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May 23

spacewatching: NASA Chief, Astronaut Office, Johnson Space Center Peggy Whitson, center, STS-135 Astronauts, Rex Walheim, left, and Commander Chris Ferguson are seen as the entire STS-135 crew plays a traditional card game at the NASA Kennedy Space Center Operations and Checkout Building prior to them leaving for the launch pad, on Friday, July 8, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The point of the game is that the commander must use up all his or her bad luck before launch, so the crew can only leave for the pad after the commander loses. The launch of Atlantis, STS-135, is the final flight of the shuttle program, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station.

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NASA Chief, Astronaut Office, Johnson Space Center Peggy Whitson, center, STS-135 Astronauts, Rex Walheim, left, and Commander Chris Ferguson are seen as the entire STS-135 crew plays a traditional card game at the NASA Kennedy Space Center Operations and Checkout Building prior to them leaving for the launch pad, on Friday, July 8, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The point of the game is that the commander must use up all his or her bad luck before launch, so the crew can only leave for the pad after the commander loses.

The launch of Atlantis, STS-135, is the final flight of the shuttle program, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station.

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May 22

thisisyourblindspot: Mother Motherland statue, part of the World War II memorial in Kiev, Ukraine. The memorial commemorates the German invasion of the Soviet Union starting in Ukraine in 1940, and the civilians who helped and gave their lives to defend Ukraine. The statue, built in 1981, is 102 metres tall, making it sixth tallest in the world (the Statue of Liberty is only 46 metres tall).  It is made of stainless steel, meaning it would have cost approximately a bajillion dollars to build. The museum underneath it is intense.  There are war medals, flags that the Soviet troops buried in the ground before being caught by the enemy, bits of civilians’ clothing (including childrens’) hanging from barbed wire.  There are uniforms of those who fought in the war, and rusted weapons that have been recovered.  The last hallway consists of hundreds of photographs of people who died in the war.  The entrance to the museum displays only a toppled Nazi eagle statue, with a statue of a Soviet soldier standing triumphant behind it.  Only a small portion was written in English; I wish I could have read more in detail.

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Mother Motherland statue, part of the World War II memorial in Kiev, Ukraine.

The memorial commemorates the German invasion of the Soviet Union starting in Ukraine in 1940, and the civilians who helped and gave their lives to defend Ukraine.

The statue, built in 1981, is 102 metres tall, making it sixth tallest in the world (the Statue of Liberty is only 46 metres tall).  It is made of stainless steel, meaning it would have cost approximately a bajillion dollars to build.

The museum underneath it is intense.  There are war medals, flags that the Soviet troops buried in the ground before being caught by the enemy, bits of civilians’ clothing (including childrens’) hanging from barbed wire.  There are uniforms of those who fought in the war, and rusted weapons that have been recovered.  The last hallway consists of hundreds of photographs of people who died in the war.  The entrance to the museum displays only a toppled Nazi eagle statue, with a statue of a Soviet soldier standing triumphant behind it.  Only a small portion was written in English; I wish I could have read more in detail.

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Bitch is askin’ to get capped.

Bitch is askin’ to get capped.

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May 21

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