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Street at Biskra, 1906

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Street at Biskra
November 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Street at Biskra, 1906
Street at Biskra
February 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Street at Biskra, 1906
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Street at Biskra
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Street in the old town, Biskra, Algeria, 1899.

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📷 Historic Photographs | Library of Congress
July 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
architecture.bsky.social
Pink Thermal Baths, located in Biskra Palms, California, is a 32,000 SF spa and bathhouse designed by FORMA
Pink Thermal Baths
October 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
gertiewentworth.bsky.social
1893 • André Gide and Paul-Albert Laurens, Biskra, Algeria
June 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
extremetemps.bsky.social
HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN NORTH AFRICA

AUGUST RECORDS
47.9 Zaghouan TUNISIA
47.6 Biskra ALGERIA
45.9 M Sila ALGERIA

HIGH MINIMUMS
31.0 Ain Sefra ALGERIA
29.5 Monastir TUNISIA
extremetemps.bsky.social Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · Aug 23
HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN NORTH AFRICA
Another day >48C in ALGERIA
Minimums again up to 35C and several records of
August High Minimums broken:
ALGERIA
32.7 Mila
30.1 Tebessa
TUNISIA
28.8 Kelibia
29.1 Mahdia

Next week temperatures up to 50C and NIGHT mins >35C ! HISTORY IS COMING
August 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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The camaraderie between Lawrence and Algeria may not end with the World Cup. Sister Cities Lawrence met tonight to discuss a possible partnership with Biskra, Algeria. lawrenceks.news/4vUqC8g
Sister Cities Lawrence considers Biskra, Algeria connection after World Cup experience
The camaraderie between Lawrence and Algeria may not end with the World Cup. Sister Cities Lawrence met Wednesday to discuss a possible partnership with Biskra, Algeria.
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July 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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“Tête de femme de Biskra” (Head of a Woman from Biskra) by Marie Caire Tonoir (French) - Oil on canvas / 1899–1900 - Musée du quai Branly (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #MarieCaireTonoir #Tonoir #quaiBranly #art #arte #artText #PortraitofaWoman #MuseeDuQuaiBranly #WomenArtists
Made after French artist Marie Caire Tonoir’s winter stay in Biskra, Algeria (بسكرة) in 1899–1900, the portrait sits at the crossroads of intimate observation and the colonial-era “traveler’s” gaze that shaped so many North African images in French art. The title locates the sitter by place rather than name. It’s an absence that matters, yet the painting refuses spectacle with no theatrical setting and just the quiet insistence of her presence. The close, bust-length portrait centers an unidentified young woman against a softly brushed, gray-beige background. Her medium-toned skin is modeled with warm light across the cheeks and nose. Her dark eyes are heavily shadowed, steady, and direct. Fine facial tattoos mark her features including a small motif on the forehead and a narrow vertical line descending from the lower lip to the chin. Her head with dark black hair is crowned with an abundant, turban of dark wrapped fabric that swells outward on both sides. Long, tiered earrings hang beside her face with silver discs above darker, fan-like pendants. She wears a red-brown blouse with a modest opening at the throat, wrapped in a darker shawl. The paint surface is visibly textured, as if the artist worked quickly and confidently, letting edges soften into the surrounding air. Her tattoos and jewelry are rendered with restraint and specificity, suggesting lived adornment rather than costume, while her unsmiling mouth and level gaze read as self-possessed, even guarded. For Tonoir, trained within academic circles and exhibiting in Paris, Biskra offered subjects outside metropolitan life. For the sitter, this moment records a person whose identity exceeds what the archive preserves. Seen now, the work asks us to hold both truths at once: its beauty and dignity, and the unequal power that determined who was named, who was looked at, and how that image traveled.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 AM
extremetemps.bsky.social
MEDITERRANEAN HEAT WAVE
While cool prevails in the East,record heat continues in North Africa and Western Europe.
Today 49.4C at Biskra Algeria after a Min of 35.0C.
RECORDS HIGH MINIMUMS IN TUNISIA
32.5 Medenine
31.6 Gabes
30.5 Djerba

In FRANCE July Max record:39.2 Soulan
July 24, 2026 at 6:40 PM
extremetemps.bsky.social
EXTRAORDINARY 50 DEGREES
MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN AFRICA HISTORY
RECORDS *=all time
ALGERIA
49.4 Tarf*
49.3 Bouchegouf
48.6 Annaba*
48.3 Skikda
47.9 Guelma*
47.8 Tizi Ouzou*
47.6 Biskra
TUNISIA
49.2 Beja*
48 Tozeaur
48 Gabes
47.9 Zaghouan
47.6 Sfax
47.0 Siliana*

Worse tomorrow!
August 26, 2026 at 7:19 PM
extremetemps.bsky.social
YET AGAIN ALMOST 50c IN ALGERIA AND TUNISIA
(Biskra and Tozeur) and will go on and on....
ALL TIME RECORDS today
46.9 Gafsa, TUNISIA
44.7 Saida, ALGERIA

Fierce heat also in SPAIN
Monthly record at Albacete with 41.7C

Hotter tomorrow:45C+ in Spain.
extremetemps.bsky.social Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · Jul 21
‼️ALMOST 50c AGAIN IN TUNISIA
49.6 Kairouan

More records
MOROCCO
47.3 Oujda all time tied
ALGERIA
44.4 Saida all time "
Min 31.9 Medea hottest night
TUNISIA
48.3 Beja monthly

EUROPE HIGH MINIMUM RECORDS
ITALY
31.0 R.Calabria
29.8 Prizzi
SPAIN
27.7 Palma
26.3 Tortosa
22.0 Gijon
July 22, 2026 at 6:36 PM
ahistoryinart.bsky.social
'Letter writer, Biskra.' (c1900) In describing Henry Silkstone Hopwood's oriental pictures an art critic described how he: 'strikes a harmony of subtle beauty, as if his fingers had played gently with the delightful interpretation that was evolving in his mind.'
July 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
art.feediverse.org
The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), 1907 #fauvism #matisse
February 11, 2024 at 11:00 AM
birdsinmuseums.com
Saharan Dwelling, Biskra District, Algeria (Algeria, 1882)
Gustave Achille Guillaumet
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Saharan Dwelling, Biskra District, Algeria (Algeria, 1882) Gustave Achille Guillaumet Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
December 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Street at Biskra, 1906

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Street at Biskra
May 27, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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Henri Matisse, Street at Biskra.
Oil painting by Henri Matisse, "Street in Biskra". The scene depicts a sunny street in vibrant shades of pink, yellow, and terracotta. On the left, simplified green trees and a dark doorway; in the center, a path of pink stones leads to small white buildings with blue details. To the right, a tall salmon-colored wall and the silhouette of a seated figure in the lower corner. The sky is represented by brushstrokes of blue, white, and gray.
April 17, 2026 at 11:37 PM
henrimatisse.bsky.social
The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), 1907 #artbots #matisse
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The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)
April 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
henrimatisse.bsky.social
The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), 1907

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The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)
January 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), 1907
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The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)
March 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Street at Biskra, 1906
September 30, 2023 at 12:56 AM
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Algeria Biskra Constantine CPA Negress

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#VintagePostcard #AlgeriaHistory #BiskraHeritage #ConstantineVintage #NorthAfricanCulture #ColonialPostcard #HistoricalAlgeria #VintagePhotography #AlgerianVillage #TraditionalLife #OldAlgeria
March 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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In 1870, a Moorish woman from Biskra, Algeria, was photographed, capturing a moment of great cultural and historical importance. Biskra, located in the north of Algeria, was a key city, rich in history and as a cultural crossroads between Africa, the Arab world and Europe.
January 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Street at Biskra, 1906

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Street at Biskra
January 10, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954), “Blue Nude (Memory of Biskra)” (1907), oil on canvas, 140.3 x 92.1 cm.
July 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM