Fascination

Inspiring, insightful, interesting, or otherwise fascinating material that everyone should see!

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A cross section of pictures relating directly or indirectly to the shooting of Michael Brown and the consequent mass protests that have taken place.

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A comic depicting an element of feminism that can be difficult for men to see and appreciate.

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Variety of political and historical images, including the Kaiser's view on Hitler, bodies from WWI unearthed in Italy, and a picture of corporate currency for lumber workers.

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Historical images with some political content, including pictures of 19th century Paris streets and an image of German soldiers viewing films of the Holocaust following the war. 

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Variety of political images, including The Deserter, an anti-war WWI cartoon.

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Transgender rights in Europe.

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Political stuff, including Israel/Palestine.

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Mostly Egyptian graffiti against the military regime, along with one random bit at the end.

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Speaks for itself.

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Some anti-Japanese WWII propaganda for you, complete with racism and nationalism.

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Decorative handgun, not sure what the Arabic says though.

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King George V trying to ignore a beggar.

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How Much Water Actually Goes Into Making A Bottle Of Water? By Thomas Andrew Gustafson

Environmental activists have long claimed that bottled water is wasteful. Usually, they point to the roughly 50 billion (mostly plastic) bottles we throw away every year.

The International Bottled Water Association, ever sensitive to criticism that it’s wasting precious resources, has commissioned its first ever study to figure out how much water goes into producing one liter. The results, released this month, show that for North American companies, it takes 1.39 liters to make one liter of water.

That’s less than the global averages of a liter of soda, which requires 2.02 liters of water. A liter of beer, meanwhile, needs 4 liters of water, wine demands 4.74 liters. Hard alcohol, it turns out, is the greediest, guzzling 34.55 liters of water for every liter.

This, the bottled water industry says, is evidence that its product isn’t so bad. “Bottled water products are extremely efficient in terms of water use compared to some other packaged beverages,” says Chris Hogan, spokesman for the International Bottled Water Association.

But water activists say the IBWA study highlights a problem throughout the beverage industry: Few companies take the whole water-use picture into account when calculating their water use. Just as companies are beginning to calculate their carbon footprint, they also need to analyze their water footprints to find opportunities for conservation.

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1800s Week!

Unknown British Artist

Portrait of Paul Cuffe/Cuffee

England (c. 1880)

oil on canvas, 64.1 x 52.1 cm.

Stuart P. Feld collection, NY, NY

The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Paul Cuffee (1759-1817) was a man of Aquinnah Wampanoag and West African Ashanti descent, Quaker businessman, ship owner, navigator, abolitionist and also founded the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts. He was the founder of the Friendly Society of Sierra Leone, and organized expeditions that facilitated emigration of free Blacks from the United States to Sierra Leone and the newly independent Haiti.

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Bus jokes, oooooh yeah.

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