Future Perfect

Carrie and Debbie, may the Force be with you. Always.

In 1849, Anglican bishop Robert Gray described a slave ship being unloaded on the island of St Helena. “I never beheld a more piteous sight,” he observed of the people on board. Some were dead; many more were close to it. “They had a worn look and wasted appearance, and were moved into the boats like bales of goods, apparently without any will of their own.”

The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies up to 3,000 years old have been virtually unwrapped and reconstructed for the first time using cutting-edge scanning technology in a joint British-Australian exhibition.

Three-dimensional images of six mummies aged between 900BC and 140-180AD from ancient Egypt, which have been held at the British Museum but never physically unwrapped, give an insight into what it was like to live along the Nile river thousands of years ago.

“We are revealing details of all their physical remains as well as the embalming material used by the embalmers like never before,” the British Museum’s physical anthropology curator Daniel Antoine told AFP at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Thursday.

You create walls. You manufacture rules. You live a small life, while lying to yourself that you’re as open and free as the stars

You tell yourself the reason is survival. Good reason, right?

But sometimes survival is about telling yourself lies… until you can’t lie anymore

& then you have to make a choice about who you really are… and what’s worth living for

Lies are easier, that’s for sure.

Five African–American women pose for a portrait with their babies beside slave quarters on St. Helena Island, S.C., in 1866.

WOMAN’S PHOTO COLLECTION NOW IN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The Library of Congress acquired more than 500 images from an 87-year-old collector.  Hundreds of rare Civil War images, mostly made by Southern photographers, have been released online.

tfw your folks replace the (perfectly serviceable!!!) old hoover with a roomba and you don’t have a god damn clue how you’re gonna fly the thing

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