Post A Picture of Anything Thread II

Open wide.

 

Newlyweds in Paris 1940.

 

A man and his castle. Springfield, MA.

 

Antrim, Northern Ireland. There be monsters at the end of this dark road!!

 

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come... yeah right.

 

The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names… Its caravans, those strange rambling feasts and cultures, left nothing behind, not an ember. All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

 

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a colour that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?
- Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

 

19th century Firefighters looked like Darth Vader and C3PO.

 

49 years later, the couple on the cover of the Woodstock album are still togethe. How cool is that?

 

Tippi Degré was born in Namibia to French wildlife photographer parents. Go Google this amazing story!

 

Huge stable with marble floors in Dubai. Gives new meaning to the word ostentatious.

 

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Yeah right!.

 

Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1875. Isn't it time these stolen artifacts were returned to Egypt???