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James Norton, presenter, with Gillian Anderson, winner of the Bazaar Television Icon Award 2016

News pics of Zach McGowan betweens scenes in season 4 of The 100.

My first love showed me everything I couldn’t live without. He also showed me everything I would never tolerate, ever again.

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James Norton as Andrey Bolkonskiy, War and peace, 2016 source

How To See Fairies. Charles Van Sandwyk. Vancouver: Fairy Press, [1992]. First edition, first printing. Original French flaps.

“So often when I sleep at night my dreams are overladen with vision of the fairy folk, led by a tiny maiden. They dance upon my furrowed brow till I have all but woken, and this is what they say to me, in words so softly spoken. ‘If you are up at the dead of night or just before the dawn, then you might see the fairy folk aplaying on the lawn.’”

This is so beautiful. 

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Endings are…tremendously painful as they are beautiful. Endings are the beginning of a new dawn, as they are the last scene of a story. They represent a turn, a change, something brand new - As we transform, and we move forward - as we’re all meant to do. Endings are taught to be sad - and they can be. But endings can also signify triumph over catastrophe.

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How Many Species Share Our Planet?

The answer: we have NO IDEA. Most taxonomists think that we have not even begun to discover all the species that live on Earth.  After nearly 250 years of organized study and exploration, and the finding of over 15,000 new living beings each year, taxonomists are still uncomfortable giving concrete estimates. And they are the experts! What makes counting species so hard?

Scientists have identified and named nearly 8.7 million species, but that number is constantly challenged by scientists presenting new methods and models for estimating how many more we have to find. Statistical models are the most inexact of sciences. And scientists are proposing new models for estimating the number of species every year, each with wildly different numbers.

But it’s not just statistics. One of the biggest reasons we do not know how many species share our planet is that 99 percent of all potential living space is under the ocean, and we humans have explored less than 10 percent of it.

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