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November 7, 1917 Macy's department store menu for War Time.

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whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.

and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.

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Damage to Seydlitz from HMS Queen Mary's 13.5" in guns during the Battle of Jutland.

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handing out weird PDFs i saved years ago and never read to the trick or treaters

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October 30, 1926 Cover of "The New Yorker" magazine.

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some might exist in another morphed occupation but just these plain & simple

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2024, THE YEAR OF LOST FROZEN EXPLORERS BEING FOUND 😭😭😭

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Barbra Streisand in “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” (1970) costumes by Cecil Beaton

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"Dancers of the Opera-Comique in Paris try on the respirators provided by the Service de la Defense.”

May 2nd, 1939.

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The SS Warrimoo, a passenger steamship traveling from Vancouver to Australia, was silently knifing its way across the mid-Pacific waters. The navigator had just finished calculating a star fix and handed the results to Captain John DS. Phillips.

The Warrimoo's coordinates were LAT 0º 31' N, LONG 179 30' W. The date was December 31, 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton announced, "We're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line."

Captain Phillips was prankish enough to seize the opportunity to do the nautical feat of a lifetime. He summoned his navigators to the bridge to double-check the ship's position. He altered his course slightly to focus directly on his target. He then altered the engine's speed.

The calm weather and clear night worked to his advantage. At midnight, the SS Warrimoo rested on the Equator, exactly where it had crossed the International Date Line. The ramifications of this odd arrangement were numerous.

The ship's bow was in the Southern Hemisphere, in the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere, in the midst of winter. The date on the aft portion of the ship was December 31, 1899. The date on the forward half of the ship was January 1, 1900. The ship experienced multiple days, months, years, seasons, and centuries simultaneously.

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Relief depicting a Roman Pharmacy

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1920’s French perfume bottle

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Young people dancing to jazz music at the Storyville Club. Copenhagen, Denmark. 1952

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These buildings in the San Juan Hill area of the Upper West Side, seen in 1939, were torn down to build Lincoln Center.

Photo: Lee Sievan via MCNY/.entrelineas.org

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Ships with height differences. Reblog if you agree

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Rhyton in the shape of a rams head, Attic Greek, 5th century BC

from Phoenix Ancient Art