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Oakland Tribune, California, May 6, 1923
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, January 25, 1920
The Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia, March 5, 1933
The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924
Young Jewish woman on Passover in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1984
Chuvanets woman, Russia, by Alexander Khimushin
"Klogmuters", professional mourners, in the Vilna Jewish cemetary, Lithuania, 1924
"Klogmuters" were women hired to wail at funerals, yartseits (anniversary of deaths), during the month of Elul, and if someone was sick. The task of rousing emotions fell under the purview of women – their weeping was meant to inspire the same in others. The tradition was common, under many different names, among Jewish communities of Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia and North Africa, but isn't practiced anymore.
Qashqai woman, Sanaz Namdari, Iran
Yet another sweet fact about the Armenian language: the word for "friend" is ընկեր "unker" (the stress is on the second syllable, and the first "u" is pronounced like the "a" in the word "arise"). In this word, the prefix "un" means "together," and "ker" means "eat." So, essentially, ընկեր "unker a friend" is someone you share your food with 🌻
From an educational film about puppies, 1960s
Albino squirrel sleeping
photograph: anero64 / reddit
Two-piece silk evening gown
c. 1865-1869
pink and white silk brocade evening gown made in Paris, France in the 1860s
Minnesota Historical Society
this dude in Connecticut found a marmoset just chilling in his shed and his interview with the local paper is something else
“it was one of those things” says the man who found a primate where on a continent where they’re not found, in the northeast specifically
Master post: River Place mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1984.
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Nyiragongo and Goma
The stratovolcano is within the bounds of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The entire Great Lakes region of Africa owes its current geological format to the rending apart of a continent, with a huge rift running north to south through Africa, with large faults opening and the land sinking down between them, a phenomenon known as grabens. Huge lakes such as Victoria, Albert and Kivu (on whose shores Goma grew) dot the low points of this giant crack in the landscape.
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Kilifi, Kenya.
08 August 2007.
One Dress a Day Challenge
Anything Goes December
The Taming of the Shrew / Costume for Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina Minola(?)
I'm tremendously curious about this gown. It appeared in an exhibit titled "Glamour: Famous Gowns of the Silver Screen" in Finland in 2020. FrockFlicks did a a fine writeup of the exhibit in which they dubbed this the "unicorn dress." But it doesn't appear in the actual film!
It looks like an alternate version of the wedding dress, possibly intended to make Katharina match more closely with Petruchio's outlandish multicolored costume--but that's just a guess. If it wasn't used, why was it constructed? And was it designed by Irene Sharaff, who did Elizabeth Taylor's other gowns for this film, or by Danilo Donati, who designed everyone else's costumes?
Chris Cyprus (British, b. 1971, Gorton, Manchester, England, based Lancashire, England) - Whispering Souls, 2021, Paintings: Oil
my butch mother, annie, and their friends (70s - 80s)
The Chattanooga Times, Tennessee, September 1, 1936
Cyril Connolly’s Ten Major Indications of a Civilized Community in Horizon magazine, 1946