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Vassa, the three-month monastic rains retreat, traditionally end on the full-moon day in October. Then starts kaṭhina, an ancient festival of generosity, community, and renewal that connects Buddhist laypeople and monastics through a tradition dating back to the Buddha’s lifetime. 🧵 🗃️ #Srilanka

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Why the ‘Trick-or-Treat Test’ still matters for better neighbourhoods. My past @opinion.bloomberg.com article. Every year, #Halloween trick-or-treating reveals a LOT about good and bad urban design and more walkable neighbourhoods all year long. Think about it as you look/walk around on Halloween.

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Nobody had realized this before at that point,only the Globe Illustrated Shakespeare was widely known. And again, using blurry DVD screenshots (this was years before the HD remastering of TNG), I tracked down almost every double page seen in the later episodes. And then came the surreal moment: 5/10

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In the spring of 2010, I finally wanted to wrap my head around the Shakespeare book in Picard's ready room and tracked down a copy of the Globe Illustrated Shakespeare that's seen in Picard's hands in "Hide and Q". It took me ages to find the correct edition but this book is how it all started. 2/10

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