♫ April 28, 2013 ♫

absenzio:

i-killed-the-tree-of-life:

thethespacecoyote:

hey-its-tsai:

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fuckyeahrobespierre:

Some of the most iconic photos of our history. Seeing them in color makes it even more surreal.

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HOW THE FUCK IS THIS DONE—

did i already reblog this

who cares it’s awesome

The middle three I think are especially poignant, because I think when images of destruction, violence, and death are seen in black and white, there’s a sort of unreality about them…a tendency to see them as history, the stuff of textbooks, and not as real things that really happened. 

GOOSEBUMPS

this is almost surreal holy shit

talesofwar:

A muddy trench with telephone wires hanging everywhere.

talesofwar:

A muddy trench with telephone wires hanging everywhere.

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talesofwar:

What remains of the Belgian city of Ypres. 

talesofwar:

What remains of the Belgian city of Ypres. 

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talesofwar:

A communication trench at Vidalet woods, sector of Marquise farm. April 1916.

talesofwar:

A communication trench at Vidalet woods, sector of Marquise farm. April 1916.

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ppsh-41:

German infantry riding on top of a StuG III Ausf. G assault gun on the Eastern Front in 1942.

ppsh-41:

German infantry riding on top of a StuG III Ausf. G assault gun on the Eastern Front in 1942.

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ppsh-41:

Soviet machine gunner with a DP-27 inside one of the many destroyed houses in Stalingrad,

ppsh-41:

Soviet machine gunner with a DP-27 inside one of the many destroyed houses in Stalingrad,

thatgirlwiththeredcamera:

#oh right this movie was a thing once #hey tatum remember when you had a huge crush on this guy #why yes i am reblogging this for the sole reason of poking fun at my best friend #reallycooper #king arthur #mads mikkelsen

awkwardsituationist:

“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces

Significantly, one of the officials placed under investigation for suspected abuse of office was Marcello Fiori, the special commissioner appointed by Rome to oversee the “state of emergency” repair work at Pompeii from August 2008 to July 2010.

But the buck does not stop with a few managers accused of lining their own pockets. Something more worrying lurks in the shadows – the Camorra mafia. Just 15 miles away lies the southern port of Naples, the crime group’s home base, where it has a hand in everything from drugs to construction projects and rubbish collection .

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