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05/02/21 6:07 PM

#372171 RE: BOREALIS #372164

WOW the first one. Whoever thought all was drab and unimaginative in Putin's Moscow.


1. A clerk wearing a face mask walks in Moscow's International Business Center (Moskva City) in Moscow, Russia, on April 26, 2021. # Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty

??? impulse thought, fiddled photography?? Then, no wouldn't be, still, better check.


Evolution Tower

The Evolution Tower (Russian: ????? "????????", tr. Bashnya Evolyutsiya) is a skyscraper located on plots 2 and 3 of the MIBC in Moscow, Russia. The 55-story office building has a height of 246 metres (807 ft) and a total area of 169,000 square metres (1,820,000 sq ft). Noted in Moscow for its futuristic DNA-like shape, the building was designed by British architect Tony Kettle in collaboration with University of Edinburgh's Professor of Art Karen Forbes. Construction of the tower began in 2011 and was completed in late 2014. In 2016, Transneft bought the Evolution Tower for US$1 billion to establish its headquarters.[3][4][5] The skyscraper is the twelfth-tallest building in Russia, and the 20th-tallest building in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_Tower

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05/02/21 6:53 PM

#372178 RE: BOREALIS #372164

To ten. April 22, we should have mentioned then.

"Photos of the Week:
Photos of the Week: Desert Highway, Launch Symphony, Mermaid Show
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10. Volunteers take part in a beach clean-up event, organized to mark Earth Day, in Keelung, Taiwan, on April 24, 2021. # Ann Wang / Reuters

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network)[1] including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.[1][2]

In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970. He hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event "Earth Day". Denis and his staff grew the event beyond the original idea for a teach-in to include the entire United States. More than 20 million people poured out on the streets, and the first Earth Day remains the largest single day protest in human history. Key non-environmentally focused partners played major roles. Under the leadership of labor leader Walter Reuther, for example, the United Auto Workers (UAW) was the most instrumental outside financial and operational supporter of the first Earth Day.[3][4][5] According to Hayes, "Without the UAW, the first Earth Day would have likely flopped!"[6] Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in recognition of his work.[7]

The first Earth Day was focused on the United States. In 1990, Denis Hayes, the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international and organized events in 141 nations.[8][9][10]

On Earth Day 2016, the landmark Paris Agreement was signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and 120 other countries. This signing satisfied a key requirement for the entry into force of the historic draft climate protection treaty adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

President Trump and his most ardent admirers, of course, saw/see the Paris Agreement as having little more than nuisance value.

One displaced one



9. An office chair stands among small roads and vacant lots on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, on April 28, 2021. # Michael Probst / AP

As so many human beings have found themselves through no fault of their own. Displaced by the ravage of misguided notion. Then war.