Monday, August 31, 2009

Marlon Brando

Marlon BrandoCivil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Actor Marlon Brando], 08/28/1963. ARC Identifier 542076 / Local Identifier 306-SSM-4D(109)11. Item from Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003. Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted, Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted.
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Production Date(s): 08/28/1963. Part Of: Series: Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs, compiled 1961 - 1974. Variant Control Number(s): NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-306-SSM-4D(109)11.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, President John F. KennedyPresident Kennedy and his brothers. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy. White House, Outside of Oval Office., 08/28/1963.

ARC Identifier 194238. Item from Collection JFK-WHP: White House Photographs, 12/19/1960 - 03/11/1964 Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted, Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted.
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Creator(s): President (1961-1963 : Kennedy). Office of the Naval Aide to the President. (1961 - 1963) Type(s) of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials
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John F. Kennedy Library (NLJFK), Columbia Point, Boston, MA, 02125-3398. PHONE: 617-514-1600; FAX: 617-514-1652; EMAIL: kennedy.library@nara.gov.

Production Date(s): 08/28/1963 Part Of: Series: Cecil Stoughton White House. Photographs, compiled 01/29/1961 - 12/31/1963, Variant Control Number(s): NAIL Control Number: NLK-WHP-ST-ST398363

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Entertainment: closeup view of vocalists Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.], 08/28/1963. ARC Identifier 542021 /

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Local Identifier 306-SSM-4C(53)24. Item from Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003

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Production Date(s): 08/28/1963, Part Of: Series: Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs, compiled 1961 - 1974.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Maya Aztec Calendar

Maya Aztec CalendarPictured here, is the logo for the Sun in Time program. The foreground consists of the famous Aztec calendar, while the background is an image of the solar corona taken from the ISAS/NASA Yohkoh spacecraft. The Aztec calendar incorporates a mythological and calendrical system derived from earlier Mesoamerican cultures, including the Maya.
The calendar was developed by observing the Sun's motions in the sky over a long period of time.

The Maya/Aztec calendar, which is extremely accurate, began on August 13, 3114 B.C.E1 or 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u in the Mayan language. The Maya concept of time was of circles within circles which only appeared to be linear. The calendar stone shows that we are in the fifth creation, with the four previously destroyed ones surrounding the central figure. The end of the fifth creation of the Maya calendar is on December 23, 2012 of the Current Era (C.E.2).

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer as a young man by Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl (1794–1887)

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Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer From a Painting by F. von Lenbach (13 December 1836 – 6 May 1904) .

Title: The wisdom of life: and other essays. Universal classics library. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer. Translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, Ernest Belfort Bax. Publisher: M. W. Dunne, 1901, Original from Harvard University. Digitized: Apr 30, 2008. Length: 332 pages
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Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788, died in 1860.* His father, Heinrich Schopenhauer, was a wealthy merchant of Dantzic, of strong political opinions, cosmopolitan interests, and independence of thought. His mother was Johanna Schopenhauer, a graceful and refined lady of literary instincts and ambitions, who, after her husband's death, attained to some degree of success as an authoress. From the standpoint of heredity Schopenhauer was unfortunate on the father's side, as there were in the fanner strong tendencies to mental alienation that appeared in the son in the form of eccentricities, groundless fears, and suspiciousness.

On his mother's side he also suffered in environment, for according to Schopenhauer's testimony, her method of dealing with him was unsympathetic. It must be granted that he was not an easy individual to deal with. His mother's butterfly vanity and her selfishness, her method of snubbing, mortifying, and disparaging her son were unfortunate and injurious in their influence. She did not seem to have the true mother instinct of love which Schopenhauer sadly needed. While Kant could recall the tender solicitude and pious influence of a godly and deeply affectionate mother molding his whole life, Schopenhauer could accuse his mother of frivolity and heartlessness. Not that she was positively cruel, but simply lacking in regard for her son.

The Essays of Schopenhauer comprised in this volume are well designated by the title which specially pertains to the first Essay. It will be noticed that the earlier essays are predominantly theoretical or metaphysical, the later practical or ethical. Hence we have in these Essays Schopenhauer's views upon a number of important problems in Metaphysics and Ethics, valuable, as an introduction to his more abstract expositions, to the specialist in philosophy, and yet presented in such a manner as to appeal to the general reader and student of literature.

Among philosophical writers Schopenhauer enjoys the advantage of standing alone. He cannot be classified. He thus escapes being lost in the crowd. It is indeed true that a great deal of what he writes is taken from his predecessors. It is, however, borrowed, not stolen. It is in each case acknowledged and accredited to the original authors, and while it is adopted by Schopenhauer it is so assimilated and transmuted as to become his own, bearing his image and superscription.

He also possesses the advantage of a distinctive and polished literary style. He has a highly developed artistic sense and in accordance with this selects and arranges his material in a form of expression pleasing to his readers. Although a recluse and given to the habit of talking to himself, when he writes he talks to his reader frankly and entertainingly. While he does not even pretend to practice what he preaches in regard to ethical matters, it will be found that his views on the writing of literature are practiced by himself. For instance, note the advice to writers upon the choice of a title. How well has he succeeded in this. Each of his writings has a title appropriate, striking, suggestive, illuminating.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard High Line (New York City)

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard High Line (New York City)

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard High Line (New York City)
A computer, never understood by the Instrumentality, which has reached the status of a God, able to foretell the future. It can only be reached walking a ruined processional highway leading into the clouds, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard, closed to mankind for 10,000 years.

The High Line is a 1.45-mile section of a elevated freight railroad, along the lower west side of Manhattan, which has been planted as a greenway. The High Line runs from the 34th Street rail yard, near the Javits Convention Center, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to Gansevoort Street in the West Village.
The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central Railroad to eliminate the fatal accidents that occurred along the street-level right-of-way and to offer direct warehouse-to-freight car service. It was in active use until 1980.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Bison Paleolithic Altamira Cave Art

Bison Paleolithic Altamira Cave ArtOne of the bison on the ceiling Altamira,representing the final stage of polychrome art in which four shades of color are used. After Breuil.

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Title: Men of the old stone age: their environment, life and art. Hitchcock lectures of the University of California, Hitchcock lectures. Author: Henry Fairfield Osborn Edition 2. Publisher: C. Scribner, 1915. Original from the University of California, Digitized: Feb 20, 2007. Length: 545 pages

Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands. It is located near the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain.

Lines engraved with flint, the surface of the limestone having been previously prepared by the thinning or scraping of the borders (raelage) to heighten the relief of the drawing; then a very strong contour is laid down in black, and this may be followed by a further contour line in red (the use of black and red is very ancient); an ochreous brown color is mixed in, conforming well with what we know to be the tints of the hairy portions of the bison.

Thus gradually a complete polychrome fresco art develops. The final stage of this art follows, in which the filling out of various tones of color requires the use of black, brown, red, and yellowish shades. The underlying or preliminary engraving now begins to recede, being retained only for the tracing in of the final details of the hair, the eyes, the horns, and the hoofs

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Winged Mercury Caduceus

Winged Mercury CaduceusMercury by Giambologna (1529-1608 Flemish) Bronze Bargello National Museum, Florence, Italy, Renaissance sculpture, WINGED MERCURY. In the National Museum, Floreno

Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna (1529 - August 13, 1608), was a sculptor, known for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.
Image from Title: Language lessons from literature, Book 1. Webster-Cooley language series Language Lessons from Literature, Alice Woodworth Cooley, Authors: Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1903

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In the far-off days when the gods dwelt among men, it was necessary that they should have some one to act as their agent and to be their messenger. On account of his special fitness, Mercury was chosen. For it is said that Mercury, who was the patron god of merchants, was very shrewd in making a bargain. Indeed, there were few men who could beat this youth in making a trade, so that the gods fared very well in their dealing with men. Whenever he was sent far away as a messenger, he put on his winged cap and bound on his winged sandals. Then taking the magic wand, which Apollo had given him, and throwing over his shoulders the cloak which made him invisible, he flew like the wind to do his errand.

Mercury did not have to work all the time; and one day, wandering by the seashore, his sandal struck a shell. It gave out a pretty sound. Then Mercury thought that if he could put strings upon it, he could draw from it sweet music. This he did, and he called the beautiful instrument a lyre. This lyre he gave to Apollo in exchange for the caduceus, or magic wand.

Mercury's business was not all with mortals on earth; sometimes his errands took him to the dark regions under the earth. It was Mercm-y who went to Pluto's realm to bring back to Ceres her daughter Proserpina. And it was he who guided the worn-out souls of men through the dark parts of Hades, past the gates of the sun, and out into the flowery meads of asphodel.

THE CADUCEUS, OR THE MAGIC WAND.

Apollo, the half brother of Mercury, was the god of light and music. He, too, had invented a stringed musical instrument, and he felt that Mercury's lyre should belong to him. So one day, after Mercury had been playing some mischievous pranks that greatly annoyed him and had merrily pleaded innocence, Apollo said : —

" I forgive you. In token of our friendship, let us exchange gifts. I will give you my magic wand, and you give me your lyre. But you must promise to give up with it the power to move men by sweet sounds. I, in turn, will yield to you the power that lies in this magic wand. It can bring harmony and peace out of discord and strife. Wherever animals or people are quarreling, you need only to cast this wand before them, and quarrels will cease."

So the exchange was made, and ever after Apollo carried the lyre, or harp, — the emblem of music; and Mercury carried the caduceus, or magic wand, — the emblem of friendship and peace.

One day Mercury threw the wand on the ground where two snakes were fighting. They at once twined lovingly about it. And ever after Mercury kept them there in token of the power of the wand.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Milano030619-N-7027P-001 The Arabian Gulf (Jun. 19, 2003) -- Actress Alyssa Milano speaks to crew members during a visit aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68) for a United Services Organization (USO) show. Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Sandra Palumbo. (RELEASED)

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Chevrolet Volt

Chevrolet VoltChevrolet Volt photographed at the 2009 Washington DC Auto Show. 02/04/09 Permission: All Rights Released
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Supermarine Spitfire F Mk XIIs

Supermarine Spitfire F Mk XIIsSupermarine Spitfire F Mk XIIs of 41 Squadron in Starboard echelon. Photograph Imperial War Museum CH 12754.

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force through the Second World War.
It was produced in greater numbers than any other Allied fighter design.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

H.M.S. Pinafore Souvenir Programme

H.M.S. Pinafore Souvenir ProgrammeThis image is from a D'Oyly Carte Opera Company souvenir programme, dated 23 January 1886, during the original a production of The Mikado at the Savoy Theatre in London.
This souvenir includes pages with scenes from the earlier Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including this one from H.M.S. Pinafore featuring Sir Joseph Porter, his "sisters, cousins and aunts", Captain Corcoran and the midshipmite.

Source: Scan provided by Simon Moss, www.c20th.com. Date published: 23 January 1886

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group

Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter GroupDigital ID: ppmsca 13259 Source: digital file from original photograph
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-13259 (digital file from original neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

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TITLE: [Photograph of several Tuskegee airmen at Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945], CALL NUMBER: LC-F9-02-4503-319-04 [item] [P&P]. LOT 12447-1 [item] (corresponding print). REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-13259 (digital file from original neg.). RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: Photograph shows several Tuskegee airmen. Front row, left to right: unidentified airman; Jimmie D. Wheeler (with goggles); Emile G. Clifton (cloth cap) San Francisco, CA, Class 44-B. Standing left to right: Ronald W. Reeves (cloth cap) Washington, DC, Class 44-G; Hiram Mann (leather cap); Joseph L. "Joe" Chineworth (wheel cap) Memphis, TN, Class 44-E; Elwood T. Driver? Los Angeles, CA, Class 44-A; Edward "Ed" Thomas (partial view); Woodrow W. Crockett (wheel cap); at Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. (Source: Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.)

MEDIUM: 1 negative : film. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [1945 March]. CREATOR: Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988, photographer.

NOTES: Title devised by Library staff. Also available as contact sheet in LOT 12447-1. Forms part of: Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress).

PART OF: Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988. 332nd Fighter Group at air base in southern Italy

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original photograph) ppmsca 13259 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.13259. CONTROL #: 2007675064

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Firemen Fight Car Fire

Firemen Fight Car Fire

Firemen Fight Car Fire
New York City Firemen Fight Car Fire on Manhattan's upper westside at 96th street and Broadway. Taken August 7th, 2009.

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Hotel Chelsea New York City

Hotel Chelsea

Hotel Chelsea
Hotel Chelsea 222 W 23rd St. New York, NY 10011, is a well known residence for artists, musicians and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan.

Built in 1883, the Chelsea has housed writers, musicians, artists, and actors. Notable long-term residents include Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious and people associated with Andy Warhol's Factory. Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl
Marilyn Monroe Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker,

Cropped screenshot of Marilyn Monroe in the trailer for the film The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States without a copyright notice.

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Cropped screenshot of Marilyn Monroe from the trailer for the film Some Like It Hot. (1959)

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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Poster from the 1875 premiere of Carmen

Poster from the 1875 premiere of CarmenCarmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. Poster from the 1875 premiere of Carmen.

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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Medal of Honor

Medal of HonorMedals Of Honor from left to right, the Army, Navy, and Air Force medals
Awarded for: "Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against any enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party."

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