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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ivan Shishkin, Russian painter, 1832-1898 Oak Grove, 1887 Oil on canvas Kyiv National Picture Gallery, Ukraine 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“There is no greater happiness than to live for others.” — Leo Tolstoy, 1847 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra performs II. Andante, from Johannes Brahms' Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, composed in 1887. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Iconic Luskentyre Beach, located on the spectacular west coast of the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photos by © Nigel Danson

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Built in 1896 on Kossuth Square to represent the independence of Hungarian law, Budapest’s Palace of Justice shines under new lights. Now reconstructed, it will once again serve as Seat of the Supreme Court. The timing is impeccable, given recent events. 🇭🇺🏛️⚖️ 📷 Sándor Csíki

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Autumn sunset at Zelenci Nature Reserve, Slovenia 🇸🇮. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by © Jaka Ivančič

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Life among the ruins. Children sit by a massive pile of rubble at Úri utca 24 in the Buda Castle district following the 1945 Siege of Budapest. A century earlier, this was the home of Ferenc Erkel, the composer of Hungary’s national anthem. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Géza Buzinkay© | Fortepan

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The grace of the soul cannot be hidden." — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862 Yuja Wang performs II. Quasi adagio from Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, completed in 1856. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Simeon Marcus Larson, Swedish painter, 1825–1864 Storm på havet | Stormy Sea, 1857 Oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 The Art Bog

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a certain charm to life in the mid 1800s. 😳😉🤷‍♂️ 📷 From Leo Tolstoy Literature

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 really is a beautiful country." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photos by Nigel Danson©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sanford Robinson Gifford, American painter, 1823-1880 The Wilderness, 1860 Oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

James Renwick Brevoort, American painter, 1832–1918 Inside Eastern Point, Gloucester Bay, 1871 Oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Senuri Nimaya

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Budapest, 1912. Zoltán Kodály stands beside Béla Bartók at Kodály’s home. The two friends shared a passion for folk songs passed from one generation to the next. Those melodies would help shape their own work—and change the sound of 20th-century music. 🎼🕊️ 📷 History of Music©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolute cinema in Budapest 🎬 Fidesz MP & Orbán apparatchik Balázs Hankó prepares to leave Parliament after being summoned by prosecutors to face charges of misappropriation of billions of HUF from National Cultural Fund. Problem is, the car took off without him. Lolz. 😳🤣🤷‍♂️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Johann Jungblut, German painter, 1860–1912 Autumn Sunset, 1887 Oil on canvas Private collection 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Great Egret (Nagy kócsag) reflected in the karst springs of the Fényes Nature Trail in Tata, Hungary. This alder peat-bog forest is fed by clear, warm karst springs that stay 20–22°C year-round, creating a magical haven for wildlife. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Tamás Éles© | Szeretlek Tata

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed." — Charlotte Brontë, Evening Solace, 1846 Turkish classical violinist Ceren Türkmenoğlu performs II. Malinconia, Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonata for Violin No. 2, composed in 1923. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The breathtaking grand staircase of the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest. Designed by legendary architect Miklós Ybl and built between 1875 and 1884. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Dániel Balázs Harcz©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Jeannie Wilson Templeton©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Ubicumque homo est, ibi benefici locus est." — Seneca, De Vita Beata, c. 58 CE Polish classical pianist Przemysław Lechowski performs Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1, composed in 1832. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So grateful that America 🇺🇸 has given the world a true leader; a man of faith, grace, compassion, decency, and boundless humanity. Thank you kindly, Pope Leo XIV. You have stirred the souls of so many in Paris today, and around the world. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo @richraho.bsky.social

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

King’s College Chapel, built between 1446 and 1515, Cambridge, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Gary Curtis© | Architecture & Design

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fade to gold... in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Mike Smith©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Extensive list of all the accomplishments achieved by President Trump during Chinese President Xi Jinping's three-day state visit to Washington, D.C. 🔎✍️🏼✔️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me: Hon, thinking of opening up a small café. My wife: Oh, really... is that so? Me: Yup, just gonna serve espresso. My wife: How are you going to afford rent, pay employees, cover marketing costs, utilities? Me: ☕️🤔💡 📷 Fortepan© | Zsolt Barta, Budapest régi kocsmái

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Two brothers meet after being separated by the Berlin Wall." Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪. Christmas season, 1963. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photos by Ian Berry© Magnum Photos | Historic Photographs

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Otto Didrik Ottesen, Danish painter, 1816–1892 Still Life of Summer Flowers, c. 1865 Oil on canvas Private collection 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Mousumi Das | Botanical Art

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." — Albert Camus, Le Malentendu, 1944 Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926 The Avenue, 1878 Oil on canvas Private collection 📷 From Illusions©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Descending from Formin Gorge in the Dolomites in Italy 🇮🇹." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Andrea Scarpa©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Herman Traugott Louis Fuechsel, German-American painter, 1833-1915 Hudson River Scene, 1875 Oil on Canvas Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Senuri Nimaya

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties at all—but right through every human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1973 Sol Gabetta performs the soaring Elgar Cello Concerto. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Adorbs... Hungarian retro-vintage Camping chess set. ♟️🧐🥰

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

William Bliss Baker, American painter, 1859–1886 Fallen Monarchs, 1886 Oil on canvas Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Senuri Nimaya | The Hudson River School of Painters

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shout it from the rooftops! Russia is a bully and a menace; a prevailing, existential threat to peace and prosperity on the continent. 🪖🥷🏻🇷🇺 📷 Cerebral Wisdom

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Willem van Aelst, Dutch painter, 1627-1683. Still Life with Flowers, 1651. Oil on panel. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷Mousumi Das | Botanical Art

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We are all of us failures—at least, the best of us are." — J.M. Barrie, 1905 South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs II. Adagio di molto, Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, composed in 1904. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare, 1595 South Korean classical pianist Yunchan Lim performs I. Andante, Alexander Scriabin, Piano Sonata No. 2, composed in 1897. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Peder Mørk Mønsted, Danish painter, 1859–1941. Flusslandschaft im Spreewald, 1912. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"These tears are of a different world." — Friedrich Schiller, Die Piccolomini, 1799 American conductor James Gaffigan, Orchestre national de France, and the Choeur de Radio France perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lacrimosa, Requiem in D minor, composed in 1791. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The stunning Danube Bend 🇭🇺. Settled as far back as the Neolithic era, and later, Celtic tribes lived along the banks. The Romans incorporated the bend into their northern empire border fortification, called Limes Pannonicus. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Regina Kiss© | National Geographic

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This mesmerizing stained-glass masterpiece frames the grand staircase of Budapest’s Kőrössy Villa, built in 1900. The iconic, swirling composition of irises and sunflowers was crafted by the legendary master artisan Miksa Róth. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Balázs Dániel Harcz©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." — Carl Sagan, Contact, 1985 American classical violinist Hilary Hahn performs the exquisite opening theme in I. Allegro moderato, Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, composed in 1878. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Black-crested Coquette (Lophornis helenae) is a species of hummingbird found in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Tiny, insect-like hummingbird that could easily be passed off as a big moth or bumblebee. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Javier Chaves© | Wondershots

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The grand staircase of the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace in Budapest, built in 1885. Originally designed by Fellner & Helmer as a private residence, its centerpiece woodwork was crafted by legendary 19th-century Hungarian master carpenter, Endre Thék. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Balázs Dániel Harcz©

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anton Mauve, Dutch painter, 1838-1888 On the Heath near Laren, 1887 Oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Annaliese Hess | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When my dad arrived to the States in '56, he was confronted by the racial strife of the time. At a restaurant in Ohio, he noticed a waiter verbally abusing black patrons. He stood up & walked out in protest. From that point on, my father aligned with the Civil Rights Movement. 🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The confluence of the Danube and Hron (Garam) rivers near Esztergom, Hungary, revealing dramatic sandbanks during low water. The Garam flows 300 km from its mountain source in Slovakia's Low Tatras to meet the Danube here. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by József Kádár© | National Geographic

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." — Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus, 1677 Clara-Jumi Kang and Sunwook Kim perform Adagio, Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No 1, composed in 1878. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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