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With the exception of a very few outstanding re-blogs, each image posted here was found by me and is in my possession, and therefore is not sourced from the digital world.
Please share w/attribution. Thanks.
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the blog
the reblog
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FUCKYEAHHOMININES (Australopithecus afarensis, 11.30.1974)
Lucy (also given a second (Amharic) name: ድንቅነሽ dinqineš, “you are wonderful”[2]) is the common name of AL 288-1, the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered on November 30, 1974 by the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE; director: Maurice Taieb, co-directors: Donald Johanson and Yves Coppens) in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago.(…)
(…)Johanson and his colleague Tim White, a Californian born paleoanthropologist, placed Australopithecus afarensis as the last ancestor common to humans and chimpanzees living from 3.9 to 3 million years ago. Although fossils closer to the chimpanzee/human common ancestor have been recovered since the early 1970s, Lucy remains a treasure among anthropologists studying human origins. The fragmentary nature of the older fossils furthermore deter confident conclusions as to the degree of bipedality or their relation to true hominines.
via: The Free Dictionary
Thank you, AL 288-1, for the huge fucking impression you made on me in 1982.
fuckyeahhominines
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] Eddie James, “Son House”(1902-1988)-John The Revelator See also:A.A. Bondy - John the Revelator
Live at the Waldron 8/12/08, Bloomington, IN
Here are the lyrics for Son House’s 1965 recording version, which explicitly reference three theologically important events: the Fall of Man, the Passion of Christ, and the Resurrection.thank you, benhasten
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A.A. Bondy - John the Revelator
Live at the Waldron 8/12/08, Bloomington, IN
makes me homesick.
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Mustangs are a mythic symbol of freedom, heroism, romance, and limitless possibilities, as well as the vanishing West. Along with that fantasy, wild horses embody some of the intractable complexities and contradictions of modern American life.
In 1900, two million wild horses roamed the still largely unfenced American West. In the hundred years since, a growing human population’s expanding urbanization has eaten up much of the range. Less than 30,000 wild horses are squeezed onto public lands in ten western states.
Today, the Bureau of Land Management spends 40 million dollars annually caring for wild horses. Most visible are the gathers or roundups performed by contractors who use helicopters to drive horses into a trap to be culled. Mustangs can be adopted by the public, but much of the BLM’s funding is spent caring for the once wild horses for the rest of their lives in long-term facilities.
Melissa Farlow, photographer
Melissa Farlow and Mustangs… FTW.
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One of my favorite photos of vintage New York City. This is Times Square, circa 1950.
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i love pictures like this.
Looks like Kodachrome. Awesome
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Mid-fifties red border Kodachrome
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“Jane on top of the pyramid”
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I have already read Three Cups Of Tea. If you are a typical Tumblr Loser, this book might change your life. srlsy. AND IT”S FREE. You do read, don’t you?
I reckon I’ll get A Confederacy Of Dunces
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credit: Robert P. Jordan
Plott hund .
Powerful and well-muscled, the Plott brings big game such as bear or boar to bay or tree with its determination, endurance and courage. Today, the Plott – who is the state dog of North Carolina – is also used for coonhunting in addition to his more traditional duties. The breed’s smooth, glossy coat can be any shade of brindle (a streaked or striped pattern of dark hair imposed on a lighter background), solid black or have a saddle or markings.
A Look Back
In 1750, the two young Plott brothers left Germany and immigrated to America with five Hanoverian Hounds. One brother died during the voyage, but the other settled in North Carolina, raised a family and bred his dogs. Over the next 200 years, the Plott descendents were mountain men who used their dogs to hunt bear and boar. The dogs became known by the family name and were referred to as the Plotts’ hounds.
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I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a wall of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
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