picture book june 2016

Again, the news is predictably terrible. The constantly brutal assault of terror, tragedy and timid responses, dulls the senses. So rather than doing the same, I gathered a few interesting pictures and videos that might instead spur imagination.
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 Yesterday was Bloomsday, celebrated all over the world, but especially in Dublin.

People are gathering across the city to celebrate #Bloomsday! A not so ordinary day in #Dublinhttps://t.co/M0yFaCFOvP

— discoverireland.ie (@discoverirl) June 16, 2016

Coloring books have started trending. Here's one that looks interesting.

Just released COLOR ME JUNG Mandala coloring book and quotes #Jung https://t.co/FAadvlSmzl pic.twitter.com/6wikuN59HT

— Inner City Books (@InnerCityBooks) June 8, 2016

An odd relic is the Voynich Manuscript. It's written in no known language. Some think it may be a copy of an ancient herbal medicine book. Scholars remain divided.

#ThrowbackThursday #VoynichManuscript analyzed mathematically & linguistically ... language behaves like its real. pic.twitter.com/xLqPf7UNfd

— John Moffitt (@JohnRMoffitt) May 19, 2016

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Here's a video of the length of the Suez Canal from space.

Clear skies as we float across the Suez Canal, Egypt.https://t.co/hE34TDcqFY

— Jeff Williams (@Astro_Jeff) May 27, 2016

It turns out that a dagger found with Ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamen is made of a meteorite. Not of this world.

King Tut's dagger came from outer space. Literally. https://t.co/gLPyjPyBDK pic.twitter.com/vU05FWVzC4

— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) June 2, 2016

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Too late to rock the casbah?

Qajar, Iran, Shadi Ghadirian, 1998https://t.co/vOXCgGV5IJ pic.twitter.com/mjGgtHwtek

— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 25, 2016

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French labor protests bring thousands into the streets.

Stunning @AFPphoto from French labour reform protests. Like something out of The Watchmen pic.twitter.com/BnVH374GIQ

— Jerome Taylor (@JeromeTaylor) May 28, 2016

Paris on June 14.

#France: After police charges and brutality, the contingent now in #Paris. #manif14juin #LoiTravail via @VBoudghene pic.twitter.com/UzVhrCBuxH

— ѕyndιcalιѕт (@syndicalisms) June 14, 2016

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Springtime Monet.

🔵✨ Imitiamo la natura, essa ci insegna sempre ad agire nel modo più semplice.

🎨 Claude Monet, 1866#DayAfterART pic.twitter.com/eiIXCvZs9x

— Patrizio__Ranieri (@Dayafter2012) May 18, 2016

This one's by Dmitry Levin.

Художник Дмитрий Левин pic.twitter.com/g4E8C0EJcE

— Сергей Михайлушкин (@MixajlushkinSer) May 31, 2016