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abaldwin360:

The words of Carl Sagan, illustrated.

zenpencils.com

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Words to keep inside your pocket:

• Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
• Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful. 
• Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound. 
• Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling. 
• Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like. 
• Aubade - a song greeting the dawn. 
• Ephemeral - lasting a very short time. 
• Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal. 
• Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound. 
• Billet-doux - a love letter. 
• Redamancy - act of loving in return.

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lostsplendor:

Mmle. Marguerite, via New York Public Library

un:

s31415: 20120220-1. Click for a zoomable image.

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OH MY GOSH THIS IS MY ADVISOR’S OFFICE, ONLY REPLACE HALF THE BOOKS WITH LOOSE ACADEMIC PAPERS.

hoxe:

shrine by wild goose chase on Flickr.

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obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: Rechtvaardige onder de Volkeren*

Tina Strobos (on the right in the photo) and her mother Maria Schotte saved 100 Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in their attic of their home. Strobos, who not yet 20 when the Hitler invaded The Netherlands in May 1940,originally served as a member of the resistance. Strobos would deliver explosives, radios and other necessary supplies, sometimes travelling over 50 miles by bicycle to fulfill her mission.

As helping those in the Dutch underground became too dangerous, Strobos and her mother began to help Jews hide and, eventually, escape the country. Maria Schotte brought in a carpenter who built a false wall in the attic that could hide up to four people and left a window for escape. (Strobos had said that one of the reasons Anne Frank and her family were caught was because they had no escape route.) Although officials were suspicious - Strobos was arrested nine times and her house searched eight - they never discovered a single person.

In 1951, Tina Strobos emigrated to the United States, where she practiced psychiatry for nearly sixty years.

Random note: Before moving to the U.S. she studied under Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund.

Strobos, who died at the age of 91, was named “righteous among nations” by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in 1989 for her work. Explaining the reasons for her actions, Strobos said, “I never believed in God; but I believed in the sacredness of life.”

(Image of Strobos and Schotte from 1938 is courtesy of larchmontgazette.com)

* “Righteous Among Nations” in Dutch

lostsplendor:

Snow in New York, c. 1948 (via Retronaut)

proofmathisbeautiful:

Thanks macmankev for submitting this!! :O

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