COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

1/29/2014


11h
“Patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation All the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.” 
- Mark Twain 



 

  • Jan 21
    Construction at Mount Rushmore, 1932  




     Detective Allan Pinkerton on horseback, 1862






  • Jan 20
    Captain Sir Richard Burton, English explorer. Burton had a scar on each cheek from a javelin that impaled his face.




  • Jan 19
    Bookstore in London ruined by an air raid, 1940.





    • Jan 18
    Daniel Freeman, the first person to acquire land under the Homestead Act in Beatrice, Nebraska, 1863.



    Jan 18 A family traveling by wagon and seeking a homestead, 1868.



     
    Jan 18
    Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923






     
    Jan 17
    Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein Circa, 1930.




  • Jan 16
    Black Panthers lobby State Legislators for Gun Rights, 1967.




  • Jan 16
    Conservationist Carl Akeley and leopard that attacked him,1896. Akeley killed the leopard with his bare hands.



    • Jan 15
    A Polish WW2 survivor hitting a skinhead with her purse. Sweden, 1985.



  • Jan 13
    Henry Ford's design for a modified Model T called the "Universal Car"...1918.




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    Jan 9
    June 1914, arrest of Gavrilo Princip after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.




    A checkpoint set up by an armed border patrol at Yreka, CA the proposed capitol of the state of Jefferson, c. 1940.





  • Jan 7
    Recovery of E.H. Barry by a helicopter after the plane was forced to ditch after launching from USS Block Island,1953




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     Radio Pictures Chorus Girls (colorized), 1938




  • Jan 5
    First airplane flown from a ship: Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher biplane from USS Birmingham. 14 Nov. 1910



  • Che Guevara and Fidel Castro playing golf to mock Eisenhower, 1962





    • Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923






  • Frozen German soldier's corpse placed in a pose by Russian forces, Eastern Front, WWII, 1942




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    The Liberation of Paris, August 26, 1944



    The , 1940-41.




  • Bashful Soldier and Showgirls backstage, Boston Massachusetts, 1940.



  • FDR at private White House "Caesar" toga party for his 52nd birthday, January 1934 - An apt metaphor?




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    Pacific Southwest Airlines Stewardesses, 1972. Has the quality of air travel declined?  









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