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Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org posted a photo:

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Drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt

Misunderstandings

While it isn’t a good thing to constantly relive the past, I find that remembering and retelling the story helps me view situations with different lenses, new perspectives, and under different lighting. While sometimes that colors a memory badly, occasionally there are times when we must stand corrected, and acknowledge we were wrong…
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Stunning Color Vintage Photos of 1920s-30s Britain at Work and Play

These color photographs capture an innocent age a century ago of everyday life in Britain.

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Two young adults sit in the grass by a cliff near water and the village of Rottingdean in East Sussex in 1931

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A group of children sit, playing in the sand in 1931 at Dymchurch beach in Kent, which lies south-west of Folkestone

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A girl puts an envelope in a postbox in Oxford in 1929

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A girl sits in front of the rhododendrons in 1929 at Kew Gardens in south-west London, which was founded in 1840

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Two Chelsea Pensioners in signature scarlet coats in 1929

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2015 Year in Pictures: Part II

Photographs from July – December on a range of topics from arouund the world. ( see Part I )

By Lloyd Young
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Pensioners try to get a number to enter inside a bank in Athens, on July 1. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks.

(Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated Press)

(3/3) “I had one student who came to my school as an ‘emergency…

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(3/3) “I had one student who came to my school as an ‘emergency transfer.’ He was fourteen when he came into my class. He’d kick, bite, scream. He’d even pee his pants just to take them off and throw them at you. I taught him for several years. Recently he graduated, and to celebrate I took him to see The Minions. He stood in line to get his popcorn. He sat still through the entire movie. He was able to ‘be there.’ And that’s what gives me the most satisfaction. Getting my students to the point where they can be in this world.”