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17 November 2025.
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Schwerin Castle,
located in Schwerin, Germany, is one of the most beautiful and historically significant castles in Europe. The castle sits on an island in Lake Schwerin, giving it a fairytale-like setting surrounded by water, which adds to its charm.
It has been the residence of dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg for centuries and is often referred to as the "Neuschwanstein of the North" because of its picturesque appearance.
The castle was originally constructed in the 10th century, though much of its current form reflects 19th-century renovations in the Romantic historicism style. Its golden towers, intricate facades, and lush gardens make it a striking sight, especially when viewed from across the lake. Today, Schwerin Castle houses the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament and serves as a museum open to the public, where visitors can explore its richly decorated rooms and art collections.
The surrounding lake and parkland make it a perfect destination for a scenic and cultural experience.
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Fulani woman in Dalaba town, French Guinea, 1936.
She has a magnificent traditional hairstyle that denotes her social status among her people. She belonged to the royalty of the Fouta Imamate.
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On this day in 1978, the Gloria Gaynor single “I Will Survive” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #87 (December 16)
“First I was afraid, I was petrified….”
The song with the memorable opening line (and dramatic piano intro) has an interesting back story:
The main songwriter Dino Fekaris worked for Motown Records for seven years as a staff writer.
But he didn’t write this song there.
You see, Dino was fired from Motown, and it was his dismissal from the music production giants that provided the inspiration for “I Will Survive”.
The story goes that depressed and jobless, Dino turned on the tv, and the theme song he had written for a movie happened to be playing.
He took it as a good omen, and jumped up and down on the bed saying, "I'm going to make it. I'm going to be a songwriter. I will survive!".
Fekaris teamed up with his collaborator Freddie Perren, another former member of the Motown production team, to write the song; however, the song remained unrecorded for two years as no suitable singer was available.
Later, in 1978, Perrin was asked to produce "Subsitute" for Gloria Gaynor, which he agreed on the understanding that he could also produce the B side.
When Gaynor was asked what kind of songs she liked, she said she liked "songs that are meaningful, have good lyrics, and touch people's hearts."
The producers then handed her the song lyrics of "I Will Survive" scribbled on a piece of brown paper.
Gaynor recognized the song as a hit immediately.
According to Robert "Boogie" Bowles who played guitar on the song, in the three-hour recording session, the session musicians spent most of their time recording the A side, "Substitute".
As a result, they only had 35 minutes to record the B side "I Will Survive".
They also did not even know the song title or the melody of the song, but they were fairly relaxed recording it in the belief that the B side would likely not be played.
Based only on the chord changes and a few notes, they improvised freely much of the backing track, and Bowles filled in the bare bone of the tune with jazzy blues licks.
Although Gaynor was convinced that "I Will Survive" would be a hit and tried to persuade the label to release it as the A side, the label refused to entertain the idea and it was released as the B-side to "Substitute".
Studio 54 DJ Richie Kaczor loved it though, and played it at the popular venue.
Other disc jockeys in discos and radio stations soon followed and played that side of the record instead.
The popularity of "I Will Survive" with the DJs then finally led to the label releasing the song as an A side.
It went to #1 in the US, the UK and Ireland, and was Top 5 in a host of other countries around the world, including Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands.
The song is also often used as a symbol of female empowerment.
Rolling Stone ranked it #492 in their List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.
Billboard placed it at #97 in their ranking of The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.
In 2016, the Library of Congress deemed Gaynor's original recording to be "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
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🕌Wray Castle, a Gothic Revival castle, is located on the shores of Lake Windermere in the Lake District, England.
Place : England.
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Behold, the bronze helmet of Canosa, unearthed from a princely tomb in Apulia, Italy. Dating back to the 4th century BC, it whispers tales of the Daunian civilization, an ancient Italic people.
Crafted with meticulous detail, the helmet features embossed figures – possibly a winged goddess or a griffin – and intricate floral patterns. Time has weathered its surface, yet these scars enhance its aura, narrating the passage of centuries. Its significance lies in shedding light on the artistic prowess and funerary practices of a vanished culture.
The helmet is an artifact frozen in time, a vessel carrying stories of bravery and artistry. The cold bronze evokes a sense of melancholy, a poignant reminder of the ephemeral nature of existence, where even the most majestic warriors fade into the annals of history, leaving behind only echoes of their glory.
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This historical photograph captures a large traditional outrigger sailing canoe, likely from the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea.
The specific design, featuring a high gunwale (plank extension) from the hull and a double-mast, is characteristic of a type of trading vessel known as a Kasali or a similar large outrigger.
A similar design is also seen in the Lakatoi, another large trading vessel used in Papua New Guinea.
Photo by W. A. Lucas, Royal Geographic Society, Burns Philp collection, ANU library, 1899.
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Filisur, Switzerland 🇨🇭 This isn't a toy train set; it’s the Landwasser Viaduct, the crown jewel of the UNESCO-listed Rhaetian Railway. 🚂
The engineers who built this in 1902 were either geniuses or terrifyingly bold, as they constructed those 65-meter stone pillars without using any scaffolding at all. 🏗️
The most dramatic part isn't the height, but the disappearance act: the track curves directly into the sheer vertical cliff face of the Landwasser Tunnel, meaning you go from open air to pitch black in seconds. 🏔️
If you want the best photo, sit in the rear carriage to watch the red engine get swallowed by the mountain. 📸
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On this day in 1979, the Fleetwood Mac single “Tusk” peaked on the Australian charts at #3 (December 17)
The song written by Lindsey Buckingham from the 1979 double LP of the same name, came from a rehearsal riff that Buckingham used for sound-checks.
Mick Fleetwood recalled that the band played the riff the same way every night with the intention of developing it further in the studio.
At the request of Fleetwood, the band recruited the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band to play on the single.
The idea came to Fleetwood while he was a on a vacation in Barfleur in France, when he was woken up by a local brass band playing outside.
He recalled:
“I saw the entire village dancing in the streets. They were following the band...I grabbed the remainder of my bottle of Beaujolais from the night before and went down to join in...That joyous, irresistible cacophony is what I heard when I listened to that loop of the riff.”
The song went to #3 in Australia, #4 in New Zealand, #5 in Canada, #6 in the UK and Austria, #7 in Germany, #8 in the US, and #10 in the Netherlands.
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Bashkir girl in national dress.
Richly decorated with silver coins.Bashkirs-Muslim people of Turkic origin living in the Russian Federation.
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Here's the 1959 Rometsch Lawrence VW Typ 1 Coupé.
The company began by building taxis using Opel or Ley Chassis.
Post WWII, Rometsch made a stretched, 4-door Volkswagen Beetle taxi, and also constructed wood framed, aluminum bodied, Volkswagen sports cabriolet cars called Beeskows, after the designer.
Because of its shape, the Beeskow was sometimes called a banana.
It looked like an ancestor to the Audi TT.
In 1957, Rometsch switched from the banana to the Lawrence design, which was characterized as being 'more American.'
Each vehicle took about 1000 man hours to complete, with an aluminum body formed over a frame of steel and wood.
It was a Volkswagen chassis, but typically, Okrasa or Porsche engines were installed.
The Lawrence was initially offered as a convertible, but by the late 1950s a coupé was also constructed.
This is a 1959 coupe, of which, only a handful were made. The two-tone interior is mostly original.
When the Berlin wall went up in August of 1962, Rometsch lost most of its workers who lived on the East side and closed.
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3rd Best Cookie in the World for 2026: Alfajores, Argentina & Uruguay 🇦🇷🇺🇾
Classic South American sandwich cookies, alfajores, have been ranked as the 3rd Best Cookie in the World 2025/26 on TasteAtlas.
They achieved an average rating of 4.22/5, based on verified user ratings counted only from users who have actually tried the dish. The ranking is powered by algorithms that filter out bots and nationalist voting brigades, ensuring pure democratic math: no jury, no magic.
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