thepittsburghhistoryjournal:

Pittsburgh at night, 1955. W. Eugene Smith. 

Thirty-two.

Also, I’m dying to stand beside a train and feel the wind hit me right in the fucking face.

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writingpittsburgh:

Pittsburgh before smoke control.  See more here.

55 days.

I’m coming, don’t worry.

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fyeah-history:

Skeletons locked in an eternal embrace
This image shows two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in an embrace and buried outside Mantua, Italy. The couple are thought to have died young because both had all teeth intact.

fyeah-history:

Jewelled skulls of martyred saints
Taken from the catacombs of Rome in the 17th century, the relics of twelve martyred saints were then attired in the regalia of the period before being interred in a remote church on the German/Czech border.’

laughingsquid:

Rare Photographs Taken Aboard the Titanic (1912)

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“Vivaldi money I made”

This makes me miss music appreciation.

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life:

Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr.

Pictured: Among his landmark early addresses, King’s speech that day, known as “Give Us the Ballot,” urged President Eisenhower and members of Congress to protect the most basic rights of democracy for all American citizens:

“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo,” King said in his powerful, rich preacher’s voice. “It is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation…. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.”

(see more — NEVER SEEN: MLK & the Freedom Rides)

treeroots:

Cotton Tree, Freetown by jeffwack98 on Flickr.

The Cotton Tree is an historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. According to legend, the “Cotton Tree” gained importance in 1792 when a group of former African American slaves, who had gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American War of Independence, settled the site of modern Freetown. These Black Loyalist settlers, called “Nova Scotians” or “Navitians” in Sierra Leone, founded Freetown on March 11th 1792. According to tradition, they landed on the shoreline and walked up to a giant tree just above the bay and held a thanksgiving service there, gathering around the tree in a large group and praying and singing hymns to thank God for their deliverance to a free land. Its exact age is unknown, but it is known to have existed in 1787.

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Nikola Tesla in his lab.

Titanic’s Propeller, 1985

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Freedom Riders in New York City, 1961

Members of a group called “The Washington Freedom Riders Committee” hang sings on the side of a bus at Times Square May 30th before leaving for Washington, D.C.

18thcenturylove:

Catherine II of Russia in the Mirror by Johann-Baptist Lampi the Elder, ca 1793

 I love her to death.