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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

8 Nov

Tianducheng (杭州天都城), pictured below, is a city in China modeled after Paris. It is almost completely abandoned now.

See the thread for more replicas!

This is a replica of London's Tower Bridge in the Chinese city of Suzhou.

China's Hallstatt, modeled after the small town of Hallstatt in Austria.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

7 Nov

Happy birthday to the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to claim Nobel honors twice, and the only woman to win the award in two different fields: Marie Curie, born #OnThisDay in 1867 in Warsaw.

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"Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds (...) and don't know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory."

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

6 Nov

(Trigger warning) Depressed and unable to hide his increasing infirmity, Beethoven wrote on October 6th 1802 a document entitled "The Heiligenstadt Testament":

“O how harshly was I repulsed by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing...

... and yet it was impossible for me to say to men speak louder, shout, for I am deaf. Ah how could I possibly admit such an infirmity in the one sense which should have been more perfect in me than in others, a sense which I once possessed in highest perfection...

(...) I must live like an exile, if I approach near to people a hot terror seizes upon me, a fear that I may be subjected to the danger of letting my condition be observed.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

6 Nov

An LCVP disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944.

📷 Read and see more in my book, The World Aflame.