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Lo que golpea al ojo y lo captura.

[heaveninawildflower]

1917 home decoration book published by Star Peerless Wall Paper Mills containing ideas for room decoration and samples of ‘Black Cat Wall Papers.’

Building Technology Heritage Library 

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GORGO (1961)

[elhieroglyph]

Memento Mori Enamel Skull Snake Ring Circa 1800’s

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Belgium’s Atomium Cutaway, Brussels

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“Good old future” by Tobias Stierli

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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

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[vintagegeekculture]

“Blackstar” (1981), a short-lived FIlmation series that is best remembered as being the “first draft” of the concept that would later be perfected in Filmation’s “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” two years later, and even used most of the same voice cast. It was much more “pure” Sword and Sorcery than the later He-Man would be. 

The hero, earthman astronaut turned swordsman John Blackstar, was originally going to be a black hero, but this was deemed too radical for 1981, and he was instead made racially ambiguous (because of his similarity to Filmation’s hero Bravestarr, many fans speculate that John Blackstar is an American Indian). Like David Hasselhoff, Blackstar far was more successful overseas; Americans barely remember this series, but for many Europeans, Blackstar was a well-remembered part of their childhoods. 

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c.öhler l911 (by janwillemsen)

[architectureofdoom]

Phone/speaking booth in the post office of Het Schip housing complex, Amsterdam, Michel de Klerk, 1917-21. View this on the map

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[scificovers]

Worlds of If, September 1963. Cover by Paul E. Wenzel.

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[sovietpostcards]

Vintage Soviet wind-up toy from the 1980s

[yesterdaysprint]

The Sphere, London, January 7, 1939

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[nemfrog]

Saturn and moons.  Carte astronomique de l'Univers. 1878. Map detail. Rumsey.