Prove that 3+7+11+…(4n-1) = n(2n+1)
Time to go to sleep… night night lovelies!
Also: 99 years ago…
Photograph: Vogue Magazine, 1926: “From left to right: Alden Gay wearing a black and white chiffon dress by Madame Frances with a wide-brimmed hat. Marion Morehouse, wearing a light-colored chiffon dress by Jay-Thorpe, with a wide-brimmed hat and Miss Collier, holding a parasol, and wearing a printed chiffon and lace dress with a Tuscan straw hat.”
One on the left is atleast 7 feet tall
99 Years ago. Women wear clothes.
Time to go to sleep… night night lovelies!
Also: because, Picasso
Photograph: Pablo Picasso poses for the camera, with a camera. Barcelona, Spain, 1962 by André Villers
With a camera… and two watches? Why? Because, Picasso.
Bonus: also Barcelona, 1962
The Great Snow of 1962. Nobody who lived it has forgotten it (certainly not my parents and grandparents). For a city used to get about one milimeter of snow each ten years, those 15-50 cm were the event of the century. It started snowing on Chistmas day and kept snowing until Boxing day
Double bonus: not Barcelona, but not too far, on september 25th of 1962
The Vallés floods. Between 617 (offficially) and above 1,000 dead since the dictatorship wasn’t exactly thrilled with accounting the actual magnitude of the disaster.
1962 was a crazy weather year around my corner of the woods…
A 1944 photo of an incredibly muscular man in Africa sparked legends of a Real Hulk. Was he a genetic anomaly, a warrior with unique training, or something more?
Nah, that’s not how a buff man looked before steroids and modern body-building techniques. Here’s Eugen Sandow, father of body-building, captured in 1906 with his built-up body made through just exercising:
Oh, and it’s my beddy time! Night night lovelies!
Also: we’ll never know…
Photograph: “New York (woman with milk bottles)” by Helen Levitt, ca. 1945
Was she mocking the very pregnant woman looking at her over the shoulder? Was she just fooling around with the bottles and the smart-eyed photographer took a chance of doing a funny shot? Helen Levitt mastered the art of shooting people -mostly newyorkers- in the wild, unfiltered and unexpected… “Yo, yo, look at my jugs…!”
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When Zaera grew up over 300 years ago, there was no television.
Zaera had to find other ways to amuse herself
Time to go to sleep… night night lovelies!
Also: I’m too sexy for my machinegun…
Photograph: Lt. Anatoly V. Lebed, aircrew member of 239 helicopter regiment of the special units of Airborne Forces, Afghanistan, 1987
He’s the first “S” in “USSR” as “Union of Sexy Socialist Republics”.
TIP: Take helmet off before eating