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Pregnant women warned of travel to Zika-hit countries

Ahead of the 2016 Olympics, Brazil has advised pregnant women to seek medical advice before traveling to the country. The US has issued travel warnings, while Jamaica says women should postpone plans to become pregnant.

20 Beautiful Portraits of Women During the Later 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.

The Pictorialist perspective was born in the late 1860s and held sway through the first decade of the 20th century. It approached the camera as a tool that, like the paintbrush and chisel, could be used to make an artistic statement. Thus photographs could have aesthetic value and be linked to the world of art expression.

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Constant Puyo, 1903

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Constant Puyo, Apparition, 1910

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Constant Puyo, 1896

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Constant Puyo, 1896

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Constant Puyo, 1896

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5 facts about race in America | Pew Research Center

Even before a series of police shootings of blacks last year, most Americans gave police departments around the country relatively low marks in treating races equally. In a survey conducted shortly after the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., about one-third or less of Americans thought police departments nationwide did a good or excellent job of holding officers accountable for misconduct, using the appropriate amount of force and treating racial and ethnic groups equally.

Source: 5 facts about race in America | Pew Research Center

ّIn Solitude

نادية حرحش

In solitude… there is a search for home.
Inside that path , the only companion is that in-depth stations of childhood.
A space as deep in its emptiness as that distance in time,
between that residing child inside you
and the adult seeking for understanding the question of being .
A search inside loneliness and being alone …
A search that comprises the distance
and the emptiness between a desert and a sky.
In solitude is the key to ones soul .
An answer in solitude to the question of life….

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