slate has a slideshow of unusual gymnastics photos. see more share this......
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a from slate born in 1915 hiroshi hamaya began his career studying aerial photography and started his yukiguni snow land series which focused on farming practices and daily life in the remote mountains of niigata prefecture in 1940 then followed it with his ura nihon japans back coast series in 1954. more......
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from slate.com todays pictures totally eclipsed in case you were wondering why this series of fairly random posts today im working out some of the handmade fixes i had to do to a couple php files in wordpress. turns out some of the problems i was having were known bugs that will be addressed in the next release. happily the problems are welldocumented on the wordpress site and i was able to imple...
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slate.com has a nice gallery of hiroshi hamaya photographs to accompany a post about his retrospective book fifty years of photography 19301981. born in 1915 hiroshi hamaya began his career studying aerial photography and started his yukiguni snow land series which focused on farming practices and daily life in the remote mountains of niigata prefecture in 1940 then followed it with his ura nihon...
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on june 25 slate ran a series of photos taken during the korean war. pretty good stuff even if the scare dance is a bit surreal. ht to reader sha rethis.... ..
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met fotos die niet vaak vertoond zijn. hier te vinden.......
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my mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort happiness and being. i may sometimes forget the words but i always remember the tune. graycie harmon for more of zena koos photography visit slate.com......
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the chernobyl meltdown happened on this day in 1986. on 26 april 1986 at 012340 a.m. utc3 reactor number four at the chernobyl nuclear power plant located in the soviet union near pripyat in ukraine exploded. further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. nearly thirty to forty times more fallout w...
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quattordici anni fa in questi giorni di fine aprile in ruanda avvenne uneruzione di violenza che ha pochi pochissimi precedenti nella storia 800.000 mila vittime forse un milione massacrate in cento giorni in un piccolo paese dellafrica che per dimensioni equivale grosso modo a un terzo della danimarca 416 persone massacrate ogni ora 7 persone ogni minuto massacrate a colpi di machete e di martel...
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a little whimsy for your friday. everyone that knows me in the real world is well aware how much i adore my little dog mia. shes a little old lady now but still as sweet funny and full of personality as ever. this life of mine would be a much darker place without mia by my side. i dont write about her here on found object just like i dont write about my family or who i am dating. yet shes right he...
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todays pictures viva la causa chavez......
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raymond depardon......
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st. patricks day has come once again and although im not as irish as some i do respect the tradition and heritage behind the holiday. last year i wrote about my interests in the history of st. patricks day and i posted a link to some beautiful photography of irish pastimes. this year i wanted to comment on traditional or at least stereotypical irish cuisine. my sources tell me that im supposed to ...
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aive seen it happen in other people livesa breve ma intensa galleria fotografica di coppie annoiate. slate......
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robert capa carnival 1950a......
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from the series bored couples by martin parr.......
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on gandhis death anniversary slate has published a set of pictures taken by henri cartierbresson the photographer. thanks anand for the link.by chance i read solzhenitsyns harvard commencement speech of 1978 yesterday. it could have been given by gandhi reading out from hind swaraj. or lohia from marx gandhi and socialism. as he left russia solzhenitsyn smuggled out a single message to the russia...
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