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I am an extremely over-qualified high school chemistry teacher. (Photos captured by myself unless mentioned otherwise.)

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I usually post threads in English but this is an exception- most people in my country can't visit Vienna (either they're poor or Austria won't let them in), and the internet is the only way for them to see this splendorous place. Yes I am a noble thoughtful person.😁

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Meanwhile- I made a sequoia-tall thread on the dead bird site about Natural History Museum of Vienna. I shared I guess about more than 200 photos and I haven't completed it yet!🤣🤣🤣

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Archaeologists identified a stone wall & earthwork extending over 2.7 km in the Dossone della Melia forest, Calabria, Italy. The wall, accompanied by a deep ditch, has been identified as part of the structures built by the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus
www.archaeological.org/wall-built-t...

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Latin graffiti at Pantokrator Monastery/Zeyrek Mosque Nicolaus {de} Otavianus. 1418 die 6 Ap(r)illis. Pono meum sign[um] ollem Nicolaus de Otavianus. 6 April 1418. I leave my mark at this time Original reading and translation by Dr. H. Sercan Sağlam

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I am dead🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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💔 Did people in Ancient Rome and Greece love the same way we do? Perhaps even more hopelessly - by Konstantine Panegyres (Melbourne) - The Conversation AU theconversation.com/did-people-i...

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And when it is not there... You can just long for it

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It feels like trying to hold a beam of light in your hand- you cannot. You just feel it when it is there. Simply.

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Today we celebrate a milestone in science history, the presentation on July 1 1858 of 3 major unpublished evolution papers by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. These are worth your time to read. 🧪🌏

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The only good thing about waiting is that you don't have to do anything about it- time flows anyway. Time flows without you having to do anything about it. The more I think the weirder my thoughts get.😖

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And meteorites (This one is really big though- 909 kilograms!)

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No, not common Many Turks settled in Germany in 1960s as guest-workers (which turned out to be permanent later). In summer they visit their relatives in Turkey, and that's the time of the year when you hear unusual dialogues on the street.😁

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In Austria everyone was talking to me in Turkish. Now I am riding on a bus in Ankara. Next to me sitting is a Turkish girl. Talking on the phone. In half Turkish half German, switching from one language to the other in between sentences.🙃🙃🙃

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And I waited as I could do nothing else And waiting actually is doing nothing

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I made 1600 kms to Wien, scheduled Ephesus Museum in my travel plan mostly to see these sculptures of personified four virtues, and, guess what. I omitted to look for them when in Ephesus Museum and probably passed by them without noticing. I sometimes hate myself...

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...and is growing darker deeper colder inside myself

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Niece in law and nephew in law did not give a damn to archaeology but they liked the spinners.😄

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Just keep in mind🦘🦘🦘

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Missing more and more every single moment as everyone around me talks in German...🥺

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A tiny ear bone shows a Neanderthal child 140,000+ years ago lived with #DownSyndrome for years, supported by their prehistoric kin. It's the oldest known case of the chromosomal disorder–and powerful evidence for care in the past. www.science.org/content/arti...

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The Great Barrier Reef has experienced five mass bleaching events in the last decade – the most recent in March this year. It was the most severe and widespread mass bleaching event ever recorded there.

At Lizard Island, 97% of coral is dead.

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theconversation.com/new-drone-im....

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I mostly agree with "Take only memories leave only footprints" but was more than a little tempted for taking two little leaves from the dreamy forests around Schloss Schönbrunn yesterday.🥹

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No, on Instagram @wassukanni, sharing mostly birds & butterflies

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Comfort me, followers. Tell me "Sapi, you're totally a normal human being. NHM Wien is abnormal." There's nothing wrong about taking 700 photos there in 5 hours, right?

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How many days it's been? I already missed.😢😢😢 ( No not thinking about my country)

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And... Has anyone noticed the figures at the famous dinosaurs hall of NHM Wien? They don't look much comfortable doing their job.🤣🤣🤣

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"I came from where you came" I said🥺🏺

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And... Has anyone noticed the figures at the famous dinosaurs hall of NHM Wien? They don't look much comfortable doing their job.🤣🤣🤣

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I am a very romantic woman, easily affected by sentimental things such as #urbangeology 🙃🤣

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Sorry, I had to do this.🤣

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Today at NHM Wien ticket control Me: -Good morning (showing the qr code) Alina (as it was written on her name plate): -Yukarı tut, tamam ("hold it up, OK" in Turkish) Me: -I can speak English!

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Have you ever thought you were born in the wrong country? I didn't.Till I went inside that building today.💔 My eyes are filling even when writing this. This place can be the sanctuary of the hypothetical religion which I'd gladly believe in- in which curiosity is the only way to worship. NHM, Wien.

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In Turkey there are three magpies per square meter. In Wien none. Instead everywhere there are blackbirds. I prefer blackbirds.😄

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I don't know whether you're still into the dead blue bird site but this is an account definitely worth following there🤣🐳🍼

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"We're both strangers here" I said

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"Excuse-me-do-you-sell-sacher-cakes." This was enough for her to decide that she could communicate with me better with her (very bad) Turkish.🧟🤣

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15 of 10 people in Wien are Turkish. Sometimes it's funny mostly it's annoying. Me: -Excuse me, do you sell Sacher cakes? (in English) She: -Hayır hayır (in Turkish) Me: -Türk müsünüz? (Are you Turkish?) She: -Hayır biraz anlıyor ("Just a little" -with a very bad accent-) Is my English that bad?😳

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Some genuine (ie. not imported🤣) Austrian archaeology in Wien Museum.

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The pavement of Kunsthistorisches Museum are full of rudists all over, why didn't anyone tell me🤣
#Urbangeology

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This is the 1st time I visited a museum filled by the early "subject hunter-gatherer" archaeologists & seeing stuff haphazardly put together (Archaic men &Bronze Age idols facing each other in Cyprus section was the most disturbing), the little info on the (only in German) labels felt a bit odd...

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It is is a fascinating place and I spent some good five hours there today. With bursting into tears and talking to items from time to time. But something is eating me- there is something odd about this place. What's the difference between a museum and a storage house?

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