spitzweg, The Bookworm

Queen's House, the Tulip Stairs and lantern; the first centrally unsupported helical stairs constructed in England. The stairs are supported by a combination of support by cantilever from the walls and each tread resting on the one below.

Panorama of Noravank monastery and Amaghu valley

Auriga

Orion

F8 6F Sabre - Chino Airshow 2014

Vincent van Gogh - The yellow house

The southern Drygalski Mountains in NW direction. The peak on the right is the Ulvetanna Peak.

Custos Messium and the likewise-obsolete constellation of Tarandus depicted above Camelopardalis.

Vulcan bomber "XM598" at RAF Cosford

Rembrandt self-portrait in Buckland Abbey museum

Emilio Materassi during the 1927 Targa Florio in his winning Bugatti Type 37

Former Qantas 707-138B then owned by John Travolta at the 2007 Paris Air Show

Three Sisters (Alberta)

Louis d'or of Louis XIII(1640), first year of issue, Paris Mint.

Bagrati Cathedral

'A Boy Drinking' by Annibale Carracci

Janis Joplin photographed by Jim Marshall in 1969

Khuha Kharuehat pavilion, Phraya Nakhon Cave in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park

1965-05-09 Targa Florio winner Ferrari 330 P2 0828 Vaccarella Bandini passing in Collesano

Targa Florio Collesano Ferrari P4 0846 Vaccarella Scarfiotti

Nino Vaccarella walks away from his damaged Ferrari 330 P4 during the 1967 Targa Florio

Pingüinos de El Cabo (Spheniscus demersus), Playa de Boulders, Simon's Town, Sudáfrica

Red and white tulip at Myddelton House, Enfield, London

Porsche 997 MK1

Ferrari 250 LM, Lime Rock 2014

Francesco Guardi, A Colonnade, Partly Ruined, with Figures

Presentation at the Temple by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1342 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

African fish eagle

La cumparsita, a beautiful tango by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez. I do like the version by José Basso listen here:

De iconische foto Le Violon d'Ingres van fotograaf Man Ray is geveild (mei 2022) voor een recordbedrag van 12,4 miljoen dollar. Dat gebeurde in veilinghuis Christie's in New York. Nooit eerder werd er zoveel geld neergelegd voor een foto.

"Approaching the fowl with stalking-horse", an 1875 illustration of a cut-out horse shape used in hunting

Bentley S2 Continental by Park Ward, 1962

Rembrandt, Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee

Inverted Jenny,(also known as an Upside Down Jenny, Jenny Invert) is a 24 cent United States postage stamp first issued on May 10, 1918, in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design is printed upside-down; it is one of the most famous errors in American philately.

A composite image of an Alliance Airlines Fokker 70 on final approach at Christmas Island Airport, illustrating the approach slope to the runway

Salvador Dali, 1934

F-117 Nighthawk showing the American Flag

1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta, winner of the first race at Watkins Glen in 1948, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance "Best of Show" 2008 and Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este

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KC-10 from 2nd Air Refueling Squadron prepares to refuel a B-2 bomber

Henri Greder and Jean-Michel Giorgi placed fifth at the 1967 Targa Florio in a Ford GT40

The Treasury, as seen from as-Siq, right before the passage ends

John Gould's early 1800s painting of a superb lyrebird specimen at the British Museum