nprfreshair:

rhamphotheca:

by Sebastian Gomez de la Torre

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Napoleon Bonaparte as a sloth because we can. - Nell

And why not.

  8:55 am  |   December 11 2012   |  438 notes  

I thank/blame Jen for introducing this addictive narcotic to my life.

  4:43 pm  |   December 10 2012  

discoverynews:

dendroica:

todayinhistory:

December 5th 1933: Prohibition ends

On this day in 1933, Prohibition officially ended in the United States upon the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. Utah was the final state to ratify the amendment, and this gave the measure the required 75% of state approval. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of 1920 which had imposed Prohibition, which banned alcohol in the United States. This is the only time in US history when one amendment overturned another.

Here’s to the end of Prohibition. *clinks glass*

I’ll drink to that!

Very confused by the NRA logo in the upper-left-hand corner.

(via okorogariist)

  9:09 am  |   December 10 2012   |  2,389 notes  

theatlantic:

ourpresidents:

Draft of FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech. December 7, 1941.

A few hours after learning of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dictated a short address to be delivered to a Joint Session of Congress the following day.

His handwritten revisions—visible in this December 7 draft of the speech—made the “Day of Infamy” speech one of the most memorable in American history.

Read more about the drafting of this significant speech.

–from the FDR Library

We ran an incredibly photo essay about Pearl Harbor last year. Check it out.

Wow. Did not know about this.

(via dailychao)

  11:47 am  |   December 7 2012   |  759 notes  

She’s right!

(Source: koreanstudentsspeak)

  2:23 pm  |   December 6 2012   |  38 notes  

  12:00 am  |   December 5 2012   |  3 notes  

“The 39% of Americans with an opinion about Bowles/Simpson is only slightly higher than the 25% with one about Panetta/Burns, a mythical Clinton Chief of Staff/former western Republican Senator combo we conceived of to test how many people would say they had an opinion even about something that doesn’t exist.”

— Public Policy Polling, you’re amazing.

  3:05 pm  |   December 4 2012   |  8 notes  

  3:02 pm  |   December 4 2012   |  1 note  

motherboardtv:

On the Lam with John McAfee

Despite a press release saying he’d been arrested at the Mexican border, we can confirm that John McAfee is still on the run, and that some of our colleagues from VICE are currently with him. For their own safety, we can’t say where exactly they are, but we can say that they are filming a video that’s set to publish sometime in the next 24 hours. Check back here for the video, we’ll let you know when it’s live.

READ MORE

- by Derek Mead

Very proud of my colleagues at VICE right now. Journalism!

  3:20 pm  |   December 3 2012   |  2 notes  

zuky:

so-treu:

Fats Domino.

This man was recording rock ‘n’ roll music — i.e. blues rhythm, chord structure, and melody, driven by a strong backbeat — in the 1940s. Almost a decade before Elvis recorded his first number one hit, “Heartbreak Hotel.”

And those PANTS.

(Source: thatgroovychick, via ushistoryminuswhiteguys)

  5:47 pm  |   December 2 2012   |  1,069 notes