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Fireworks over La Paz, after the election of Evo Morales, 22 January 2006: photo by Alhen, 2006
Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co. Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 1942: photo by Alfred Palmer, 1942 (Library of Congress)
Our God is not out of breath, because he hath blown one tempest, and swallowed a Navy: Our God hath not burnt out his eyes, because he hath looked upon a Train of Powder: In the light of Heaven, and in the darkness of hell, he sees alike; he sees not onely all Machinations of hands, when things come to action; but all Imaginations of hearts, when they are in their first Consultations; past, and present, and future, distinguish not his Quando; all is one time to him: Mountains and Vallies, Sea and Land, distinguish not his Ubi; all is one place to him: When I begin, says God to Eli, I will make an end; not onely that all Gods purposes shall have their certain end but that even then, when he begins, he makes an end: from the very beginning, imprints an infallible assurance, that whom he loves, he loves to the end: as a Circle is printed all at once, so his beginning and ending is all one.
The Divine Comedy, Inferno XXVI: Ulysses and Diomedes: William Blake, 1824-1827
Oil fires outside Kuwait City in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm: photo by Lietmotiv, 2006
The Divine Comedy, Inferno XIX: The Simoniac Pope: William Blake, 1824-1827 (Tate Gallery, London)
City under siege, waiting for the new year, Tbilisi, 1 January 2007: photo by Vladimer Shioshvili, 2007
The Divine Comedy, Inferno VII: The Stygian Lake, with Ireful Sinners Fighting: William Blake, 1824-1827 (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
New Year celebration, Wroclaw, Poland, 2001: photo by Julo, 2001
Fireboat response crews battling blazing remnants of offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, 21 April 2010: photo by US Coast Guard, 2010
Carnival closing ceremony, Patras, Greece, 10 December 2006: photo by Gontzi, 2006