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escapekit: Like Bogota-based graphic designer and...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:29 -0400

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Bogota-based graphic designer and illustrator Jaime Calderón has re-imagined the iconic thumb-up symbol with the hands of well-known superheroes.

ryandonato: Christian Robert-Tissot, Void Resonnates at times

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:32:15 -0400

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Christian Robert-Tissot, Void

Resonnates at times

muirin007: willowclove: Miss Sanderson and the womanly art...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:31:38 -0400

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Miss Sanderson and the womanly art of parasol self defence

This is everything I have ever wanted in a photo set ever.

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Nix Nugent ‘Ophelia’ by Nix Nugent

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:44:34 -0400

Nix Nugent ‘Ophelia’ by Nix Nugent

Gloria by Nix Nugent

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:44:19 -0400

Gloria by Nix Nugent

peashooter85: The Philadelphia Derringer, In 1806 a gunsmith...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:37 -0400

peashooter85:

The Philadelphia Derringer,

In 1806 a gunsmith named Henry Deringer settled in Philadelphia where he made a living producing military muskets for the US Army. In 1825 he invented a small large caliber pistol (around .45 - .50 caliber) that was small enough to be carried in a pocket. The Philadelphia Derringer (somehow another “R” was added to the name) became a big hit for its size and concealability. It was especially a popular weapon for gamblers, who could produce the small pistol at a moments notice in case of a poker game gone bad. Early versions were flintlock but most were made with the more reliable percussionlock system.

Eventually the Philadelphia Derringer became so popular that hundreds of small gunsmiths, workshops, and factories all over the United States produced copies. In the US they became the most popular pocket pistol. In Europe they were less popular as boxlock and muff pistols dominated the European market. Eventually the word “derringer” became a colloquialism for any small pocket pistol. I often hear people today use the term to describe modern subcompact automatic pistols. While the Philadelphia Derringer’s legacy is of scoundrels, riverboat gamblers, and thieves, it also has the stigma of being the pistol of assassins. On April 14th 1865 the notorious Confederate John Wilkes Booth mortally wounded President Abraham Lincoln with a point blank shot to the head. Booth’s weapon of choice was a Philadelphia Derringer. Booth’s derringer (pictured above) is currently on display at the Ford’s Theater Museum.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 12:26:12 -0400

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#f4f #food #picoftheday #instagood #instagram #browneyes...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:22:18 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 03:52:26 -0400

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Sat, 18 May 2013 18:23:51 -0400

“Let Every Pansy Bloom” banner at the San Francisco Gay Freedom...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:32:02 -0400

“Let Every Pansy Bloom” banner at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day pride parade. June 25, 1978.

wrdbnr: Love=Lust I am SOoooo glad I know know the diff...

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:35:37 -0400

wrdbnr:

Love=Lust

I am SOoooo glad I know know the diff betwixt love n lust

vintagegal: The Wizard of Oz (1939) 🌈

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:32:07 -0400

vintagegal:

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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#blonde #browneyes #hackney #f4f #chilling #bugeyes #picoftheday...

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:29:55 -0400

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Fri, 10 May 2013 14:05:43 -0400

"A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:44:07 -0400

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A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly:

“Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.”

The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening.

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- “Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit”, by Lindy West (at jezebel.com)

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itcouldbeamazing: Charlotte Brontë’s tiny poem - 1829 - The...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:56:29 -0400

itcouldbeamazing:

Charlotte Brontë’s tiny poem - 1829

- The Brontë sisters often wrote their works in a minuscule handwriting on whatever scraps of paper they could find. A magnifying glass is often required to read the texts. This early poem from a 13-year-old Charlotte was scrawled on a three-inch square paper. Scholars believe the miniature handwriting was a way for the sisters to hide their work from prying eyes and due to the expense of paper at that time. Others suggest it’s the scale that the sisters’ beloved toy soldiers would have written in, since the playthings were an integral part of their childhood fantasy world that inspired their earliest works. -

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crookedindifference: First African-American Woman in Space The...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:56:58 -0400

crookedindifference:

First African-American Woman in Space

The first African-American woman in space, Dr. Mae C. Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama but considers Chicago, Illinois her hometown. She received a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering (and completed the requirements for a Bachelor in African and Afro-American studies) at Stanford University in 1977. Dr. Jemison also received a Doctorate degree in medicine from Cornell University in 1981. After medical school she did post graduate medical training at the Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center. As an area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa, she managed the health care delivery system for U.S. Peace Corps and U.S. Embassy personnel. Jemison’s background includes work in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and reproductive biology. She also developed and participated in research projects on the Hepatitis B vaccine and rabies.

Jemison was a General Practitioner and attending graduate Engineering classes in Los Angeles when she was named an astronaut candidate in 1987. She flew her first flight as a science mission specialist on STS-47, Spacelab-J, in September 1992. She was co-investigator for the Bone Cell Research Experiment on that mission. In completing her first space flight, Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes and 23 seconds in space. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993. In 1994, she founded and began a term as chair of The Earth We Share (TEWS), an annual international science camp where students, aged 12 to 16, work together to solve current global dilemmas. From 1995- 2002 she was a professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College. She is currently director of the Jemison Institute for Advancing Technology in developing countries. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and several corporate boards of directors on the Texas Governor’s State Council for Science and Biotechnology Development. Dr. Jemison published her memoirs, Find Where DE:the Wind Goes:Moments from My Life in 2001. She currently resides in Houston, Texas.