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Unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each other's mouths. Ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. (via Shorpy )

Unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each other's mouths. Ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. (via Shorpy )

A policeman in London directing three giraffe necked women from Burma along Elgin Avenue, London, 1935. (Photo by General Photographic Agency) Giraffe necked women of Burma having tea in England, circa 1935. (Photo by General Photographic Agency) A Padaung, or [...]

A policeman in London directing three giraffe necked women from Burma along Elgin Avenue, London, 1935. (Photo by General Photographic Agency) Giraffe necked women of Burma having tea in England, circa 1935. (Photo by General Photographic Agency) A Padaung, or [...]

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A cyclist struggles with an enormous hat. (Street style 1906- Edward Linley Sambourne)

A cyclist struggles with an enormous hat. (Street style 1906- Edward Linley Sambourne)

Returning for a second time, Brainchild Festival has announced this year's line-up and it looks like a fucking masterpiece. See it in all it's glory below. Taking place from Friday 5 th to Sunday 7 th of July, Brainchild is a not-for-profit festival where many of the acts will be playing for free in support of the organiser's ethos. Hotly tipped artists and Crack In The Road favourites, including Moko and Jamie Isaac, litter the line-up. "We want to build a community that brings together emerging artists, poets, filmmakers and [...]

Last night it rained, not a furious rain falling in sheets but a steady drop by drop rain. I had my bedroom window opened, and I fell asleep to the sound of the drops. This morning when I woke up, the day was cloudy and damp. Since then the sun has taken over the sky and brightened the day. It's a pretty morning. The window view from here in the den is one of my favorites. The branches of the tall oak tree fill the window, and I get to watch the tree change every season. The leaves [...]

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1955 was a year of change for Marilyn Monroe. After leaving Hollywood for New York, and abandoning her contract with Twentieth Century Fox, Marilyn was no longer ‘just a dumb blonde’, but a true renegade. In January, Marilyn formed a production company with photographer Milton Greene, and moved into a suite at the Ambassador Hotel. Despite frenzied speculation, Marilyn largely evaded publicity. Dressed down in casual clothes and no make-up, she wandered the city unnoticed, and learned about ‘the Method’, a deeper, more challenging approach to drama, with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. And Marilyn also [...]

1955 was a year of change for Marilyn Monroe. After leaving Hollywood for New York, and abandoning her contract with Twentieth Century Fox, Marilyn was no longer ‘just a dumb blonde’, but a true renegade. In January, Marilyn formed a production company with photographer Milton Greene, and moved into a suite at the Ambassador Hotel. Despite frenzied speculation, Marilyn largely evaded publicity. Dressed down in casual clothes and no make-up, she wandered the city unnoticed, and learned about ‘the Method’, a deeper, more challenging approach to drama, with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. And Marilyn also [...]

Sam, a 7-lb rhesus monkey is prepared for his flight into space by being secured in a 100-lb biopack drum. Sam then rode a Project Mercury-type capsule to a height of 55 miles and landed 200 miles out in the Atlantic. The “Little Joe” experiment to test the capsule's escape rocket system was a success. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 4th December 1959 A life-size replica of the original Sputnik satellite [...]

Sam, a 7-lb rhesus monkey is prepared for his flight into space by being secured in a 100-lb biopack drum. Sam then rode a Project Mercury-type capsule to a height of 55 miles and landed 200 miles out in the Atlantic. The “Little Joe” experiment to test the capsule's escape rocket system was a success. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 4th December 1959 A life-size replica of the original Sputnik satellite [...]