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26/06/2024

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25/06/2024

The ancient theatre of Epidaurus,Greece 🇬🇷❤️

24/06/2024

The mysterious Mayan Palenque Astronaut has captured the imagination of many scholars and enthusiasts alike. Depicted on the lid of Pakal the Great's sarcophagus in Palenque, this figure has sparked discussions of extraterrestrial connections to the Mayan civilization. Could this intricate carving truly represent an ancient astronaut navigating a spacecraft, suggesting a deeper connection to beings beyond our world?

24/06/2024

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24/06/2024

A beautiful woman on a bicycle, USA, 1935.

24/06/2024

A c.1853 daguerreotype image of California gold miners in camp.

24/06/2024

01/06/2024

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Eexplaining her "Gracie Allen" character: Gracie thought she was terribly smart. Gracie's character was different. Gracie thought everybody was out of step but her. She was always helping people. She was always sorry for you. Like if she would say, "My sister got up in the middle of the night, she screamed, she looked down at her feet and they turned black". You would say to her, "What did she do?" She was sorry for you for asking that question. She thought you were pretty dumb not to know what to do if your feet turned black. "She took off her stocking and went to sleep again."

Attending secretarial school in 1922, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was invited by her roommate to Union Hill, New Jersey, to see if she was interested in working with either member of an act that was splitting up. The act was George Burns and Billy Lorraine, and she chose George. She and Burns made their first performance at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, where they were paid $5 per day. George saw that the audience not only found Gracie's character funny but they fell in love with her, and he did, too. He immediately changed the act to give her all the funny lines and played her straight man. They became a hit.

When she went to work with Burns, she was engaged to another man. It took four years for George to change her mind, but they went on to become one of the best remembered couples in Hollywood history.

Legend has it that, in the early 1940s, during the height of their popularity, Burns had a brief extramarital affair. He felt so guilty, he bought her an extravagant silver centerpiece for the dining room table, but since neither brought up the affair even once, he assumed she knew nothing about it. Years later, when Gracie had a friend over for coffee, George overheard her say, "You know, I wish George would cheat on me again. I'd really like a new centerpiece for the table."

In 1940, Allen announced she was running for President of the United States on the Surprise Party ticket.[ Burns and Allen did a cross-country whistlestop campaign tour on a private train, performing their live radio show in different cities. In one of her campaign speeches, Gracie said, "I don't know much about the Lend-Lease Bill, but if we owe it we should pay it." Another typical Gracie-ism on the campaign trail went like this: "Everybody knows a woman is better than a man when it comes to introducing bills into the house." The Surprise Party mascot was the kangaroo; the motto was "It's in the bag." As part of the gag, Allen (in reality, the Burns and Allen writers) published a book, "Gracie Allen for President," which included photographs from their nationwide campaign tour and the Surprise Party convention. Allen received an endorsement from Harvard University.

From an Allen campaign speech: "As I look around me and see all all these trusting and believing faces shining up at me with love and respect, tears come into my eyes. And do you know why? My girdle is killing me." (IMDb/Wikipedia)

27/05/2024

Shoes Details of Perseus, 1804-1806, by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Collage by: SJ

27/05/2024

The Da Vinci Globe, dated 1504, is the oldest known globe to show the New World. Engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined lower halves of ostrich eggs.

If the first map to represent the American continent is that of Juan de la Cosa, made in the year 1500, and the first in which the name America appears to identify it is the so-called Universalis Cosmographia of Martin Waldseemüller, of 1507, the first globe that showed the New World was created by none other than Leonardo da Vinci in 1504.

The globe is made with two bottom halves of ostrich eggshell joined together, and with a calcium counterweight placed inside the bottom one (glued with egg white) to keep the globe upright. It has a diameter of 11.2 centimeters and weighs just 134 grams. The map depicted includes drawings of ships, a volcano, sailors, a monster, waves, conical mountains, rivers and other elements and place names.

27/05/2024

Mysterious mummy still has blood vessels intact after 500 years buried in ice. Aссording to Xіnhua, Dr. Johаn Reіnhard аnd hіs аrchаeologicаl teаm dіscovered а tomb wіth three myѕteriouѕ mummіes on Mаrch 16, 1999 аt Llullаillаco mountаin loсated on the border of Chіle аnd Argentіna.

04/05/2024

Bicycle messengers seated in front of their bikes. USA. Ca. 1890s. Photo by Charles H Currier.

04/05/2024

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Lincoln Historian Christian McWhirter shares his perspective on our newest acquisition and how it spotlights a key moment in American History.

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03/05/2024

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30/04/2024

Explore the rare skeleton of conjoined twins at the Mütter Museum.
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30/04/2024

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Abraham Lincoln loved poetry and wrote a bit of it himself. Some was silly or sarcastic. Some was more ambitious. You can examine his poetry here: https://allpoetry.com/Abraham-Lincoln

27/04/2024

I was there then …

The Garment District in Manhattan, New York City, in the 1960s. View looking south along 7th Avenue (near the intersection with 34th Street) as pedestrians crowd the sidewalk.

15/04/2024

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May 1922: 78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C -Marvelous History