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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/04/poem-of-the-week-sea-fever-by-john-masefield

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86 years ago today. Early on 14 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, anchored in Scapa Flow, Orkney, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of 834 lives. The tragedy is commemorated by the Royal Oak Memorial Garden, overlooking Scapa Bay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kirkwall/royaloakmemorial/index.html

#Scotland #Orkney

Royal Oak Memorial Garden. The image shows a large ship’s crest in the foreground set on a sloping plinth made of stone blocks set on sloping ground. The name Royal Oak is at the top of the crest, below a royal crown. In the background is a three-storey building with balconies and lots of windows. The scene is in sunlight.

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"Bald durch das Tal, bald über Hügel,
verfolgt die Straße ihren Lauf,
und meinst Du hier, du hättest Flügel,
hält dich schon dort die Steigung auf."

August Friedrich Eberspächer (1907-1983)

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Temporary sign reads: GIVE CYCLISTS SPACE blocking cyclist lane

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It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.

It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.

7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.

This is a photo of the chart on which Burnell first recognised evidence of a pulsar.

It is a yellowed scroll of paper, with small squares and numbers to find interferences & record them correctly. There are red squiggly lines indicating the radio signal. In black ink, Burnell shows the exact points at which the signal quivered differently than normal - these are hard to see.

The map is display at the University of Cambridge Library.

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Everyone loves my chonky bat humour! And here is the Spoken Cartoon version right here on my new youtubular channel website thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxuVjWW5khE

Bei #GiannaNannini in der Arena in #Verona.

Auf dem Weg zu #GiannaNannini nach #Verona .

Verkürzte #herbsttour2025 wegen "technischem Defekt"

#bikefever #bikelikeyoumeanit #biketoot

Auf dem Weg zu #GiannaNannini nach #Verona .

This is the end.
Beautful friend.
This is the end.
My only friend, the end.

#bikefever #bikelikeyoumeanit #biketoot #herbsttour2025

Auf dem Weg zu #GiannaNannini nach #Verona .

#bikefever #bikelikeyoumeanit #biketoot #herbsttour2025

Auf dem Weg zu #GiannaNannini nach #Verona .

#bikefever #bikelikeyoumeanit #biketoot #herbsttour2025

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🚲💚 Du liebst Rad-Abenteuer?
Bei uns im Hochtaunus gibt es viele schöne Radwege, doch dazwischen wird es oft gefährlich und du sollst schieben. Das nervt! Wir brauchen ein Rad‑Netz in einem Stück – sicher für alle Kinder auf dem Rad!

Am 21. 9. veranstaltet der ADFC Hochtaunus eine große Fahrraddemo.
Mach mit, schnapp dir dein Rad 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🌍
Du kannst erleben, wie sich ein sicheres, durchgängiges Radnetz anfühlt ohne dass Du von Hindernissen gestoppt wirst.
#TaunusRadDemo #RadfahrenVerbindet

Ein Mann hält ein Banner mit der Aufschrift "Hier fehlt ein Radweg!" Hessen.adfc.de neben dem Verkehrsschild, das die Abfahrten Kronberg und Königstein ankündigt.

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Symbol-Bild fürdie ganze Tour.
Rund um #koeln ist es auch nicht besser.

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Cycling boosts health, the planet, and the economy! 🚲

✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10M bikes made in the EU yearly
✔️ 1.35M cycling-related jobs

With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting cycling across the EU, including through:

🦺 Safe cycling networks in cities
🚌 Better links with public transport
🔋 Deployment of charging points for e-bikes
🚴 Bike highways connecting cities with rural areas

Find out more: https://europa.eu/!p97hdK

#Sommerradtour2025 durch #Italien, #Slovenien und #Kroatien.

18 Tage; 823 km; 9570 Hhm

Über 400 km weniger als letztes Jahr, aber genauso viele Höhenmeter. Nächstes Jahr fahren wir wieder in die Berge, das ist nicht so anstrengend wie am Meer!

#bikefever #bikelikeyoumeanit #biketoot #summertour2025