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

2/20/2015

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Castro tosses a peanut to an elephant at the Bronx Zoo.
Castro talks to reporters about his successful Cuban revolution to oust dictator Batista, at a press conference in his suite at the Hotel New Yorker.
Image: I.C. Rapoport/Getty Images
Wearing only underwear, U.S. Army Pvt. Elvis Presly
The Chicago Board of Trade.
Image: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
1949: Chicago by Stanley Kubrick
office of a Chicago lingerie company
1911
The Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan (1880-1944), poses solemnly for his portrait, taken in 1911 shortly after his accession
1911
A merchant at the Samarkand market displays silk, cotton and wool fabrics as well as a few traditional carpets.
1907-1915
Prokudin-Gorksii captures the traditional dress, jewelry and hairstyle of an Uzbek woman standing on a richly decorated carpet at the entrance to a yurt, a portable tent used for housing by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. After conquering Turkestan in the mid-1800s, the Russian government exerted strong pressure on the nomadic peoples to settle permanently in villages, towns and cities.
Image: Prokudin-Gorskii / Library of Congress>
1953: Motorcyclists pull skiers racing across icy tracks
1938: Tips for Single Women
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Nov. 19, 1910
A tall policeman leads a short suffragette away by her arm. Many suffragettes were imprisoned and force-fed during their struggle to win the vote.
Image: Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images
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c. 1918
American suffragettes Elizabeth Smart, Elizabeth Glass, Mrs. A. Dugan and Catherine McKeon, of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association, pose with rifles and a flag.
Image: FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Living the Havana High Life
1946
Socialite (debutante) Aileen Johnson Menocal eating breakfast in bed. The painting above her is supposedly her mother painted as the Madonna.
Image: Nina Leen/TimeLife Pictures/Getty Images
 

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