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1960s pop cultural heritage 🤝 1960s architectural heritage 🍏 Apple Corps Ltd have announced The Beatles will take over the Grade II listed modernist St John’s Beacon tower in Liverpool (James A Roberts, 1965-69), as part of a new official visitor attraction opening in 2028.

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For a start, the photo was taken looking east rather than west, and then there's the dark band along the horizon where a sunset is usually brightest. So what's going on? Well, I'm not certain, but I think it's a phenomenon called the Belt of Venus. Cont./

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Nightfall on the Clyde in Glasgow on Sunday. At first glance, this appears to be a fairly normal sunset, but when you look closer, you realise it's not. Cont./ #glasgow #sunset #beltofvenus #weather #riversidemuseum

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It's created when the light from the setting sun is scattered by particles in the atmosphere above the eastern horizon and refected back towards the west. The dark band along the horizon is where the Earth itself is getting in the way and so is created by its shadow. #sunset #beltofvenus #weather

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