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Portrait of poet Pablo Neruda projected on a building in Santiago, Chile It's World Poetry Day For World Poetry Day, we're seeing the stylized visage of poet Pablo Neruda projected on a building in his native Chile. World Poetry Day was established by UNESCO to acknowledge 'that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings'. Neruda, a Nobel laureate generally held up by Chileans as their national poet, made his early mark with famously racy love poetry. But his palette of questions and feelings evolved, expanding into surrealism, epic history, and radical politics. His death in 1973 after a bout with cancer was mourned publicly by Chileans - in defiance of newly installed dictator Augusto Pinochet, whom many Chileans link to Neruda's untimely passing. For World Poetry Day, UNESCO encourages embracing the tradition of reciting poetry for an audience - so keep your eyes peeled for poetry slams and other gatherings of langu...

Shakespeare's handwriting from the play 'Sir Thomas More,' British Library, London 'I'll call for pen and ink…' '…and write my mind.' It's Shakespeare Week in schools across the UK, so we're field-tripping to the British Library for a peek at the only surviving specimen of what's thought to be playwright William Shakespeare's handwriting (if you don't count legal documents). The scratchy cursive is inked within the script of Anthony Munday's 'Sir Thomas More,' a then-controversial play about a king-defying church leader. In 1603, the censorious royal Office of the Revels brought in Shakespeare among a team of writers to retool the script. But if Shakespeare's task was to tone things down, he may have had other ideas: his three-page addition includes an impassioned speech by the title character to a mob that's rioting over immigration policy. So, to recap: Shakespeare worked as a script doctor for picky...

“Celebrating Women Police” Haiti, Potoprus County Look at their smile! These women serving in UN-Stabilization Mission in Haiti. Today is International Women's Day.  It was enacted by the United Nations in 1975 to commemorate a demonstration for women's suffrage in New York on this day of 1904.  In Italy it is a day when women give each other mimosas ... Women has set their presence in every field of life. They bare every challenge with a smile on their faces. If you don't believe this, look at the woman in the labor room, bearing her child, suffering with pain but full of power and love.  Women's smiles are universal across different the world.

Women's suffragists who walked from New York City to Washington, DC, to join the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade on March 3, 1913 Casting a vote for women's history This historical photo commemorates a group of women who came to Washington, DC, to march alongside thousands in the Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913. Organizers scheduled the protest on the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration to draw maximum publicity to their cause—voting rights for women. But it would be another eight years before American women would finally be guaranteed the vote. That came on August 18, 1920, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, after a century of protest and activism. March is Women's History Month in the US, the UK, and Australia. In the US, this year's theme celebrates the original suffragists who fought for and won voting rights for women. It also honors women today who fight to ensure access t...

Panorama of the Alps under the snow, France Still a little winter! Winter has been very mild this year.  Maybe a little too much.  Snowball battles have become rare and hot chocolates were not as necessary as usual.  Strangely, we are a little disappointed not to have been able to take advantage of this atmosphere so mild in winter, as paradoxical as it is.  Little cocooning warm on Sunday morning when the flakes fall deafly on the ground.  No fogging while exhaling icy winter air. Winter warm  dishes rich in fat and comfort did not really taste the same either this winter.  A bit like drinking a Spritz while it is raining;  it's just not the same. So to compensate, we offer you this splendid view of the Alps under the snow which, we hope will make you feel this winter heat, as there is no  other.  And if you suddenly have a desire for melted Savoyard cheese, you have all our blessing! (© Beatrice Preve / Alamy Stock Phot)...

Pilgrims throwing wind horses into the air above Ganden Monastery for the New Year in Tibet, China Wind horses carry wishes for a new year For the first day of Losar, or the Tibetan New Year, we're paying a visit to these Buddhist pilgrims at the Ganden Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet. Losar is celebrated for 15 days, but most events occur in the first three days. They include wishing family members a prosperous year, praying at monasteries or temples, exchanging gifts, burning incense, chanting, wrestling, horse racing, and more. Celebrations for the new year end with Chotrul Duchen, or the Butter Lamp Festival. The pilgrims in this image are releasing prayer flags called 'wind horses' or lungtas, a ritual they perform during Losar and during the rest of the year as well. Upon releasing the prayer flags, the pilgrims ask the mountain deity to 'increase their fortune like the galloping of a horse and expand their prosperity like the boiling over of milk'. ( ©...

Statue of Shivaji in Solapur, Maharashtra. Shivaji was known for his administrative excellence and his organised civil rule having well-structured administration. During his reign in the latter sixteen hundreds, Shivaji had both alliances and disputes with Moghul rulers. Capturing many forts and building many others, he is also remembered for his impressive naval fleet, the first of its kind in the Maratha empire. The first use of the term ‘Chhatrapati’ (emperor) with reference to Shivaji, was in 1674 at Rajgad, the capital of his empire, where his fort still stands testimony to his success. ( © Dinodia Photo/Getty Image )

"Carnival giant puppet", Olinda, Brazil. 

"Statues of Louis Armstrong Park", New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Currently, New Orleans, Louisiana, is in the midst of New Orleans Mardi Gras.  A famous carnival in the United States alongside the Rio Carnival.  There will be a parade every day for about two weeks until the last day of the 25th… New Orleans is the home of jazz, home to Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo.  In the birthplace of jazz, there is a park named after him.  The Mardi Gras parade is accompanied by a jazz band, giving the sound of marching.

'Mapping Courage: Honoring W.E.B. Du Bois & Engine #11,' a mural by Willis Humphrey, Philadelphia, PA

Golden Hall in Stockholm City Hall for Nobel Prize Award ceremonies