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Hundreds of people flocked to a Medford church today for the funeral of Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell. Some had to be turned away from the door of the packed building, while others came expressly to line the street to guard the grieving family from a protest by a fringe group.

Squeeee! Dog and cheetah cub playing.

Stephen Colbert, LET ME LOVE YOU

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Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert discuss suit-jacket techniques [x]

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Dress ca. 1876

From the Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection via the FIDM Museum Blog

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Rare Photos Of The Soviet Space Program From Gagarin To Intercosmos

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How awesome is this? 

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While illustrator Saul Steinberg‘s map of the United States and Asia, View of the World from 9th Avenue (shown at the end of this post), was the point-of-view map that spawned a raft of imitators (and is certainly one of the great cartographical reimaginings of recent times), it was hardly the first. The map above (found on Core77) was drawn for the 1936 Times Book Fair, and displays just as much humor and NY-centrism as Steinberg’s 1976 New Yorker cover. Point-of-view maps like these are interesting for their reflexive quality: in a way, their subject is as much the viewer as it is the content of the piece. (As a native New Yorker, I can confirm that the world does indeed appear as depicted in them, under certain weather conditions.) An even older example turned up recently on Maps on the Web, and can be seen between the two New Yorks below. Dating from 1927, it depicts the world as represented by filming locations in and around California: the Sudan Desert can be found in Nevada, and the Long Island Sound just off the coast near L.A. I’m sure there are far older examples as well.

Paramount Studio map of California’s geographical facsimiles:

Steinberg’s illustration for the cover of the March 29, 1976, issue of The New Yorker magazine: 

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Bookcase in a bus in Hamburg. More such ideas, please!

I always did like Hamburg. Just another reason…

And at least use the damn imperative form instead of just flinging genitives around.

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Has anyone verified that the Tamerlan Tsarnaev Golden Gloves boxer is the same man as suspect? http://t.co/IdV3KopYle

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“Being a woman is not a means to humiliate and punish anyone”

After a policeman in the Iranian Kurdish town of Marivan paraded an accused criminal in traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in the streets in order to humiliate him, women marched in the city condemning the use of women’s attire as a kind of humiliation.

In support, an internet campaign of Kurdish and other Iranian men has sprung up showing men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes and messages and support. For example, this message says,”wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is not only not an insult, it is instead a great honor for us,” and goes on to describe how women stand side by side with men in every part of society and during wartime.

Support the campaign by liking the page!
زن بودن ابزار تحقیر و تنبیه هیچ کس نیست

(via Ajam Media Collective)

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Naturally, most people, myself included, tend to think that all of Africa was initially inhabited by African American tribes.

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Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Glass model of apple blossoms, late 19th-early 20th century (source).

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View/Post Comments Princeton University mom and alumna Susan Patton defended her call for women students to marry before they graduate during a talk on campus on April 18, 2013. Oren Fliegelman  

By Louise Connelly
For The Times

PRINCETON — Princeton University mom and alumna Susan Patton, who drew national attention last month with a letter urging women students to find a husband at the university before they graduate, defended her position during a talk on campus last night.

“You’ll never have a better concentration of outstanding men to choose from,” Patton, whose son attends the school, told an audience of about 200 students. “After college, your pool of men will shrink dramatically.”

"A woman looking for a husband in her 30s gives off total desperation," Patton said, likening the effect to a "man repellent."

During a lecture hosted by the university’s American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Patton said she wrote the letter to the campus newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, expecting to reach 200 people.

The day after its publication she learned there had been over 100,000 searches for her name on Google. She said the media attention has only reinforced her opinions.

“I am absolutely delighted with the response,” she said. “Educated women should not feel ashamed or uncool or unpopular by saying, yes, I want to be married and have children someday.”

Patton, who is divorced and works as a professional executive coach, and said she has been solicited by several literary agents and will be writing a book.

Patton said she had attended a discussion of women and leadership in February where Anne-Marie Slaughter, a professor whose writing on work-life balance has drawn wide interest recently, and university president Shirley Tilghman spoke. She said yesterday that she was surprise by female undergraduates’ focus on their professional rather than their personal lives.

“They are receiving so much information about career planning, and they don’t need to hear any more of it,” Patton said.

She urged women students to plan for their personal happiness the way they plan for their professional careers.

“Use your time on campus to do many things,” she said. “But multitask a little further and look around you to see who among these guys you’d want to spend the rest of your life with, maybe.”

Patton said that while the men who graduate from Princeton grow more desirable with age, the women carry a “burden.”

“If we do want to marry men who are our intellectual equal, we’ve almost priced ourselves out of the market,” she said. “Finding a husband as smart as you is going to be hard if you don’t find him at school.”

Patton also said women should not wait until their 30s to get married because of potential difficulties in finding a spouse and bearing children at that age.

“A woman looking for a husband in her 30s gives off total desperation,” Patton said, likening the effect to a “man repellent.”

“The fallacy of gender equality is that men can take a lifetime to marry and have children, and women cannot,” she said. “That is a hard and cold bulletproof fact.”

Patton criticized the feminist movement, arguing it was “bullying” and “intimidating” women into repressing their desire to enter a traditional marriage and to have children.

“They went too far and crossed over to the dark side, putting forward messages intended to tear down the male power structure,” Patton said. “We need a new post-feminist manifesto that enables women and empowers women to want all that they want for themselves.”

Adressing women students who will graduate this spring without a potential Princeton husband, Patton suggested they keep their eyes open, regularly attend a house of worship and stay involved with alumni affairs.

“Stay in touch with these guys,” she said. “You never know what will evolve over time.”

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During the deadly earthquake that hit Ya'an, a rural area in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, a television reporter who was getting married left her wedding to report on the disaster. She was still in her wedding gown:

Chen Ying, an anchorwoman at a television station in earthquake zone Ya'an, was getting married on Saturday when the earthquake hit her city.

Local media said she rushed back to her job to report on the earthquake in her wedding gown.

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Mark being far too sweet on twitter again.

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“David Ortiz spoke from the heart at today’s Red Sox game. I stand with Big Papi and the people of Boston - Julius”

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Twitter / FCC: David Ortiz spoke from the …

FCC officially excuses Big Papi saying “This is our fucking city.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoTnGa-Dckw (0:35) )

Three skilled women at the Alden factory are responsible for all of the handsewn NSTs and LHSs that go through the factory floor. It obviously takes more time for these handsewn shoes to be made but the wait is definitely worth it for this special detail.

This color #8 burgundy NST is a model we regularly stock on the Aberdeen last, but rarely see on the Barrie. Grab a pair while they’re available in stock.

Also pictured is the exact same pair, 12 years old, with very minimal polishing. The patina is amazing and the wear on the shell is equally so. This pair is a testament to the value in a pair of Alden shoes made with Horween shell cordovan.

(Barrie last, $700.00)

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