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Great aerial cinematography, plus Clara Bow!

So Youth laughed and wept and live its heedless hour, while over the world hung a cloud which spread and spread until its shadow fell in some degree on every living person.

Wings (1927) - directed by William A. Wellman

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Oregon coast

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Incredible talent, essential film history

what about a poll centering the staff Behind the production? like for the hottest director or something

might be a fun change of pace

hahaha I started putting this together and then I realized the vast majority of those guys were dirtbags so. no

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This genius

Hilma af Klint, Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 9, 1915

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Starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, and Ida Lupino. The rats were played by children in costume, including the son of director Burt I. Gordon. This may be the ultimate 70s production.

Bizarre photos from the set of “The Food of the Gods” (1976).

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transient orcas at the labs today. photos from my friends camera

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

New research has solved the mystery about J.M.W. Turner’s watercolour sketches, which were previously thought to show the notorious fire of 1834 at the Houses of Parliament. As cataloguer Matthew Imms explains, contemporary images point to a different fire, which consumed the Grand Storehouse of the Tower of London in October 1841.

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Adorbs

Unknown, Amber Bear found in 1887 in a peat bog near Slupsk, Poland. Thought to be Neolithic between 1700 and 650 BCE.

via Alain Truong museum collections

more unknown bears

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Andrei Tarkovsky, The Mirror (Zerkalo), 1975

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Unknown Nude female holding monkeys Third Intermediate Period–Late Period; Dynasty 22–26 ca. 945–525 B.C. Egypt Pale blue faience H. 20.7 × W. 8 × D. 3.3 cm (8 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 1 5/16 in.) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Triad

Wayne Thiebaud - Salt, Sugar and Pepper (1970)

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World of Wonder

No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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Did Charlotte guess? DID CHARLOTTE KNOW?

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

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He was a brilliant math professor too. My son was a big fan throughout his childhood. RIP sir, you helped form my kid's sense of satire and that is much appreciated.

RIP Tom Lehrer 1928 - 2025

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I love Tom Lehrer's music and style of satire and from what I can tell was an all around great guy, who famously hated Henry Kissinger. He was an energetic person who inspired comedy musicians such as Weird Al.

He lived a rich life until the age of 97.

He made his entire catalog of music public domain before his death and it was mirrored by the Internet Archive.

You can find them here

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Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -

why are your legs so long?

I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?