I’m torn between loving that there was an assembly line for globes and being sad that they weren’t handmade.
Melville B. Grosvenor, Editor of the Magazine and President of the Society, admires new globes on a conveyor belt in a Chicago plant, December 1961.
Photograph by Bates Littlehales, National Geographic
USA! USA! USA!
FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AMEN Y’ALL
(I don’t know what to make first out of this. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES)
And THIS Is why I might start to cheer for the demise of print media.
awesomepeoplereading:
Benedict Cumberbatch reads, feels draft.
Will never ever hear “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” without thinking of Tracey Ullman and this skit.
City Of Strangers - Tracey Ullman Show (by adch2003)
Source: youtube.com
Oh, just a couple of cousins catching up.
Two people that make me very proud of my alma mater.
Denver Broncos quarterback and former Vol Peyton Manning greets University of Tennessee coach emeritus Pat Summitt as Peyton and his wife Ashley Manning donated $500,000 to The Pat Summitt Foundation at the Cherokee Country Club, Thursday, April 11, 2013. The foundation was formed to help in the research and fight against alzheimer’s disease.
— Knoxville News Sentinel
Even if I often root against Manning in the NFL (Hey, I’m a Pats fan), I can boast about what a credit he is to the university from which we both graduated.
Landing signal officer and assistant wear experimental ear protection aboard the USS Midway, August 1955.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Suddenly Teletubbies make a lot more sense.
With warmer weather upon us, #DisapprovingDonald reminds us about hosiery.
Swiss men playing 12-foot-long alpenhorns at a midsummer Alpine Festival in Switzerland, 1973.
Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic
If you can see this and not hear, “Riiiiiicooolaaaa” you and I are probably not in the same age bracket.
