home is behind, the world ahead

An awkward 23-year-old Eastern European currently living and working in the UK

[unbotheredmuse]

why is being alive so expensive. i’m not even having a good time

[historical-nonfiction]

The Best-Named Law - Ever.

When Virginia senator William B. Spong Jr. first went to Washington in 1966, he worried that the media might mistakenly pronounce his name as “Sponge.” But he observed that his Senate colleagues included Russell B. Long (D-La.) and Hiram L. Fong (R-Hawaii).

[summers-in-hollywood]

Costume test for Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, 1955

[fortheloveofhorror]

first time make up test for freddy krueger in a nightmare on elm street

[juilletdeux]

[samdunn]

03 - Spooky #WEENZINEIIII

[historical-nonfiction]

Los Angeles Police Department trainees practice firing their newly issued revolvers. 1948.

[bertieandluv]

Michael Scott

[stagecoachjessi]

Classic Hollywood Bloopers

[izzzzzzieeeeeeeee]

And the greatest Hollywood blooper of all time:

[mermaidsandcats29]

These are WONDERFUL

[stagecoachjessi]

Two more of my favorites:

[absolutelyaddictedpoldarky]

These are great..made me smile😊💖

[darkseraphscorner]

The fact these exist are truly amazing.

In the olden days, if footage was not used in a film, it was either destroyed or erased so they could reuse the reel, because it was cheaper than storing unused film.

Google the BBC’s lost archives to find out more.

[c--well]

Positano, Italy

[ele-bee]

Mariinsky corps dancers giving their flowers to a retiring ballet master, so touching. Photos by James Bort.

[30minutememes]

[memewhore]

[thedevilsrain]

[archaeologicalnews]

Scientists find world's oldest figural tattoos on Egyptian mummies

Scientists have discovered a pair of ancient tattoos on two 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies. They are the oldest figural tattoos yet found, pushing back the advent of tattooing in Africa some 1,000 years.

The body art was found on a pair of mummies in the collection of the British Museum. The male and female were embalmed and laid to rest sometime between 3351 and 3017 BC.

A depiction of a wild bull and Barbary sheep mark the upper bicep of the male, while the female is inked with S-shaped motifs on her upper arm and shoulder. Scientists believe soot was used to create the tattoos.

The mummies were found more than a 100 years ago in Gebelein, an ancient city in southern Upper Egypt. A century later, they’re offering up new secrets. Scientists discovered the ancient tattoos with the help of advanced imaging technology, specifically infrared imaging. Read more.

[armthearmour]

A lovely engraved Dagger, German, ca. 1600, from Czerny’s International Auction House.

[wanderlusteurope]

Field of purple lupins, Iceland