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~ Hannah Arendt ~

Hoping for a better world for us all...🍀 Vera ☮️

Philosophy, Literature, Science, Politics, Art, Movies, Music, History.....WW11
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"You are very gray today, Barley. My father was sent to prison by gray men. He was murdered by men who wore gray uniforms. Gray men ruined my beautiful profession and take care or they will ruin you too."

Dante,
(Klaus Maria Brandauer)

Screenplay by
Tom Stoppard,
(1937~2025)
Theatrical release poster for 'The Russia House' (1990), showing Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery), Katya Orlova (Michelle Pfeiffer). The Russia House is a 1990 American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney and Klaus Maria Brandauer. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay based on John le Carré's 1989 novel of the same name. It was the first US motion picture to be shot substantially on location in the Soviet Union.[2] (Wikipedia)
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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"She came at me in sections."
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Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire)
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'The Band Wagon'
(1953), Gabrielle Gerard (Cyd Charisse) and Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire)

#filmsky
A photo from the 'The Band Wagon' (1953), Gabrielle Gerard (Cyd Charisse) and Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire) dancing together. Cyd wearing a spectacular red dress has her long legs outstretched, while Fred in a contrasting white suit and hat is holding her. There are other dances in the Bar watching on.
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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'Outrageous' (2025), 6 part T.V. series about the six Mitford sisters; highly recommended. 🎬
Poster for: 'Outrageous' (2025) Based on the story of the Mitford sisters, six sisters who refused to play by the rules and whose often-scandalous lives made headlines around the world. Set in the 1930s, it is a tale of betrayal, scandal, heartache and even imprisonment. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23856916/plotsummary?item=po7118405
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea."

~ Sylvia A. Earle ~
American marine biologist and oceanographer. 🌊💙
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D., photographed in the Bahamas in the 1970s, with "Sandy," a Dolphin she and her children repeatedly visited.(Glamour Newsletter) 🌊💙
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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'A Grief Observed' (1961) by C.S. Lewis, is a sensitive insight into his personal experience, as he comes to terms with his own grief, after the death of his wife
Joy Davidman. 📚💙
The book cover for 'A Grief Observed' by C.S. Lewis (1961), in three colours, orange, white and blue. At the top are branches of a tree losing its leaves. 📚
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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"Let's go up to my apartment. It's only a few ruins away from here."

Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich)
'A Foreign Affair' (1948), Directed by Billy Wilder. 🎬
A black and white photo of Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), as she walks back to her Apartment in bombed out Berlin after WW11. A Foreign Affair is a 1948 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich and John Lund. The screenplay by Charles Brackett, Wilder and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted by Robert Harari. (Wikipedia)
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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“If we can create
portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.”

August Sander
German Photographer, (1876–1964)
A black and white photo of people as they walk across the snow covered Deutz Bridge, the town of Cologne can be seen across the Rhine through its girders. August Sander (German, 1876-1964) Deutz Bridge, Rhine in winter (1937) Gelatin silver print Lothar Schirmer Collection, Munich © The Photographic Collection, SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archive, Cologne, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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#NoirvemberChallenge

'The Night of the Hunter' (1955). Noir thriller. Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters & Lillian Gish. directed and co-written by Charles Laughton.

Scary & Powerful Poster...🎬

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#Filmnoir
The black and white Movie Poster for 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955), showing a sinister looking Robert Mitchum (bottom half), and two children in a row boat on the river (top half), there are buildings in the background.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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From the book by:
James Wilson, The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America. (1998).
Book cover for The Earth Shall Weep' (1998) by James Wilson showing a drawing of an eagle with a red body. "The European "discovery" and conquest of America was one of the most cataclysmic events in history, leading to the wholesale destruction of millions of people and hundreds of flourishing societies. As far as history books are concerned, Native Americans have been secondary to an essentially Euro-American story. ... (Google Books)
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Mr. Jones (2019 film)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland.

It is based on the true story of Welsh Journalist Gareth Jones played by James Norton, who uncovers the truth of the devastating 'Holodomor' (Famine), which occurred between (1932~1933); millions of people died in the Ukrainian SSR. 🕯️
Mr. Jones (2019 film) Directed by Agnieszka Holland. A still from Mr Jones (2019), he is walking along side a train and boxcars, it is snowing, there are people walking behind him, and a collapsed man is laying on the ground behind him. He is carrying a bag and wearing glasses. There is a red flag visible on a building behind him. Upon discovering evidence for the genocidal famine induced by Stalin's political forces in Ukraine, a fearless Welsh journalist endeavours to report the man-made catastrophe. Mr. Jones is about journalist Gareth Jones, played by James Norton, who seeks to expose a tragedy in Ukraine, the USSR is determined to hide from the outside world. (Wikipedia)
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Our beautiful girl goes willingly, around 8:30 p.m. Dogs are certainly different. 🤗
A gold and white Labrador Retriever sound asleep in their bed.
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Me as your bsky therapist...
Dr. Sigmund Freud sitting and taking notes, while a Bunny laying on a couch discusses their many problems with him. Dr. Sigmund Freud and the Bunny on the Couch, Created by Australian Cartoonist Phil Somerville.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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“The ragpicker fascinated his epoch. the eyes of the first investigators of pauperism were fixed on him with the mute question as to where the limit of human misery lay."

In his book ‘Des classes dangereuses de la population’… FROM WALTER BENJAMIN’S ‘THE PARIS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE IN BAUDELAIRE’
The Ragpickers~Paris (1920), two men, one pushing a cart full of rags, and the other pulling the cart. Contributor: Imago Europe Collection.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Suffering occurs because we must lose what we have and are attached to. Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering. Carlo Rovelli, Theoretical Physicist (Quantum Gravity). 'The order of time', 'L'ordine del tempo' (2017). Book cover for: 'The Order of Time' (2017) is a book by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, a specialist in quantum gravity research, about time in physics. An audiobook, four hours and nineteen minutes long, was read by Benedict Cumberbatch. (Wikipedia)
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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"Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!"

Bertolt Brecht,
(1898~1956)
'The Exception and the Rule' (Die Ausnahme und die Regel) circa 1929/30's Prologue.
A black and white photo of Bertolt Brecht at his type writer, he has a cigar in his mouth. Photo by: Grete Stern (1904~1999) German-Argentine photographer.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Kraków Polska, Wojtek Kaczówka Photography.
Misty autumn morning on Florianska Street. 💙
Floriańska Street (Polish: ulica Floriańska, Latin: platea Sancti Floriani) is one of the main streets in Kraków Old Town and one of the most famous promenades in the city.[2] The street forms part of the regular grid plan of Kraków Old Town, the merchants' town that extends the medieval heart of the city, which was drawn up in 1257 after the destruction of the city during the first Mongol invasion of Poland of 1241.[3] (Source: Wikipedia)
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The Third Man (1949)

#NoirvemberChallenge

"We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us."
Holly Martins, (Joseph Cotton)

"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we?"
Harry Lime,
(Orson Welles)

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A black and white photo of a man wearing a coat with his arms outstretched at the entrance to a tunnel. An atmospheric black and white still from The Third Man (1949), of a man wearing a hat and coat, standing on a cobblstone road near a doorway, during a misty night in the city. The Third Man is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt, Orson Welles as Harry Lime and Trevor Howard as Major Calloway. Set in post-World War II Allied-occupied Vienna, the film centres on American writer Holly Martins, who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime, only to learn that he has died. Martins stays in Vienna to investigate Lime's death, becoming infatuated with Lime's girlfriend Anna Schmidt. (Wikipedia)
November 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Thérèse Bonney (born 1894?, Syracuse, New York, U.S.— died January 15, 1978, Paris, France) was an American photographer and writer remembered chiefly for her pictures portraying the ravages of World War II in Europe.
(Source: Britannica)
Refugee girls in Argelès-sur-Mer, France, 1941 (Thérèse Bonney, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.) Therese Bonney, Europe's Children, New York: Plantin Press, 1943, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (19) //www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/images/wcf019.jpg Therese Bonney wearing medal], February 1942 New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (14) LC-USZ62-113325 //www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/images/wcf014.jpg Therese Bonney, [Timidly---they climb the walls to would-be homes in gutted houses] c. 1940, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (17) Reproduced courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley //www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/images/wcf017.jpg Title Europe's Children 1939 to 1943 Author Bonney, Therese Edition Original, self-published edition Date 1943.
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Drop something BLACK & WHITE...🎬
The Train (1964) Directed by John Frankenheimer. A black and white still from the film The Train (1964), with Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) looking ahead into the distance, wearing a suit with a cigarette in his mouth, standing next to a clock with the word 'VAIRES' on top. The Train is a 1964 action war film directed by John Frankenheimer[1] and starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau. The picture's screenplay—written by Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, and Walter Bernstein—is loosely based on the non-fiction book Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, who documented the works of art placed in storage that had been looted by Nazi Germany from museums and private art collections. Arthur Penn was The Train's original director but was replaced by Frankenheimer three days after filming had begun. In 1944, a German colonel loads France's greatest paintings on a train to transport them to Germany. However, the French resistance is determined to prevent them from stealing their national treasure. (Wikipedia.)
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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I want to sleep for half a second,
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I am still alive,
that I have a golden manger inside my lips,
that I am the little friend of the west wind,
that I am the elephantine shadow of my own tears

Federico García Lorca (1898~1936)
A black and white photo of Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), he has soulful eyes, and is wearing a suit, he has dark curly hair and his left hand is resting on his cheek. Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Federico García Lorca (1898~1936), Gacela de la muerte oscura, (Gacela of the Dark Death). The poem was written between 1931 and 1934. A poem in the Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads) collection. It was published posthumously in 1940 in the collection Diván del Tamarit.
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Post someone who looks great in a hat...🎬
A photo of a smiling Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly from; Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), wearing a big hat, and adjusting her earring. 🎬💙
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Favourite Robert Mitchum film noir...

Out of the Past (1947)

"I don't want to die."

Kathie Moffat
(Jane Greer).

"Neither do I, baby, but if I have to, I'm going to die last."

Jeff Bailey
(Robert Mitchum)

#filmnoir
A black and white still from 'Out of the Past' (1947), showing Kathy (Jane Greer) and Jeff (Robert Mitchum) sitting in a car together. Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Geoffrey Homes (Daniel Mainwaring) from his 1946 novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes),[1] with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and James M. Cain.[2] (Wikipedia)
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana (1863~1952), Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies (1922).
Approximately 15 to 22 million people died in World War I, with estimates suggesting around 8.5 to 10 million military deaths and 6 to 13 million civilian deaths. The total number of casualties, including both military and civilian deaths and wounded, was around 40 million. (Wikipedia) World War II caused an estimated 50 to 85 million deaths, making it the deadliest conflict in history. While precise numbers vary due to the scale of the war and unrecorded deaths, estimates suggest approximately 21–25 million military and 50–55 million civilian fatalities. The Soviet Union and China suffered the highest civilian casualties, and the Holocaust alone resulted in the deaths of about 6 million Jews. (Wikipedia)
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"I am a citizen of the world."

~ Sylvia Beach ~
(1887~1962)

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Book cover for 'Shakespeare and Company' (1959) by Sylvia Beach, showing Sylvia opening the book shop while a man leans on a cane looking on from the doorway, and another man walks past her. The original Shakespeare and Company was opened in rue Dupuytren in Paris 1919. Her shop remained a literary mecca until it closed in 1941 during the German occupation of Paris. In 1943 Beach was interned by the Germans for several months. Her memoir, Shakespeare and Company, was published in 1959.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Favourite Richard Widmark
#NoirFilm

Pickup on South Street (1953) 🎬
Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy and Thelma Ritter as Moe Williams, sitting at a Diner together, with white mugs of coffee in front of them, talking to each other and looking pensive. Both are wearing hats. "Pickup on South Street" a 1953, Cold War spy-themed film noir, written and directed by Samuel Fuller. It stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM