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Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
As the game went into the night, the ash trays overflowed and the air got positively "blue." Reasoning that "if men can take it, so can we," the women continued.
On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn., explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers.”
Thus the storied weekly and photographer Nina Leen chronicled the shenanigans that erupted when a group of GOP women got together for an old-fashioned “smoker” (noun: an informal social gathering for men only) on one long, memorable night in southern New England.
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Only one day left on iPlayer for this documentary about a great, but little known, photographer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03zjkf0/oscar-marzaroli-man-with-a-camera
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Turkmenistan's Gate to Hell, actually a collapsed Soviet-era Russian rig
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COAT OF LIVING BEES
sounds more like some surreal nightmare than a chinese dude trying to sell honey
also a good band name/album title, I'm claiming it for the latter -
Caption from LIFE. "High priestess Artemis stirs salt and water mixture which is used to 'purify' the sacred circle in all witchcraft rites. On the table are incense burner, cord and statue of goddess. At right is herb chest containing incense."
A witchcraft initiation ceremony, England, 1964.
Terence Spencer—PORTRAITS OF ENGLISH PAGANS
Just about 50 years ago, in the fall of 1964, LIFE magazine published what must have felt to the venerable weekly’s long-time readers like a strikingly weird feature. Titled “Real Witches at Work,” the piece included photographs of modern-day British pagans — doctors, housewives, nurses, teachers — celebrating their ancient rites, dancing around fires and generally behaving like perfectly normal, faithful worshippers of the sun, the moon and Mother Nature have been acting for thousands of years.
Today, of course, when magic, the supernatural and the occult are central elements of some of pop culture’s most familiar (and profitable) franchises, and Wiccans are more likely to be found serving on the local school board or city council than practicing their beliefs in secret for fear of being “found out,” an article on real, live witches would excite little more than a shrug and a meh. In the early 1960s, however the notion of grown men and women getting naked in order to practice their religion would likely have blown a goodly number of puritanical minds.
But then, as Mrs. Ray Bone — a British housewife and pagan high priestess — noted in a nicely reasoned defence of witchcraft penned for that long-ago issue of LIFE: “It seems obvious to me that people can be just as immoral with their clothes on as with them off.”
Amen to that, Mrs. Bone. Amen to that.
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The Kazakhs of the Altai mountain range in western Mongolia are the only people that hunt with golden eagles, and today there are around 400 practising falconers. Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.
The skill of hunting with eagles, Svidensky says, lies in harnessing an unpredictable force of nature. "You don't really control the eagle. You can try and make her hunt an animal - and then it's a matter of nature. What will the eagle do? Will she make it? How will you get her back afterwards?"
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Turkmenistan's Gate to Hell, actually a collapsed Soviet-era Russian rig
The site was identified by Soviet scientists in 1971.[3] It was thought to be a substantial oil field site.[4] The scientists set up a drilling rig and camp nearby, and started drilling operations to assess the quantity of gas reserve available at the site. As the Soviets were pleased with the success of finding the gas resources, they started storing the gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig and camp collapsed into a wide crater and disappeared. No lives were lost in the incident. Large quantities of methane gas were released, however, creating an environmental problem and posing a potential danger to the people of the nearby villages.[citation needed]
Fearing the further release of poisonous gases from the cavern, the scientists decided to burn it off.[1] They thought that it would be safer to burn it than to extract it from underground through expensive methods. At that time, expectations were that the gas would burn out within a few weeks, but has continued to burn more than four decades after it was set on fire.[1]
– wikipediamental.
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Calcio Storico
The Calcio Fiorentino is an early form of football, originally played only by the aristocracy. Currently, a Calcio Fiorentino tournament is held every year, on the third week of June at the La Santa Croce square in Florence, Italy. Four teams play against each other to the finals that take place every year on 24 June, the day of San Giovanni, the patron saint of Florence. This historic game had not been played for 200 years until the tradition was revived in the 1930’s.
Seems to be harsh.
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^ Nice.
Some b&w photos that have been colour tinted..
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http://d4nuk0dd6nrma.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/80B_2577.jpg
I love this - it feels like a medieval painting of a religious icon
You can’t go to battle with scuffed shoes. It’s a funny thought, but in some weird way, it makes perfect sense. Matteo Pelucchi was called in as a late replacement for a sick, Sylvain Chavanel, and he took to his chance with a smile. I love it that Matteo fixed that nasty scuff on the toe of his shoe before starting Roubaix. I like it even more that he had an ‘I heart Roubaix’ sticker on his shoe.
from an excellent set here:
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/04/shooting-the-classics/ -
Josef Koudelka, Angel on Bicycle, Czech Carnival in Olomouc (1968)
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Thanks for the link, well worth a watch