Tweet I was struck by the ongoing project of a Russian, Sergey Larenkov. He has juxtaposed World War II photos and their present-day locations, resulting in many haunting images. Only a few places in the world have been fully photographed for Google Street View. So to see how it works …
Tweet Since the second season of Game of Thrones has started, quite a few viewers and readers will be hunting down maps of Westeros, the imaginary world in which the series takes place. The Map of Westeros belongs to a tradition of Fantasy Maps, which not only help the reader …
prostheticknowledge:
Image from a great (long) post on Adam Curtis’ blog about the history of ‘Think Tanks’ in Britain
Above is an image of Reg Calvert and his wife:
Reg is really the hero of this whole story. He was a bucaneering kind of pop …
My Handmade Hymnal: The Museum That Time Forgot.: myhandmadehymnal:
Alrighty, I’ve been following this blog “curiousexpeditions.org” for a long time and finally want to share it with everyone. The blog basically consist of these two folks runnin…
mediumaevum:
Can’t…stop..looking… !!!!!
Joan of Arc by Eugene Thirion
thank you kryokats
picturesofwar:
American fighter planes flying above the USS Missouri following the official signing of the Japanese surrender, putting an end to WWII.
September 2, 1945 – 66 years ago today
platinumage:
Rudolphe Töpffer’s The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck (1837), which has been described as the earliest known comic book
klg19:
A sweet little history of fashion, in the guise of a British mall commercial.
I applaud them for acknowledging the breadth of ’80s styles: I was always more Human League than Debbie Gibson, personally.
dgorman88:
Shanghai in 1990 and 2010.
