Leaping skills make Doberman pinschers into great “police dogs.” Rushville, Indiana, December 1941.
Photograph by Willard Culver, National Geographic
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Sigourney Weaver
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Race cars roar around the track at the Iowa State Fair in 1938.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
A tarsier (Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero - BBC)
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Madonna by Chris Shaw.
In 1958, still a decade before the moon landing, Engineering made UCLA the first university with an astronautics program. This prototype of a space suit was designed in 1961.
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I’ll be posting just hyenas all day today.
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Little Richard
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Cover illustration for Structures by Michael DeForge.
George Catlin, Wounded Buffalo Bull Surrounded by White Wolves, 1832-33
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
George Catlin sketched this scene on the Upper Missouri River in 1832. While he insisted that his images were accurate documents of what he saw, it is clear that Catlin’s artistic eye led him to edit his compositions. Here he chose to position the buffalo so that its rounded form echoes the hills in the distance.
Catlin was horrified at what the wolves had done to the bull, noting that the animal’s eyes “were entirely eaten out of his head—-the grizzle of his nose was mostly gone—-his tongue was half eaten off, and the skin and flesh of his legs torn almost literally into strings. In this tattered and torn condition, the poor old veteran stood bracing up in the midst of his devourers …”
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