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Useful Tips When Shopping Online For Plus Size Pieces ... A lot of the local department stores carry a couple of plus size pieces, but they are not usually new stock and therefore, not very stylish and up-to-date. Sometimes, they are not very flattering and have poor quality...

The Declining Interest In Space Exploration Leads To Loss Of Valuable Pieces Of History ... In 1972, NASA launched Apollo 17 for a lunar landing to gather information and samples from the Moon to bring back to Earth. Apollo 17 is a significant mission for many reasons and one being that is was the last mission to put man on the Moon...

Great Household Items You Can Find At Rummage Sales ... If you are looking to make the rooms in your home one of a kind, consider using a combination of second hand pieces to create inviting, unique spaces... You can add personal touches to even the most neutral and mundane pieces, and you will feel good doing things to second hand furniture you would not risk with newer pieces... You are not going to go buy a new living room set and spray paint it cherry red, but you might consider a design risk like this on a few pieces you pick up at a rummage sale...

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power. A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words, is supposed to have engendered that surplus of Faustian energy and psychic damage needed to build modern organic societies. But print seems a less treacherous form of leaching out the world, of turning it into a mental object, than photographic images, which now provide most of the knowledge people have about the look of the past and the reach of the present. What is written about a person or an event is frankly an interpretation, as are handmade visual statements, like paintings and drawings. Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

I was even more surprised at the power of the waves, exhibited on this shattered fragment, than I had been at the sight of the smaller fragments before. The largest timbers and iron braces were broken superfluously, and I saw that no material could withstand the power of the waves; that iron must go to pieces in such a case, and an iron vessel would be cracked up like an egg- shell on the rocks.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)