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Gen X, (she/her/hers), geek, eclectic taste, not looking for romance or sex. Proud member of the group blog @cheesewhizexpress. Secondary blog @lostunicorntricycle (mostly reblogs from those I follow). dm for credit or removal. Tags contain sources. Operational archive. Wishing you health and peace. An introvert who talks to you, one post at a time.

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Hall and stained glass windows inside Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, completed in 1248.

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Calvin and Hobbes

By Bill Watterson

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So many . . . wild lupin . . .

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Print ad for Olivetti Lettera 22. Zodiac 1957: Issue 1.

Internet Archive

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On February 8th, 1964, with "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen under FBI investigation for containing obscene lyrics, the song's publishers offered $1,000 to anyone who could definitively distinguish the dirty words.

The Kingsmen - Louie Louie, 1963

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Rocky, 1976

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Bean, 1997

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a small fortune

of teasel

and butterflies

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The Great Outdoors, 1988

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Studio portrait of Jimmie Sequint, Northern Shoshone, Pocatello, Idaho, ca. 1897

Photographer: Benedicte Wrensted

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Pinocchio, 1940

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R.E.M. at Walter's BBQ – the subject of their song "Walter's Theme" – in their hometown, Athens, Georgia in 1984.

Photographer: Laura Levine

"My memory is foggy but my guess is that we had spent the whole day shooting around Athens and they were hungry. It wasn't a set up. We were actually eating there. Michael was a vegetarian, so that is probably my plate of food he has, we just put it there. I was such good friends with the band that my approach was very documentary with them. They were still small at the time: on IRS, still driving in their van and sleeping on floors, but I knew they were on their way to being very successful." -Laura Levine

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Metropolis, 1927

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A child with prosthetic legs, in the United Kingdom in 1890.

[image description: A child with prosthetic legs and braces made by James Gillingham poses for their photograph in the United Kingdom in 1890. End ID]

Victorian prosthetics made by James Gillingham (1839–1924).

Photographer: James Gillingham

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Alice Roberts dancing with Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box, 1929.