A collapsing abandoned theatre, somewhere in Italy
#Abandoned #Italy #Photography #Theatre #ArtNouveau #Theater #LostPlaces #AbandonedPlaces #Collapse #History #Architecture
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Opernabend
18. August 2026, 20:00 Uhr
Wagner, Richard
Götterdämmerung
Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen
Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson
Waltraute: Christa Ludwig
Gunther: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Gutrune: Claire Watson
Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger
Hagen: Gottlob Frick
1. Norn: Helen Watts
2. Norn: Grace Hoffman
3. Norn: Anita Välkki
...
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker
Leitung: Sir Georg Solti
1964
"The hope that the internet would obey rules existed at one end of a spectrum; at the other end was the more widely held enthusiasm for the idea that the internet would be a place without rules."
#art #history: when asked, in 1970, by australian journalist, richard carleton, why the PFLP didn't engage in negotiations with the israeli state, ghassan kanafani (esteemed author & a leading figure of palestine's marxist resistance) explained that to do so would be 'a kind of conversation between the sword & the neck'. ghassan *should have* celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday, but he was assassinated by mossad in 1972.
#ghassanKanafani #literature #palestine #gaza #resistance
Edited 192d ago
13,000 Years Ago, You Could Walk from Sicily to Malta. Now Scientists Are Mapping the Lost Route https://www.byteseu.com/2396021/ #AnatolianArchaeology #ArchaeologyNews #ClassicalArchaeology #culture #EgyptArchaeology #history #Malta #MesopotamiaArchaeology #mythology #Science #Travel
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Prokofiev Symphony No.7
William Weller
the London Symphony Orchestra
1975
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Recorded on December 20, 1941
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Celibidache &
the Berlin Philharmonic
1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGOaTuAesY&list=RDdSGOaTuAesY&start_radio=1
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Beethoven - Violin Concerto, Op. 61
Arthur Grumiaux, violin
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo&list=PL-aKLEHpdXVaNJ0T8D7xA-t9wn8BJFWpM
Found an amazing web site with impressive catalog of poetry and literature in Farsi.
I used to have a very large library when I was in Sweden, and took them with me to US when my company moved me there, but I had to gave them away when I went back to take care of my parents, I only kept a few books of Khayyam and Hafez with me.
Finding this site is like a dream come true. It has search function too and sorting the poets based on the timeline, from 11th century to 21st.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Emil Gilels, piano
Orchestre National de la RTF
André Cluytens, conductor
Live rec. Paris, 1960
🛀 Bathhouse Number 8, Tskaltubo, Georgia
Part of an extensive Soviet health resort, facility fell into ruin after the USSR's collapse in 1991.
The space is an empty ruin, but there are several beautiful details. The dividing walls feature fascinating stylised deer murals. Also shrubs and a small sapling grow in the centre, nature reclaiming concrete.
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/bathhouse-number-8-tskaltubo-georgia/
Old photographs are the only thing that makes the past feel inhabited rather than documented. 1884 looks like a fact until someone stares back from it. #photography #history
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I've been uploading #hacking magazines from #China, some of which have been removed for reasons I don't understand, to Internet Archive. This is a decent scan of an issue of Hacker Defence (or Hacker Defence Line?) from I think the early to mid 00s.
#hacker #history
https://archive.org/details/hacker_defence_unknown
Vin Mariani was an extremely popular wine created in the 1860s. Pope Leo XIII purportedly carried a hipflask of Vin Mariani with him, and Thomas Edison credited it with helping him work through the night. It had 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine.
Going to Venice this summer?
Interested in history?
Book a tour with me, and I'll talk you ears off.
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Opernabend
20. August 2026, 20:00 Uhr
Boito, Arrigo
Mefistofele
Mefistofele: Nicolai Ghiaurov
Faust: Luciano Pavarotti
Margherita: Mirella Freni
Marta: Nucci Condò
Wagner: Piero de Palma
Elena: Montserrat Caballé
Pantalis: Della Jones
Nerèo: Robin Leggate
London Opera Chorus, Trinity BoysChoir, National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leitung: Oliviero de Fabritiis
Jahr 1982
„Gartenpavillon im Park Sanssouci“
#Fotovorschlag #ProtzundPrunk #Potsdam #Sanssouci #ParkSanssouci #Brandenburg #Germany #Deutschland #Travel #TravelPhotography #Architecture #Architektur #Rococo #Rokoko #Baroque #History #HistoricPlaces #Pavilion #Gold #Scenery #Sightseeing #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #venstervrijdag #leicaapp #photography #fediverse #pixelfed
#Fotovorschlag #ProtzundPrunk #Potsdam #Sanssouci #ParkSanssouci #Brandenburg #Germany #Deutschland #Travel #TravelPhotography #Architecture #Architektur #Rococo #Rokoko #Baroque #History #HistoricPlaces #Pavilion #Gold #Scenery #Sightseeing #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #venstervrijdag #leicaapp #photography #fediverse #pixelfed
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RIP
"Die größte Sopranistin ihrer Generation: Zum Tod von Ileana Cotrubaș"
Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀
(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)
If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊
"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.
But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.
In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.
So they came to #Gallaudet.
Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.
NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.
Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.
No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.
Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.
They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.
Now you know!"
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Mátyás Seiber - Fantasia Concertante
André Gertler, violin
Symphony Orchestra of the Capital City of Prague
Václav Smetáček
rec. 1976
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
Toccata from the Symphonie Concertante Op. 81
Virgil Fox, organ
Date: 28-31 August 1977
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Sir Henry Wood, conducting
Queen's Hall Orchestra
Recorded in May 3, 1935