Beneath the Saharan sun, Ghadames shimmers like a mirage—its labyrinthine Old Town a maze of mudbrick homes, painted with delicate geometric motifs and cooled by ancient foggaras.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
This technique often is used with fencing to create a visual barrier and to startle geese when the tape shimmers in the breeze.
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Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
23 Aug. 2025
Next to a rocky limestone cliff, a small lake covered with lilies and algae glistens beside a crumbling 19th-century building that resembles an Ottoman bathhouse.
At the absolute highest energies, the Moon glows with a light all its own, powered by nuclear recoils, and irrespective of any light, or anything at all, emitted by the Sun.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
4 Sep. 2025
Its Hungarian Parliament glows at twilight—mirrored in the river’s slow current—while layered history lingers in its bullet-scarred walls.
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