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Photo of woman applying lipstick near Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1943

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United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division.

 

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Photo of “Cookery 51-52” class, Mary Washington College, 1917

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“Serving breakfasts, luncheons and dinners, with practice in different styles of table service; soups, entrees, sauces, salads and desserts, with various methods of preparation and garnishings. An opportunity for review of principles learned in Cookery 51-52 is given. One single and one double period per week for the session for non-teaching Seniors.”

— from the Bulletin of the State Normal School, Fredericksburg, Virginia, June, 1917

 

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Photo of Gustave Dore, by Felix Nadar, circa 1855

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Doesn’t he look here … a little like you might expect him to look?  That was my reaction.  Switch out that haircut, and he could easily be the newest hot artist at Marvel or DC.

 

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Photo of Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain, 1895

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This has got to be one of the the greatest historical photos of all time.  That is indeed Nikola Tesla, nearly wraith-like in the background, while Mark Twain commands control of a phenomenon Tesla discovered — the human body’s ability to conduct electricity.

The picture is accidentally a perfect portrait of both.  We see the innocent, curious Tesla bathed in shadow in the background, along with Twain well lit, front and center.  The well-meaning Tesla led a haunted existence, and was consigned to relative obscurity after rival Thomas Edison stole credit for his advances.  The commanding Twain, on the other hand, benefitted from his fame.

The two were good friends.   See History Buff  for more.

 

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“Midtown Manhattan on a hot and sticky summer.” (Photo)

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Photo credit: By Steven Kreuzer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Max Braun’s “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (Photo)

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Braun: “Why the title?  Because both realities are sad.”

 

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Photo credit: By Max Braun – 60 Jahre Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37203687

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Operation Market Garden, Holland, September 1944 (Photo)

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This Memorial Day, while we all enjoy the three-day weekend, let’s also remember those who gave their lives so that we could live freely.

 

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Parachutes open overhead as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army., 09/1944
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Union Station, Washington, D.C., circa 1905 (Photo)

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This is the Grand Lobby, sometime between 1905 and 1910.

I love this photo — it’s one of the coolest I’ve laid hands on via Wikimedia Commons.

I seem to have forgotten how to insert photos into a WordPress post so that viewers can “click to enlarge.”  If any of you guys can advise me on that, I’d be grateful.

 

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Run-down truck, Long Island’s North Fork (Photo)

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Photo credit:  http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

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Fall creek in West Virginia, photo by Forest Wanderer

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