The locations that inspired iconic paintings🧵 1. Van Gogh's Starry Night - Saint-Rémy, France

The Chinese economy is a sea, not a pond." "Storms can overturn a pond, but never a sea," President Xi Jinping said

Niger has rejected French and has adopted Hausa as its national language.

Mongolian girl has a laugh with her camel

Trees 'sleep' at night 😴🌲 In 2016 researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary pointed laser scanners at two birch trees, one in Austria & one in Finland. Between two hours after sunset and just before sunrise, the trees branches drooped by as much as 10cm

In 1947, computer scientist Grace Hopper and her team found a moth causing a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II computer. This incident led to the term "computer bug" to describe technical glitches.

Arp-Madore 2026-424 has its eyes on us. 👀 This titanic head-on collision between two galaxies bears an uncanny resemblance to a ghostly face. Released in Hubble's 30th year, this image shows "eyes" that are actually each the bright core of a galaxy: go.nasa.gov/42N2eJH

Finally! Thank you Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

World's largest cities.

Top 10 military spenders in 2024: 1.🇺🇸USA — $997 billion 2.🇨🇳China — ~$314 billion 3.🇷🇺Russia — ~$149 billion 4.🇩🇪Germany — $88.5 billion 5.🇮🇳India — $86.1 billion 6.🇬🇧United Kingdom — $81.8 billion 7.🇸🇦Saudi Arabia — ~$80.3 billion 8.🇺🇦Ukraine — $64.7 billion 9.🇫🇷France — $64.7

Always looking ahead with Miles 🤝🎺

Barry Mulligan I called it 5 weeks ago "an annialation". The liberals have only themselves to blame. Going from Morrison to Dutton was like putting square wheels on a car

The Joker in 1966

China 🇨🇳 tests trains speeding to 400 km per hour.

On this date in 1933 the German N*zis held their first book burning celebration. With 40,000 in attendance N*zi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels railed against literature that “promoted gay and transgender people” and then lit the match, to thunderous applause. The rest, as

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council has ruled Russia responsible for the downing of civilian flight MH17 in 2014.  kyivpost.com/post/52509

This is Hercules the oak One of the tallest oak trees in England, having to compete for light with other trees for 150 years

In 1918 the conservative parties introduced preferential voting to Australia to stop Labor from scoring undeserved wins in 3-cornered contests. Labor is currently 2.6% ahead in the overall primary vote & leading the primary vote in 86 of 150 seats. #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.

Turnout at 90.6%. Terrific result.