Survival Of The Fittest

music loving, serial killer digging, old movie admiring type of girl

[deforest]

Diana Ross photographed by Wallace Seawell, 1969

[danubedogs]

November 3rd, 1957  On this day exactly 60 years ago, the Soviet Space Program sent the Sputnik II into orbit. Inside was the first astronaut in history, an 11lb street dog named Laika. She fit all their requirements: docile, quiet, intelligent, and photogenic. She became the first cosmonaut to orbit the earth, but died in within hours of launch from overheating and stress. Her sacrifice proved that living things could survive the launch and orbit around the earth, and led to the beginning of the human-test missions into space.

The scientists kissed her nose when they bade her farewell, asking for forgiveness, as they knew she would never return.

[gone-by]

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

[meganmonroes]

Brigitte Bardot in the 1950s.

[meganmonroes]

Sharon Tate in the 1960s.

[pinupgirlsart]

Jayne Mansfield

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[amoralto]

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr dance on a fake helipad filming A Hard Day’s Night on the Thornbury Fields, Isleworth, London. (April 23rd, 1964)

[thebeatlesphotovault]

The Beatles having a shave for the benefit of the photographer 1964

[xushima]

René Magritte, Le coup au coeur (The blow to the heart), 1952

[evokesart]

René Magritte - The Great War, 1964 

[xaneon]

Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, 1955.

[karinacupcake]

[marilyn-monroe-collection]

Marilyn, Arthur Miller and Isidore Miller in 1957.

[hqmarilyn]

Photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine, 1953.

[meganmonroes]

Sharon Tate in the 1960s.

[12305fifthhelenadrive]

Marilyn Monroe Photoblog : My daily personal selection of rare photos of Marilyn Monroe.