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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Vintage

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I won't to be buried in a pet cemetery.
I don’t want to be buried in a pet cemetery.
 

Ancient Faces

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She looks happy & content. He just looks plain confused.  


She looks happy & content. He just looks plain confused. :) Meet William & Addie Douglas: http://www.ancientfaces.com/photo/william-addie-douglas/349996

Ancient Faces

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A proud couple and their dog pose for a studio portrait. Early 1900s.

Summer 1936-37 catalogue

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Colorful beach clothes from Myer's Spring & Summer 1936-37 catalogue.

Marian Anderson

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"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow." 

Marian Anderson, born 27 February 1897.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep has been one of the most memorable aspect of the Oscars for many years now… http://huff.to/1cRrnnh
Meryl Streep has been one of the best things about the Oscars for a while now… http://huff.to/1cRrnnh

A Torii

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A "torii" is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the profane to the sacred

www.AncientExplorers.com

Jim Lange

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Jim Lange, first host of The Dating Game, dies at 81.http://peoplem.ag/u3Fjc




R.I.P. First "Dating Game" host Jim Lange dies at 81.http://huff.to/1hW9o3q

decades of dressing up

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What was your favorite decade for dressing up to go out?

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/a-century-of-dazzling-party-dresses/

Early Gay Rights

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Early Gay rights demonstration, NYC 1970.
Early Gay rights demonstration, NYC 1970.

communism misconceptions

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Kitty Kramer, the first Kodak Girl

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"In the mid-1880s George Eastman told J. Walther Thompson that "a picture of a pretty girl sells more than a tree or a house" in magazine advertisements. Eastman's idea was a girl in a striped dress, fashionably holding a camera, and thus the Kodak girl was born.

Kodak's first camera came out in 1888. This is Kitty Kramer, the first Kodak Girl, shown using a Kodak camera in 1890.

what it was like to be close to Henry VIII

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A description of what it was like to be close to Henry VIII:

"You often boast to me that you have the king's ear and often have fun with him, freely and according to your whims. This is like having fun with tamed lions, often it is harmless, but just as often there is fear of harm. Often he roars in rage for no known reason, and suddenly the fun becomes fatal."

It was written by Thomas More, in his collection of Latin poems.


Throwback Thursday

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Rob Lowe joins one-time couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr. at their dinner table at the Governors Ball in 1989.

See more Oscars photos here:http://peoplem.ag/u1ynx

Drew Barrymore and ex-boyfriend Corey Feldman share a moment in 1989 with the late Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, at the Governors Ball. #TBT

See more Oscar photos here:http://peoplem.ag/u1yUq
http://peoplem.ag/u1yUq 

Drew Barrymore and ex-boyfriend Corey Feldman share a moment in 1989 with the late Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, at the Governors Ball. #TBT

See more #ThrowbackThursday Oscar pics here: http://peoplem.ag/u1yUq

Dirty Songs by Mozart

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Mozart wrote dirty songs, too. Consider these for your next karaoke night.

Toussaint Louverture

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How Shirley Temple helped her daughter get sober

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When the child star became a mom: Shirley Temple, America's first child star, died on February 10 from natural causes. A source recently told the National Enquirer about how Temple saved her daughter from an early grave after Lori Black got addicted to heroin
When the child star became a mom: Shirley Temple, America's first child star, pictured in the 1930s, died on February 10 from natural causes 

Addicted: Daughter Lori Black was a part of the West Coast punk rock scene of the 80s and 90s. In 1993 he joined The Melvins (right) but continued to battle a heroin addition
Addicted: Daughter Lori Black was a part of the West Coast punk rock scene of the 80s and 90s. In 1993 he joined The Melvins (right) but continued to battle a heroin addition
Shirley and her little girl: Lori was Temple's daughter with second husband Charles Black. Pictured above in June 1956 at the Black family's home in Atherton, California
Shirley and her little girl: Lori was Temple's daughter with second husband Charles Black. Pictured above in June 1956 at the Black family's home in Atherton, California

Shirley Temple was the personification of innocence as the curly-haired and dimpled star of movies like 'Heidi', but as a grown-up mother she faced much darker realities. 
Following Temple's death at the age of 85 on February 10, a source has revealed how the former child-star saved her daughter from drug addition. 
Lori Black, who was Temple's daughter with second husband Charles Black, got hooked on heroin after entering the punk rock scene of the late 80s.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568700/How-Shirley-Temple-helped-daughter-sober-Former-child-stars-daughter-Lori-got-hooked-heroin-playing-punk-band.html#ixzz2uUQUwKTA

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

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Inside the Tudor Court

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Jackie Gleason

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Today's birthday: Jackie Gleason was known as the barrel-shaped "Great One" who won television fame and riches as a blustering bus driver in "The Honeymooners" and an Oscar nomination for his film portrayal of an aging pool shark in "The Hustler."

And in celebration of Jackie Gleason's birthday, here's a picture of Gleason as Ralph Kramden and Art Carney as Ed Norton in the seminal "The Honeymooners." Photo courtesy of the Disney Channel.