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18 Sep, 11 tweets, 3 min read
Is it me or most Azerbaijani monuments in foreign countries dedicated to Nizami Ganjavi?

I would like to see new faces as well.
Just look at this.

Nizami Ganjavi monument in Rome
Nizami Ganjavi monument in Saint Petersburg
Nizami Ganjavi monument in Tashkent
Nizami Ganjavi monument in Cheboksary, Russia
Nizami Ganjavi monument in Moscow
Nizami Ganjavi monument in Chisinau, Moldova
Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Beijing
Nizami Ganjavi monument in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Nizami Ganjavi monument in Derbent, Russia
And there's one under construction in Kyiv.

Seriously...are we going to have Nizami Ganjavi statues in each city of the world?

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It even sounds better in Deutsch:

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* I actually like Hawaiian pizza

* Raisin cookies are far better than chocolate chip cookies
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18 Sep
Good point.

On a very serious note, animals trigger similar neural pathways to the parent-baby bond, and reduce loneliness and depression.

It's actually increasingly recognised by researchers:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifest…
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Thread. Vincent Van Gogh and Japan.

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Interestingly, Van Gogh viewed his new surroundings through the prism of a new country: Japan.
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If you ever visit Tokyo, you might come across this. So what is it?

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