Unusual Photos.

The Radium Girls, 1922



The Radium Girls painted numbers on the faces of wristwatches using dangerous radioactive paint.

The Radium Girls were told that the paint was harmless, but the women in each factory ingested lethal amounts of radium after being told to "point" the brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip.

 

June 8, 1968




James Earl Ray, is arrested in London for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

I wonder what watches are still out there.

 

Some abuse their right to vote as if the vision of real politics were not primitive enough.

 

No doubt there are still thousands of those watches out there in circulation

Radium has a half-life of 1,600 years so they're still as radioactive as ever.

 

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Albert Einstein giving a lecture on relativity to black university students

His peers hated him for it and the press ignored it which is why it's a rare and unusual photo1946

 

Stevie Wonder visiting a children's school for the blind in London, 1970

 

It wouldn't stop his hive mind.

 

There were plenty of opportunities for him to take advantage of all the kinds of cutting edge optic medical technology the media often "discovers" and I wonder if he ever tried anything like that.

 

Free us.

 

I watched a film on that. It was amazing.

 

An air gunner training simulator in the Imperial Russia (1915).

 

Shrunken Head Displayed in Georgia Was Returned to Ecuador

 

What a specimen.