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  1. What the heck is this? Google “thinks” it might be a Montgomery Ward badge, but I don’t know if that’s based on people who guessed or knew what the MW stood for. It’s metal set in wood with two holes on the back with metal nubs inside. The back has a felt-like coating, so maybe a paperweight but that doesn’t explain the holes. Ideas?

    #mystery #vintage #antiques #mw

  2. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Hualien earthquake ✧

    The Hualien earthquake occurred on 3 April 2024. It was a Mw 7.4 earthquake in Hualien County, Taiwan. At least 19 people were killed and over 1,100 were injured. It was the strongest earthquake to strike Taiwan since the 1999 Jiji earthquake. This photograph shows the partially-collapsed Uranus Building.

    #hualien #mw #hualiencounty #hualienearthquakeoccurred #april #wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Hua

  3. I can never decide which one to play, so I play both of them one after the other. #cod #mw 1 2

  4. В первую среду каждого месяца в ГЭС-2 бесплатный вход. (То есть сегодня). Я не иду. #exhibitions #museums #contemporaryart #gatherings #GES2 #MW

  5. (Я выбрал не самую информативную фотографию, чтобы вспомнить про эту работу.)

    Три дня назад Андрей Монастырский опубликовал видео, как он идёт к Проезжей улице (улице Ивана Лобачика) и в финале показывает места, где раньше располагались бани, где он снимал свои «Земляные работы», и где он гулял с Машей Сумниной, фотографировал её: youtube.com/watch?v=WrnwH0Ib5iEinv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WrnwH0I #MishMash #MashaSumnina #AndreyMonastyrsky #recollections #MW

  6. In Spain, at least five #MW stations of Cadena Cope are playing a loop that directs listeners to their FM outlets if they want to continue listening to their programming:

    711 kHz COPE Murcia EAK12
    937 kHz COPE Ferrol EAK43
    1053 kHz COPE Zaragoza EAK6
    1143 kHz COPE Ourense EAK59
    1215 kHz COPE León EAK25
    1296 kHz COPE Valencia EAK5

    This follows the complete MW shutdown of Radio Nacional de España and Radio 5.

    #mw
  7. #VW nimmt ersten #Großspeicher in Betrieb & startet #Energiehandel

    Nach Abschluss der mehrmonatigen Bauphase erweitert #Volkswagen sein #Geschäftsmodell um stationäre #Energieinfrastruktur: In Salzgitter hat die Energietochter #Elli den ersten #Großspeicher an das #Stromnetz angeschlossen. Er verfügt über eine Leistung von rund 20 Megawatt ( #MW ) und eine #Speicherkapazität von 40 Megawattstunden ( #MWh )...

    ecomento.de/2026/03/09/volkswa

  8. пока нет, без названия («Сняла пленку на агат потому что телефон совсем надоел»), ноябрь 2023 года ★ Russia ★ xcancel.com/pokanett/ #pokanet #pokanett #поканет #contemporaryphotography #blackandwhitephotography #darkculture #reflections #depressive #doors #agat18 #MW #2020s

    Мрачная аналоговая фотография от московской художницы, с которой я не знаком, но нахожусь в неестественной переписке.

  9. i/ii • В новостях пишут про пожар в одном из 8-этажных домов на Пресненском валу. Номер дома никто не пишет, но пожар сфотографирован с разных сторон, и поэтому понятно, что горел первый подъезд дома № 5. Это такие игры с прайвеси — не говорить номер дома? Номер дома скрыт от автоматизированного сбора информации о пожарах?.. kommersant.ru/doc/8420829 🧷 #fires #censorship #incidentdatabases #privacy #вопрос #Presnya #MW

  10. tradizionale tecnologia radiofonica, che può prescindere dalla connessione alle reti.

    BTW lo spettro radiofonico in OM, lasciato libero dallo stop delle trasmissioni RAI, in Italia ha permesso la nascita di alcune radio private che trasmettono in modulazione d'ampiezza, piuttosto che in FM. Una che ascolto talvolta la notte opera sui 1188 kHz e credo si tratti di Radio Studio X, dalla prov. di Pistoia.

    #dxing #shortwave #sw #shortwaveradio #mw #mediumwave #lw #longwave

  11. 1/2 • До сего года меня бесила «медиация», когда медиатор:ка сбивает группу из 15 человек, в план двухчасовой встречи напихивает много всего, и потом в торопях это всё осуществляет. И, конечно, делает вид, что такая гурьба может комфортно перемещаться по коридорам и набиваться в малюсенькую мастерскую (самые микроскопические мастерские — у «Гаража»). #artmediation #museums #GarageMuseum #artstudios #artclusters #gatherings #MW

  12. Some #BroadcastAM (#AM #MW) #radio stations let you buy time slots, just like some #shortwave stations do.

    If you have some budget, you could be a "Leftist voice" in a mostly "Right-wing space"

    1490wwpr.com/buy-airtime-host-

  13. Programas Musicales en la Onda Larga y Media

    Rafael Martinez nos hace llegar su recopilación personal de programas musicales en Onda Larga y Onda Media.

    elradioescucha.net/2026/01/21/

  14. 1/9 • чуть-чуть граффити (цепочка не будет длинной) #graffiti #streetart #characters #cats #unknownartists #MW #2020s

  15. Что за красные конструкции появились на Трубной станции подземки? Если верить публикациям в единороссовской прессе, они нужны только для того, чтобы подвешивать праздничный декор к 1 января или 8 марта (активистский феминистский день отмечался надувными цветами). #moscowunderground #trash #red #вопрос #MW

  16. 📕 Word of the Day: imbroglio

    imbroglio • \im-BROHL-yoh\ • noun

    Imbroglio is a formal word that refers to a complex dispute or argument.

    // Much of the sisters’ text thread involves the the latest imbroglios on their favorite reality show—who’s mad at who for what, and why.

    📝 Examples:
    “A tangled web of interpersonal feuds, played out in letters to the local newspaper, in social media posts and via legal filings in county court, has left the town with no clear path out of a situation that’s not covered by state law. The imbroglio has even reached the state Capitol ...” — Seth Klamann and Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026

    📜 Did you know?
    Ever noticed how an imbroglio embroils people in controversy? There’s a reason for that—an etymological one, anyway. Both the noun imbroglio (referring to, among other things, a scandal or bitter argument) and verb embroil (“to involve in conflicts or difficulties”) come from the Middle French word embrouiller, a combination of the prefix en- and brouiller, meaning “to jumble,” though they took slightly different paths. Embroil’s was direct, passing from Middle French through French and into English around the turn of the 16th century. Italians altered embrouiller to form imbrogliare, meaning “to entangle,” which spawned the noun imbroglio that English speakers embraced in the mid-18th century. English imbroglio first referred to a confused mass, and later expanded to cover confusing social situations such as complicated disputes, misunderstandings, and scandals.

    #English #Vocabulary #wordoftheday #MW #WOTD

  17. 📕 Word of the Day: rectify

    rectify • \REK-tuh-fye\ • verb

    Rectify is a formal word meaning “to correct (something that is wrong).”

    // We were given the wrong room key, but the hotel management quickly rectified the situation.

    📝 Examples:
    “NYC contributes roughly 54.5% of state revenue but receives only 40.5% back. Our budget proposals work to rectify this unsustainable imbalance and restore the funding our city deserves.” — Cordell Cleare, The New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026

    📜 Did you know?
    When you rectify something, you correct an error or make things right, which is fitting because rectify and correct both ultimately trace back to the Latin word regere, meaning “to lead straight,” “to direct,” or “to rule.” Rectify has had its “to set right” meaning since the early 16th century, but the word has over the years accrued various other meanings as well, including the specialized uses “to purify especially by repeated or fractional distillation” (as in “rectified alcohol”), “to make (an alternating current) unidirectional,” and several medical applications having to do with healing of one kind or another. Regere plays a part in the histories of several familiar English words, in addition to those mentioned above; the many relatives of rectify include direct, resurrection, and regimen.

    #English #Vocabulary #wordoftheday #MW #WOTD

  18. 📕 Word of the Day: catercorner

    catercorner • \KAT-ee-kor-ner\ • adverb or adjective

    Catercorner is used to describe two things that are located across from each other on opposite corners. It is a less common variant of kitty-corner.

    // The store is catercorner from the park, making it the perfect location to grab snacks for our picnic.

    📝 Examples:
    “Positioned on balconies catercorner from each other, Tom Brady completed a pass across Bourbon Street to Rob Gronkowski, proving they’ve still got it. Gronk promptly spiked the football on the fan-filled street below.” — Rebecca Cohen and Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2025

    📜 Did you know?
    Catercorner gets its first element from the Middle French noun quatre, meaning “four,” which English speakers modified to cater and applied to the four-dotted side of a die—a side important in several winning combinations in dice games. Perhaps because the four spots on a die can suggest an X, cater eventually came to be used dialectically as a verb meaning “to place, move, or cut across diagonally”; cater was later combined with corner to form catercorner to describe things positioned diagonally from each other. (In one early usage from an 1825 magazine article, the author marvels at an “ancient Roman fresco painting, in which a luxurious table is represented as groaning under (among other choice dishes …) four peacocks, with their tails set, cater-corner!”) Eventually the variants kitty-corner and catty-corner, which are now the more common forms, developed. Despite all appearances, these terms bear no etymological relation to our feline friends.

    #English #Vocabulary #wordoftheday #MW #WOTD

  19. 📕 Word of the Day: paragon

    paragon • \PAIR-uh-gahn\ • noun

    Paragon is a formal word that refers to a person or thing that is perfect or excellent in some way and should be considered a model or example to be copied.

    // In Arthurian legend, Sir Galahad is depicted as a paragon of virtue.

    📝 Examples:
    "With a bar staff locally renowned for its cocktails, curated French cuisine, an extensive champagne menu and immaculately stylish atmosphere ... Claude is the local paragon of elegance." — Elijah Decious, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 18 Feb. 2026

    📜 Did you know?
    Paragon comes from the Old Italian word paragone, which literally means "touchstone." A touchstone is a black stone that was formerly used to judge the purity of gold or silver. The metal was rubbed on the stone and the color of the streak it left indicated its quality. In modern English, both touchstone and paragon have come to signify a standard against which something should be judged. Ultimately, paragon comes from the Greek verb parakonan, meaning "to sharpen," from the prefix para- ("alongside of") and akonē, meaning "whetstone."

    #English #Vocabulary #wordoftheday #MW #WOTD

  20. 📕 Word of the Day: halcyon

    halcyon • \HAL-see-un\ • adjective

    Halcyon is most often used to describe a happy and successful time in the past that is remembered as being better than today. It can also mean “calm, peaceful” or “prosperous, affluent.”

    // She does not regret retiring, but looks back fondly on the halcyon years of her career.

    📝 Examples:
    “The first half of Alice Winn’s bestselling In Memoriam is set at Preshute, an English boys’ boarding school in the early twentieth century. It is here, in the idyllic countryside, where the boys discuss poetry and get up to all sorts of high-jinks and japes, and where two students, Gaunt and Ellwood, fall in love. Then the boys are ejected into the horror and abyss of WWI trenches. When they are reunited, mentally and physically scarred, Preshute is but a dream and their adolescent love, a halcyon place that can only be returned to in memory.” — Madeleine Dunnigan, LitHub.com, 16 Jan. 2026

    📜 Did you know?
    Halcyon has drifted along contentedly in English for centuries, but it hatched from a tumultuous story. According to Greek mythology, Alkyone, the daughter of the god of the winds, became so distraught over her husband Ceyx’s death at sea that she threw herself into the ocean to join him. The gods were moved by the couple’s love, and took pity on them by turning them into halcyon birds, a bird identified with the kingfisher. (Kingfishers are known for plunging into water after prey.) According to the legend, the birds built their nests on the sea, which so charmed Alkyone’s father that he created a period of unusual calm that lasted until the birds’ eggs hatched. Our word halcyon reflects the story in multiple ways. When halcyon was first used in English in the 14th century it was as a noun referring to the mythical bird, and later to actual kingfishers as well. Adjective use developed in the 16th century and now most often evokes those calm waters: the word typically describes an idyllic time in the past.

    #English #Vocabulary #wordoftheday #MW #WOTD