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@stoertebaker / stoertebaker.tumblr.com

No special theme for this blog anymore but originally it started out to collect pieces of the LGBTQ+ history. Anyway now it's a dumpster for information & I love to chat. Very special interest blogs about medicine in art history and for whatever my current hyperfixation is [rn it's Gorillaz] Instagram @abrakadabratheresia
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oldpaintings

Garnier Opera House, Paris - The Grand Staircase, 1877 by Louis Béroud (French, 1852–1930)

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kozacy
In the heat of battle, photographer Horace Bristol captured one of the most unique and erotic photos of WWII.
Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.
“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”
“And well, there was his butt, and I had a camera. I mean I AM a historian.”
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beggars-opera

It’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s birthday! Let’s all listen to some sweet electric guitar riffs and thank the Godmother of Rock and Roll for making it happen.

March 20, 1915 - October 9, 1973

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omgthatdress

I have absolutely no idea how one of the Try Guys got on the Oscars red carpet, but Eugene Lee Yang sure as hell is serving it tonight.

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wolvins

laura ernwein for vogue hong kong, "armour of couture". march 2022

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antinousmondragone

Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994 by Nobuyoshi Araki and Nan Goldin

Mayumi and Nao at home, Kee w/ a cigarette, Takaho Inoue at Kæramel, Pablo and Hikaru Honda at home, Kanako at Le Petit Chateau, Tomoyuki in the Mirror, Deborah at home (ph. Nan Goldin)
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spinejackel
Anonymous asked:

What are dead man walking tornadoes? :O

spinejackel answered:

it’s a multi-vortex tornado. i dont remember the tribe it originates from (i think it was cherokee), but there’s a native american legend…? saying? that goes “if you see a man in a tornado, you are about to die.”

the most infamous shot of a dead man walking tornado hit jarrell, texas in 1997

it did so much damage to the town it caused the scale that tornados are measured by, the fijita scale, undergo revisions, and it made anchoring buildings in the tornado alley region pretty much mandatory. (it took the entire town off the map. only those who had taken shelter outside of the town or in underground bunkers survived.)

two more examples of dead man walking tornadoes looking like a person are a tornado from 2011 that hit cullman, alabama

and a tornado from 1975 that hit xenia, ohio

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elecktrum

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, that's terrifying on a whole new level.

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