Birds and nature. Music. History, especially material culture.

Alpine Chough
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Andrew Tevis retweeted
あら、可愛いわね🕊️💕
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White-winged Snowfinch
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Alpine Chough 😘
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Andrew Tevis retweeted
ゴイサギの役に立たない器 色付け難しくて薄くなってしまったし割れまくっている デザインは気に入っているのでいつかリベンジしよう
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A rare white night heron. Note: This photo was not taken by me.
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pigeon pigeon
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Languages of transaction records Ptolemaic Egypt, 100-30 BCE Some mapped distributions lack sufficient evidence.
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Pied Imperial Pigeon #Bird
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Many people struggle to distinguish between the state, the nation, political parties, and the government because they often overlap in political life and are closely connected. The state is a relatively enduring political community and institutional system. The government consists of the institutions and officials that govern it at a given time. Political parties are organizations that seek or exercise political power, while a nation is generally a group of people with a shared history, culture, or identity. Governments can change and parties can lose power while the state continues to exist; a nation may also exist without a state of its own. In everyday language, “the state” or “the country” is often used to mean the government, so criticism of a government may be taken as opposition to the country itself, while opposition to a political party may be mistaken for rejection of the wider society or nation.
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