Source: laphotographieatoutprix.tumblr.comTimber yacht from 1930, moored under dark skies. Source: mardenostuff.tumblr.comSource: guzzigazz.tumblr.comSource: kiltypleasure.tumblr.comThe 11th Panchen Lama, 6 year old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, in 1995. Soon after his appointment was announced by the current 14th Deli Lama, Gedhun and his parents were abducted by the Chinese Government and they have all since disappeared. Source: reddit.com/HistoryPornSource: mea-gloria-fides.tumblr.comAlice Denham (1927-2016), Florida-born model, actor, writer and later adjunct professor of English at City University in New York. Alice was Playboy Magazine’s Playmate of the Month for July 1956 and also the author of three novels and a memoir. Of her early days in New York she said “Manhattan was a river of men flowing past my door, and when I was thirsty, I drank. Source: listal.comSource: sabinerondissime.tumblr.comSource: titsgoddess.tumblr.com1985 and the Puritans remind bathers at a Florida beach that they are headed straight to Hell. Source: aiiaiiiyo.comCarta del regno d’Italia secondo i nuovi confini, IstitutoGeografico De Agostini, 1922. Source: bechance.netIn December 1925 the Boston Daily Globe reported that Pep the black Labrador had been sentenced to life in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philidelphia for killing a cat that belonged to the Prison Governor’s wife. Years later, the Governor’s wife confessed that Pep hadn’t killed her cat but that the Governor had taken Pep to the prison to improve morale amongst inmates. Pep was beloved by wardens and inmates alike. Source: Boston Daily Globe, 26 December 1925. Photo credit: reddit.com/HistoryPornSource: titsgoddess.tumblr.comSource: sabinerondissime.tumblr.comSource: guzzigazz.tumblr.comAmerican actor, Gillian Anderson (b.1968 in Chicago). Source: thebackgroundworld.tumblr.comPhryne before the Areopagus. Painted by Jean-Leon Gerome in 1861 (Public Domain).
Phryne was a famed courtesan in ancient Athens, born about 371 BCE and extraordinarily beautiful. She was prosecuted on a capital charge (possibly “impiety”) and brought before the court where she was defended by one of her lovers, the orator Hypereides.
During the trial Hypereides dramatically tore off Phryne’s robes to show the judges her beautiful breasts, making the point that only a God could sculpt a body so perfect and that executing or imprisoning her would be blasphemous and disrespectful to the Gods. Phryne was subsequently acquitted and freed. Text source: ancient.origins.netSource: yes-slipperytoad.tumblr.com
