brieweezy:

Undeterred by recent bombings, London residents visit what’s left of a library during World War II.

(via prettybooks)

futurejournalismproject:

Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg

Survival Facts: If you were a third class passenger, your chance of survival was 25 percent

First class passengers had a 62 percent survival rate. Second class passengers had a 41 percent survival rate. The crew had a 24 percent survival rate.

Fun Fact: What happened to the iceberg?

Bonus: Images of the Titanic wreck made by stitching together hundreds of optical and sonar images collected by robots via Scientific American Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute, and National Geographic.

Image: April 16, 1912 edition of the New York Times.

bellemarianne:

prince—william:

Facial reconstruction of Queen Anne Boleyn by Emily Pooley.

This is the face that manipulated one of the most powerful men in the world.

She looks a bit like Carice van Houten/Melisandre, non?

(via elizabethwoodville)

shredsandpatches:

St. Valentine’s Day? Sounds pretty papist to me…

(via mirroir)

purpleapple317:

Leicester City Council have already been updating their signs.

I’m so obsessed with the story of scientists finally uncovering the remains of Richard III, and what it might mean for the rehabilitation of his image. The killing blow and subsequent humiliation his body underwent are incredibly gruesome.

His skeleton had suffered 10 injuries, including eight to the skull, at around the time of death. Two of the skull wounds were potentially fatal.

One was a “slice” removing a flap of bone, the other was caused by bladed weapon which went through and hit the opposite side of the skull - a depth of more than 10cm (4ins).

“In the case of the larger wound, if the blade had penetrated 7cm into the brain, which we cannot determine from the bones, death would have been instantaneous.”

Other wounds included slashes or stabs to the face and the side of the head. There was also evidence of “humiliation” injuries, including a pelvic wound likely to have been caused by an upward thrust of a weapon, through the buttock.

Richard III was portrayed as deformed by some Tudor historians and indeed the skeleton’s spine is badly curved, a condition known as scoliosis.

However, there was no trace of a withered arm or other abnormalities described in the more extreme characterisations of the king.

(via beyondhope)

maudelynn:

A boy sits reading in a bombed bookstore, London, October 8 1940

via http://www.theatlantic.com

(via interwar)

vanityfair:

Stephen Colbert Crosses the Delaware!

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz

(via interwar)

washingtonpoststyle:

In honor of International Women’s Day, a continuing series of women we love.

Ada Lovelace. Developing the field of computer science while wearing a corset. That’s what we call Steampunk.