That time we celebrated nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll with a matching cake and hat.
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Sept. 16, 1917: Jubilation at the draft — draftees arrived at the new Camp Dix (now Fort Dix) near Trenton, dancing as they waited to be assigned to their companies. Photo: The New York Times
A 10-year-old girl directing an orchestra at an experimental elementary school for gifted children at Hunter College. New York, 1948.
By Nina Leen
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bhra:
brooklyn & queens bmt transit map via www.brooklynrail.net
all those solid red lines were trolley lines!
UH WHAT LET’S GO BACK TO THE TROLLEY SYSTEM THEN, WTF?!???~?!?!?!!??!
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Bicycling rules
From 1969: “An invitation to the undertaker.”
From c. 1895, for women: “Don’t imagine everybody is looking at you.”
“Don’t imagine everybody is looking at you,” oh my god, I love it so much.
It doesn’t get more terrific than this: a picture of famous architects dressed up as their buildings they’ve designed, not looking too thrilled. It’s a bit hard to make out the buildings, Squibb Building (Ely Jacques Kahn), Chrysler Building (William Van Alen), 1 Wall Street (Ralph Walker),
Happy Halloween, y’all.
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“Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.”
After realizing a woman was running Boston marathon organizer Jock Semple went after Kathrine Switzer. Other runners blocked him and she went on to finish the race. 1967.
BADASS.
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Who Wore It Better of the Day: And now this — JFK Jr. or Buster Bluth?
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I. Can’t. Even.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbfzwcAJcd1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Who Wore It Better of the Day: And now this — JFK Jr. or Buster Bluth?
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I. Can’t. Even.
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Chekhov reading The Seagull to the company of the Moscow Arts Theatre
1. Mark Twain - “He had his leather bound notebooks custom made according to his own design idea. Each page had a tab; once a page had been used, he would tear off its tab, allowing him to easily find the next blank page for his jottings”
2 & 3. Charles Darwin - “The notebooks were filled with memorandum to himself on things to look further into, questions he wanted to answer, scientific speculations, notes on the many books he was currently reading, natural observations, sketches, and lists of the books he had read and wanted to read. But the progression is far from orderly: the entries are chaotically arranged and wide-ranging; they jump from one scientific subject to the next and are interspersed with notes on correspondences and conversations. He would rest the notebook on his desk and write horizontally down the page with a pen, and, like Isaac Newton, he would sometimes start in from both ends of the notebook at once and work towards the middle.
4. Jack Kerouac - The notebook entry reads:
“Ginsberg — intelligent enuf, interested in the outward appearance & pose of great things, intelligent enuf to know where to find them, but once there he acts like Jerry Newman, the photographer anxious to be photographed photographing —— Ginsberg wants to run his hand up the backs of people, for this he gives and seldom takes — He is also a mental screwball
*(Tape recorder anxious to be tape recorded tape recording) (like Seymour Barab anxious to have his name in larger letters than Robert Louis Stevenson, like Steinberg & Verlaine Rimbaud Baudelaire”
5. Ernest Hemingway - The notebook entry reads:
“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway
I was born on July 21, 1899
My favorite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White.
My favorite flower is lady slipper and tiger lily.
My favorite sports are trout fishing, hiking, shooting, football and boxing.
My favorite studies are English, zoology and chemistry.
I intend to travel and write.”
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