History didn’t just survive — it drew the world in. In 2025, something remarkable happened in Mexico City. The National Museum of Anthropology welcomed over 5 million visitors in a single year, breaking its all-time attendance record and placing it among the most visited museums on Earth.

Trump is so stupid, he thinks that Greenland is as big as the Mercator projection incorrectly makes it look. The Mercator projection makes Greenland seem as big as Africa, despite Africa being about 14 times larger. This occurs because the projection inflates landmasses located close to the poles.

"The clocktower in Berne", 1882 By, Franz Alt (Austrian, 1821 - 1914) watercolour on paper

Trump protects pedos. Ignore the Greenland, Minneapolis, tariff, & Venezuela distractions.

Deborah Sampson Gannett, (1760– 1827) was a Mass. woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the Revolution. She served under the name Robert Shirtliff. In uniform for 17 months before her sex was discovered in 1783 when she required medical treatment.

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[Excerpt:] Death! Plop. The barges down in the river flop. Flop, plop. Above, beneath. From the slimy branches the grey drips drop, As they scraggle black on the thin grey sky, Where the black cloud rack-hackles drizzle and fly To the oozy waters, that lounge and flop

Theo Marzials [Bad poet] Born in The United Kingdom December 20, 1850 Died February 02, 1920 Genre Poetry

[Tennyson's 1st version was "The Lady of Red Onion," but the copy desk changed it.] "The Lady of Shalott" is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by the 13thC Italian short prose text Donna di Scalotta, the poem tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat.

Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) The Blue Veil, 1898

[You think you have problems? You don't know from problems.]

A Perfect World is a 1993 American thriller crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood.Kevin Costner plays an escaped convict. Eastwood co-stars as a Texas Ranger. It was acclaimed for acting, directing, editing, cinematography, and musical score. It's considered one of Eastwood's best films.

[Submarine aircraft carriers] The I-400-class Imperial Japanese Navy subs were the largest subs of WWII, with the final boat being finished roughly a month before the end of the war. They were the largest subs ever built until the launch of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s.

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

"We don't have to show you no stinkin' badges!"

'Continuation' (つづきもの, Tsuzuki mono), 1916, by Itō Shoha (伊藤小坡, 1877-1968), a female Japanese painter who came from Mie Prefecture and specialised in bijinga (美人画) portraits of beautiful women.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Scofflaw Trump & his craven stooges fear accountability.

Microsoft products are dangerous garbage. Microsoft issued patches for at least 113 security gaps in its operating systems & other software on Jan. 13. Eight of the flaws earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating. The firm warns that attackers are already exploiting 1 of the bugs.

Trump’s been told the midterms look bleak for the GOP, with his dismal approval ratings & congressional Rs’ ratings even worse. So the rusty, dusty hamster wheel in hiss mind is waddling from A to B, arriving at anyone who doesn’t love him shouldn't be allowed to vote!

Phoney-baloney Pre-Raphaelite reptiles shedding crocodile tears

17.01.2026 It’s the third Saturday in January, National Tulip Day in the Netherlands; marking the start of the Dutch tulip season .Valentine Cameron Prinsep (British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school, (1838-1904) Mariana. This painting was inspired by Tennyson’s 1830 poem "Mariana"

"The law sleeps but it never dies." -- adage in China; "The mills of the gods grind exceeding slow but they grind exceeding fine." -- adage in Europe

Grim fate of shortstops who can't cut it in the NY Yankees' farm system

It‘s wet out. Sheltering from the rain in Cardiff 2019 #blackandwhite #B&W #Photography #photo #bwphotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #mono

My lovely Vienna #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #ColorADay #BWFri #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt #BlackAndWhite #mono #vienna

Street-side composition, South Grand, St. Louis, Missouri #iphonephotography #mobilephotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #stl #StLouis #SouthGrand #bnw #blackandwhitephotographty #streetphotography #monochrome #noirphotography #nightphotography

THIS WOMAN IS ON FIRE!!!

Romà Ribera i Cirera (1848-1935) Abans del ball / Before the ball

René Gruau (1909-2004) was a fashion illustrator. His approach involved fierce editing & also rendering materials in a way that left no doubt as to their reality. In this image he took a photograph of a Paquin house model wearing a Colette Massignac evening dress from the 1948 couture collection.

Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) Young women picking fruit" (c.1891) Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh