Dubitante

Leo, escucho.

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This.

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In a Lonely Place (1950, dir. Nicholas Ray)

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Double-exposure photograph, staged for Century magazine in 1899, showing Nikola Tesla — born #onthisday in 1856 — seated beneath a giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nikola-tesla-in-his-laboratory

[magsam]

JOANNE WOODWARD and PAUL NEWMAN in FROM THE TERRACE (1960) dir. Mark Robson

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Pheeeeeeeeew! 🥵

[tomonota]

Escultura: memoria en mármol.

[cineemaa]

breakfast at tiffany's (1961) the french line (1954) it happened one night (1934)

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The Sun card from the summer “suit” of the Astronomia playing card deck, published in 1829.

Featuring 3 other seasonal suits, the pack was used to play two games — Conjunction and Combination — which were trumps-based, similar to Whist. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/astronomia

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Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues

Fireworks appeared in Japan sometime around 1600 and were called hanabi — a combination of the kanji “fire” and “flower”.

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Blue root, from “Erbario”, a wonderful 15th-century herbal from northern Italy. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal

Also available as a print in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal

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Steel engraving illustration by Gustave Doré for a French edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, posthumously published in 1884.⁠ ⁠ One of 700+ prints available from our online shop — https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints

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"Innamorato della Luna" (In Love with the Moon) Antonio Rubino, 1907

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Lovvvvvve

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Mongolian manuscript from the 19th century, full of charts and diagrams that astrologers (generally Buddhist monks) would use to calculate the best time to do certain things, such as depart on a trip or remove a dead body from a dwelling: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-mongolian-manual-of-astrology-and-divination

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Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman written c. 1951, featured in The Collected Letters

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— Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; "The Fear" (via lunamonchtuna)