Got this from the flickr pool of the US National Archives. This was created by the US Information Agency in 1953. Sixty years hence and the message is still so (shamefully) relevant. Our heroes must be restless in their graves.
The Worst Movie Moms Ever from Flavorwire on Vimeo.
Because it’s Mother’s Day and you might be forgetting how great your mom is, here’s a supercut (put together by Flavorwire) of cruel, awful, and just plain crazy moms featured in movies.
(via Neatorama)
The over one billion Catholics rejoice after a new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina (first non-European in over 1000 years), has been elected. The new pope will be called Pope Francis I.
(videos from ABC News)
Is this to be continued? Because many are arguing it doesn’t end there. But since these are the stages of love, not hate, or love and hate, or anything else, let’s be content. Love then, and be happy.
From toobusydreaming (via The Curious Brain)
Adults, don’t hurt anyone.
Kids, don’t hurt yourselves.
Don’t spend or let anyone spend New Year in a hospital!
From:: World War II Posters, compiled 1942 – 1945
Created By:: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. (03/09/1943 – 09/15/1945)
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park
From: World War I Posters, compiled 1917 – 1919
Created By:: U.S. Food Administration. Educational Division. Advertising Section. (01/15/1918 – 01/1919)
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park
The eyes clearly reveal he can’t!
This was a cover for the New York Tribune, December 24, 1905
Repository: Library of Congress, Serial and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
There are some things that don’t change much through the years, and how people don themselves with “scary” costumes is one of them.
Freddie and Frankie Liess dressed as hobos, McCook, Nebraska, 1963. (from Fritz Liess on flickr)
Leslie Dughi dressed as a witch, Tallahassee, Florida, 1972 (from State Library and Archives of Florida on flickr)
From a farm on Camp Dix, NJ 1914-1918. (from rich701 on flickr)
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