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Henry Moore Oval with Points 1968-70

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Chaukhandi Tombs

Located: Karachi, Pakistan

These tombs, with elaborate sandstone carvings, are located in Karachi Pakistan.They were mainly built during Mughal rule sometime in the 15th and 18th centuries

They are burried South to North (which is very unusual for both the area and time period).  The tombs at Chaukhandi are renowned for being one of the most haunted sites in the region, and visitors are particularly warned against entering the graveyard at night.

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Coal Dockers (1875) by Claude Monet

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Hummingbird and Passion flowers by Martin Johnson Heade

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These folks look suitably grim as they listen to the election returns at the temporary "wigwam" in the 7th Avenue Armory on November 6, 1928. Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic candidate for president, is seated in the second row, third from the left. He lost to Herbert Hoover by 17 percentage points. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the (successful) candidate to succeed Smith as New York governor, is in the first row, third from the left.

Photo: Associated Press

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Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

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Alice Shirley (British, b. 1984), Coral Triangle (Earth series), 2014. Gouache on watercolor paper, 90 x 90 cm.

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Chinese map of the United States of America from 1861

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J.C. Leyendecker by rocor on Flickr.

Cooper Underwear Company, 1915. Oil on canvas (1874-1951) Haggin Museum