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Alice (1988 film)

 

Good find I will steal for my personal thread xxx

 

The Central Social Institution in Prague was home to the world’s largest vertical file cabinet, with over 3,000 drawers, 1937.

 

28th Maori battalion performing haka, Egypt 1941.

 

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States, was a great cat aficionado. First Lady Mary Todd said cats were her husband's only hobby. He took in strays and had several cats in the White House, even though he had left his dog Fido behind in Springfield, Illinois. Secretary of State William Seward gave him two kittens, Tabby and Dixie, and the President doted on them shamelessly even at formal events. He once fed Tabby from the table at a state dinner. When his wife complained, Lincoln reassured her, "If the gold fork was good enough for [former President James] Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby." In the home stretch of the Civil War in March, 1865, Lincoln went to see General Ulysses Grant, then engaged in the siege of Petersburg in Virginia. While he was at Grant's headquarters in City Point, he saw three kittens in the telegraph hut. He scooped them up and cuddled them on his lap. According to Admiral David Porter, Lincoln talked to them, saying, "Kitties, thank God you are cats, and can't understand this terrible strife that is going on." Before he left, he charged a colonel with ensuring the kittens were fed and sheltered. 10 of History's Craziest Cat People​

 

The Cardinal's Leisure by Charles Edouard Delort, 19th century. Image credit: Detroit Institute of Arts via The History Blog
Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (1585-1642)—cardinal, statesman, the power behind the throne, and scene-stealing villain of The Three Musketeers—was such a devotee of the cat that he contributed significantly to their adoption as companion animals in fashionable French society. Richelieu had a cattery built at his residence the Palais-Cardinal (later the Palais-Royal) to house his many cats, mostly Persians, and Angoras, and was said to always have a cat on his lap as he worked.