Ted, it is about 2:30 in the afternoon. You are scheduled to be executed tomorrow morning at 7:00 if you don’t receive another stay. What is going through your mind? What thoughts have you had in these last few days?

Such comparisons expose the sides ethnologically and the minutiae are symbolic of greater political meaning. The humanized perspective and palpability reveal our complacency in addressing an ongoing, if psychological, war and are an examination of the understated reality of the veneer that protects us from an apocalypse. Weapons and Facilities in this selection of photographs (Nato designations for USSR and CIS) ICBMs and Cruise missiles include:  SS-18 ‘Satan’ (Active 1967-Present) SS-24 ‘Scalpel’ (Active 1976 -2008) AS-4 'Kitchen’ (Active 1962-2007) Titan II (Active 1962-1988) SS-N-3 'Shaddock’ (Active 1959-1990)

Hungarian Communist secret police members, moments before summary execution by rebels during the 1956 uprising.

The Daily Republican, Monongahela, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1896

Masks worn by plague doctors. It had glass eye openings and a cone nose shaped like a beak to hold scented substances and straw. 

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Der Stern von Afrika, Hans Joachim Marseille

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A quiet and reserved child, Chikatilo was bullied at school for his small statue and introverted personality. His father was conscripted into the war and was captured by German soldiers which culturally brought great shame to the family for his perceived weakness, this exacerbated the bullying further. Young Chikatilo had few friends and preferred reading books to socialising with his peers.

— Richard Ramirez

Mr Lee American Medium Tanks at the assembly line.

Will You Die For Me? by Charles “Tex” Watson (via edmundkempr)

Pregnant Sharon Tate and her Yorkshire Terrier, Prudence, photographed by Jay Sebring in early August, 1969. While Sebring took Sharon’s picture, Voytek Frykowski stood close and photographed them both. In the picture taken by Frykowski, Abigail Folger’s dog, Tom, can be seen on the right, next to the chairs and table. These are two of the pictures that depict their last days, at 10050 Cielo Drive.

Ted is pictured with his relatives in the family’s Evergreen Park backyard, in his early 20s. In the first picture he can be seen on the left, standing next to his brother Dave - who in later years was responsible for informing the police about Ted, eventually leading to his arrest as The Unabomber. In the second picture he can be seen in the background. The women present in the pictures are his grandmother Helen Kaczynski (left), cousin Kathy Kaczynski (middle) and aunt Josephine Manney (right).

Taxi Station at the Hotel Rainier, 307 Carrall Street, Vancouver, 1920

Concept art for the new Sandy Hook Elementary school and the start of construction