jaymug:

How To Build A Zeppelin

Rare color photos taken in New York City during the 1940s.

(Source: Daily Mail)

This is a photo of Lou Gehrig relaxing in the Yankees dugout and doing some things that might not go over so well today. (via Baseball Used To Be Cool [PIC])

 Even though she’s over 500 years old (preserved on a Peruvian mountain at over 22,000 feet) you’d never know it by looking at her. (by NationalGeographic)

Eric Clapton’s “Tears In Heaven” gets beautifully illustrated as part of a series that show the stories behind the music, by Young & Rubicam for Hardrock Cafe.

acwsoundsystem:

Theyre standing in a bread line i think

newstijl:

Margaret Bourke-White 1937

(via The Development of the Camera: From Ancient to Instant [INFOGRAPHIC])

For the Rube Goldberg Competition, a team from Purdue University took the simple task of watering a flower, and turned it into a record-shattering 244-step lesson in the evolution of the world. Talk about overachievers. (via swissmiss)

jadehernandez:

Manhatten, then and now

(via turnthisway)

thedailywhat:

This Day In History of the Day: On April 17, 1991 — 20 years ago today — an up-and-coming Seattle trio named Nirvana took the stage at Pioneer Square’s legendary OK Hotel and debuted a song called “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

By year’s end, that “Pixies rip off” had made the band a household name, and helped kick-start a generation.

[sue / reddit.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

ilovecharts:

Mapping Time

That is a lot of Time covers! Gotta catch ‘em all!