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Observing a solar eclipse on January 1, 1907, in the Tian-Shan mountains, probably in modern-day Uzbekistan. This is a photograph taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, a chemist and photographer who invented a new process for color photography and used it to document the Russian empire in the time period 1905-1915. You can view many of the photos on Flickr or at the Library of Congress.
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Just take off the avocados for me! Yummy
(via foodfuck)
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Water towers do not make for easy conversions; there are going to be lots of stairs. London developer Leigh Osborne took a tower dating back to 1867 and converted it into “one of the most lavish and eccentric residences in the city”. It was a challenge; he tells the Penarth Times that “There were 2,000 dead pigeons in there, and poo that went up to the top of your wellies!”
Look what greatness can be done.
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(via foodfuck)
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NYPD Cops handcuff and interrogate Bronx boy, 7, for 10hours over missing $5
“Reyes was handcuffed and verbally, physically and emotionally abused, intimidated, humiliated, embarrassed and defamed,” the documents say. He was then charged with robbery.
“My son was crying, ‘Mommy, it wasn’t me! Mommy, it wasn’t me!’ I never imagined the cops could do that to a child. We’re traumatized,” Wilson Reyes’ distraught mom, Frances Mendez told The Post last night.
“Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs!’’ she said. “It was horrible. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
it’s a racist police state in The Bronx, raising kids to be criminals.
school-to-prison pipeline is in full effect #thenewjimcrow
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Daily chart: where is most plastic surgery performed? America is home to more cosmetic enhancement than anywhere else, but accounting for population South Korea, Greece and Italy are the biggest primpers and preeners.
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If you are not paying close attention right now, there is a man in Alabama who kidnapped a six-year-old boy from a bus and is currently holding him hostage in a tunnel. The gunman stormed into the school bus Tuesday afternoon and demanded that the driver hand him a child.
The driver, 66-year-old Charles Poland Jr., was a gentle Bible-reading man who could not stand to discipline the children on his bus because it hurt his heart, the Dothan Eagle newspaper reported.
When he refused the demand, police said, the gunman shot him several times as 22 horrified children scrambled for cover.
But the man was able to grab the boy and drag him to his underground bunker.
And the standoff began.
Jimmy Lee Dykes, the 65-year-old man who reportedly took the boy hostage, is said to be a survivalist with anti-government views. He reportedly spent months building the tunnel on his property and was due in court over a property dispute earlier in the week. (WTF dude?)
People are sick……prayers for the boy and his family.
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New York. December 5, 1933. Rockefeller Center and RCA Building from 515 Madison Avenue.
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Separate and unequal
Public libraries in Greenville, North Carolina before integration.
Photos from The Daily Reflector (Greenville, NC)
Digital Collections, East Carolina University
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“Do one thing everyday that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt (via ourpresidents)
