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Students swing to a jazz band in a bamboo-lined student center in Vienna, February 1959.
Photograph by Volkmar K. Wenztel, National Geographic
Doodles by a child in Medieval Novgorod.
The Art of Onfim: Medieval Novgorod Through the Eyes of a Child
Aw. Look at the battle scene. Adorable.
A representation of the 1506 Jewish Massacre in Lisbon
The Lisbon Massacre, alternatively known as the Lisbon Pogrom or the 1506 Easter Slaughter was an incident in April, 1506, in Lisbon, Portugal in which a crowd of Catholics, as well as foreign sailors who were anchored in the Tagus, persecuted, tortured, killed, and burnt at the stake hundreds of people who were accused of being Jews and, thus, guilty of deicide and heresy. This incident took place thirty years before the establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal and nine years after the Jews were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism in 1497, during the reign of King Manuel I.
Happy spring, everybody!
First Western Painting of Native Americans Discovered at the Vatican
During the recent restoration of Pinturicchio’s Resurrection fresco (1494) on the wall of the Hall of Mysteries in the Borgia Apartment at the Vatican has revealed what may be the first images of N…
1961.
Bobby Darin, with the Bobby Darin Dream Car.
Is this… is this what Homer’s Dream Car was based on?
August 1943. “Bear Mountain, New York. Interracial activities at Camp Fern Rock, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. Loretta Gyles of the Methodist Camp Service pulling a bow.” Taken by Gordon Parks.
(via Shorpy)
How A Holocaust Denier Fooled The Internet With Nazi Jetpack Soldiers
So this is a fascinating article from Jalopnik. It also mentions how this particular Holocaust denier wrote a book called The Hitler We Loved and Why.
It’s all fun and games until you click through and read the book’s Amazon reviews.
Unidentified student in a science laboratory, mid-1940s.
(via io9, who I use for my Tumblr so often that they should just hire me to run their empty placeholder Tumblr)
A couple only have eyes for each other at a Beatles concert in Wigan, 13 October 1964.
This is pretty much the only Beatles-related image I would ever post (well, and anything involving Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney together, I guess).
It is so amazingly sweet and also the face that girl in the front is making is a cartoon face.
Three grinning men smoke from intricately carved pipes in Austria, January 1961.
Photograph by Volkmar K. Wentzel, National Geographic
(Source: themasterg)
April 6, 1930. Via Shorpy.
Crazy German WWI body armor.
Posted about it here, first learned about the weird issues of WWI body armor over here.
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