Things Danny Likes
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
e.e. Cummings
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Famous Times Square Kiss in Color
Black and white version of this photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. It was taken on V-J Day in Times Square and was published in Life magazine in 1945.
Reddit user mygrapefruit colorized the photo using Photoshop CS 5 on a Wacom tablet. “I found some vintage postcards of Times Square to figure out the color of the buildings and some signs,” she said. “The rest of the colors I guessed by using common sense.” -
From Here to Eternity
The recently deceased Ernest Borgnine plays a racist sadist in this film and outshines even Sinatra, who won the academy award for his role. Lancaster steals the scene though by seeming to tower over Borgnine.
It was the first time I felt physically intimidated by an actor on the screen. -
From Allan Eckert’s The Frontiersmen #death #literature #ohio #history #vintage #prose #foundobject #gore #gruesome (Taken with instagram)
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Teddy Roosevelt’s senior picture.
Little known fact: In high school, voted most likely to have a child’s play thing named after him. -
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Well, looks like we have another 7,000 years to go before Roland Emmerich’s sequel.
archaeologicalnews:
In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural.
In addition to a still vibrant scene of a king and his retinue, the walls are rife with calculations that…
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We should polish the Statue of Liberty and then give her a clear coat.
~Boggsy
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In the 19th Century having a photograph taken was a lengthy process. Frustrated by the difficulties of getting children to sit still long enough to snap a proper photo , photographers in the 1800’s conceived of a technique called “The Hidden Mother”. Draping a sheet over the mothers head in an attempt to camouflage her as a part of the furniture to better emphasize the child, the mother was then able to hold her infant and keep them still long enough for the camera to get an exposure. Vintage photographs already have a eerie feel to them, but these images of moms as cloaked phantoms take the creep factor to the next level.
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Portrait of Marie Mancini
By Jacob Ferdinand Voet
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking
it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly
flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look
into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the
back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an
unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down
before, and offer a sacrifice to…
