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Happy Friday. Here’s a history of the Drug War.
Kansans are nothing if not polite.
NYC Dept of Records debuts its online photo database:
Manhattan Bridge, 1908
Oh. Oh my.
This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the U.S. (Hint.fm) h/t @nprnicole
Click through to see animated wind patterns. Very, very cool.
One of my favorite facts from McPhee’s Annals of the Former World is that pretty much all of Kansas is made up of dirt blown off mountains in Wyoming.
life:
On this day in LIFE Magazine… The Teen-Age Telephone Tie Up
Some really nice photos here gathered by Newsweek’s Maggie Keady:
(Vietnam War Captured in Never-Before-Seen Newsweek Photos From 1965)
life:
Not too long ago we had such a great time sharing your favorite LIFE Magazine covers…
So I thought to myself, why not do it again? What’s your favorite LIFE cover? Go through the archives and send your favorite cover to lifecom.tumblr@gmail.com.
What’s my favorite cover? (the person who runs this tumblr) I’d have to say this April 2, 1971 issue shot by Ralph Crane featuring an amazing photo essay on teen pregnancy.
Can’t wait to see your favorite covers.
Man, remember the days when if you got pregnant you had to stand up in class and write “I will never again forget to use birth control” 100 times?
Diagram of Share of Crew in Whale by Alexander Hare McLintock
A drawing of a sperm whale, divided into vertical sections indicating the ‘owners and overhead’ share of the profits (the back two thirds of the body) and the crew’s share (the head). The whale is further divided into the Captain’s share (16/240ths), 3 officers divide (14 parts) 6 boat steerers divide (18 parts), 20 crew divide (40 parts) and the owners and overhead section equaling 152/240ths.
I’ve long been fascinated by the whaling business model.
Incredible photos from the Battle of the Bulge, some in color, taken during Nazi Germany’s last-ditch effort to drive back Allied forces between December 1944 and January 1945. Pictured here: “An American Sherman M4 tank moves past another gun carriage that slid off icy road in the Ardennes Forest during push to halt advancing German troops.”
“War with Japan. Get to office.”
(via newsweek)
“THIS IS NOT A DRILL”
At 7:55 a.m. December 7, 1941, Japanese bombers and torpedo planes attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, catapulting the United States into World War II. In less than 2 hours, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was devastated, and more than 3,500 Americans were either killed or wounded.
