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9,000 soldiers etched into the sand to honor those who died on D-Day.
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In order to commemorate Peace Day on September 21, a team of British artists directed volunteers in etching 9,000 sandy silhouettes—the number of soldiers who fell on D-Day.
Kolor vs. Black and White: Forty Years of Elliott Erwitt’s Photographs
“Elliott Erwitt’s Kolor” is a thoughtful exploration of more than forty years of photography. There photographs from all over the world, shots of movie stars and politicians, staged fashion photographs and sidewalk action shots.
Kolor vs. Black and White: Forty Years of Elliott Erwitt’s Photographs
Empathy 101
“I like to understand how people see the world,” A CEO tells me. “It’s always different for each person.
On Self
“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.”
Native American proverb
The Eagle
Once a farmer found an abandoned eagle’s nest and in it was an egg still warm. He took the egg back to his farm and laid it in the nest of one of his hens. The egg hatched and the baby eagle grew up along with the other chickens. It pecked about the farmyard, scrabbling for grain. It spent its life within the yard and rarely looked up. When it was very old, one day it lifted up its head and saw above it a wonderful sight – an eagle soaring high above in the sky. Looking at it, the old creature sighed and said to itself, “If only I’d been born an eagle”.
According to Hallmark, today is Drink Beer Day! Let’s celebrate with a little beer history.
1. After he won the Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.
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2. The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.
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3. At the Wife Carrying World Championships, first prize is the wife’s weight in beer.
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4. A cloud near the constellation Aquila contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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5. Coined in the early 1900s, the word “alcoholiday” means leisure time spent drinking.
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Continue Reading: 25 Amazing Facts for Drink Beer Day
Elysian Waters 