Historical Incongruities:

Student of Human History and all Its Complexities. Student Of Living Humans and Their Complexities, including my Own.

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[eartharchives]

The La Brea Tar Pits have been trapping animals for millennia. Paleontologists are still uncovering what lies beneath the ooze

For tens of thousands of years, the La Brea Tar Pits have trapped and preserved Ice Age giants — and scientists are still uncovering the secrets buried beneath the asphalt. Image credit: Michael Christopher Brown

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/la-brea-tar-pits-sucking-visitors-millennia-paleontologits-still-finding-out-what-lies-within-ooze-180988404/

[oldpaintings]

The Old Shepherds Chief Mourner, c.1837 by Edwin Landseer (English, 1802--1873)

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[the-evil-clergyman]

Owl on Maple Branch Under Full Moon by Utagawa Hiroshige (1832-33)

[oldpaintings]

The Colosseum on a Monnlit Night, c.1830 by Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789–1869)

[classicalcanvas]

Cypresses and Two Women (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

[richardstabbert]

Sculptor James Lee Hansen carves his 1941 statue "The Young Lincoln".

[richardstabbert]

We'wha, a Two-Spirit of Zuñi (between 1871 and 1896) Photographer: John K. Hillers, 1843-1925

[richardstabbert]

Rudolf Nureyev as the Faun in Ken Russell's 'Valentino' (1977)

[richardstabbert]

Nijinsky as Faun, 1912

[sacredwhores]

Jocelyne Saab - Palestinian Women (1974)

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[henk-heijmans]

Sigourney Weaver, 1995 - by Helmut Newton (1920 – 2004), German/Australian

[nobletruths]

Male Nude Study | Photo by George Platt Lynes | 1954

[langoaurelian]

"Portrait of a Man" 1970 ~ George Valentine Dureau (New Orleans, 1930-2014)