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Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stuck in space during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unable to return home, he ended up having to stay in space until further notice. The cosmonaut eventually returned back to earth on March 25, 1992, after 10 months in orbit - to a nation that was very different to what it was when he had left. The Soviet Union had fractured into 15 nations, presidents had changed, and even his hometown of Leningrad had become St. Petersburg. Interestingly, at the time, Krikalev was supposed to serve in the military reserves, and was almost issued a warrant for desertion – before the army realised that their reserve soldier was not even on the planet.

The surface of Mars, captured by the Curiosity rover.

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Footage of earth during a spacewalk on ISS.

Russian president Vladimir Putin waving goodbye to his friend, Kim Jong Un.

Summer evening on the beach at Skagen. The painter and his wife. P. S. Krøyer, 1899.

Dual portrait of Marie and P.S. Krøyer, 1890. Krøyer painted Marie, and Marie painted him. They were husband and wife, and part of the group of artists that became known as the Skagen Painters.

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«There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them.» - Sir Roger Scruton. Vicar’s Close, built over 600 years ago in Wells England, is the oldest residential street with original buildings intact in Europe. Labor was limited, dangerous and expensive, and materials had to be locally sourced and were finite. And still, we built gorgeous structures such as this.

Dresden, Germany. None of these buildings existed just 25 years ago. But 80 years ago, they did. Until they were bombed to bits in WW2.

Transformation of a modernist bloc in Berlin, Germany, using the the classical technique of Trompe l'œil. Trompe l'œil is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface.

The Neue Elbbrücke Bridge in Hamburg, Germany. The original design was completed in 1887 and featured two Gothic gateways. Destroyed in 1959 to add an additional lane.

D’oh! Art by Jardinon

What happens when somebody tries to be serious online in Flight Simulator X.

How armadillos gather foliage for their nests

The door to the dining area of the Alcobaça monastery in Portugal was made narrow so that monks who got too fat were forced to go into fasting.

There are bitcoiners continuously calling for free speech on a centralized platform when they could put that effort into studying and contributing to Nostr Why?

Women eating spaghetti on air matresses. Somewhere in Italy, 1939.