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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

northernbriton: aminorpoetofthegreekanthology: British WWI art nouveau propaganda poster. Damn Germans and their dragons. Published: London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915.

northernbriton:

aminorpoetofthegreekanthology:

British WWI art nouveau propaganda poster.

Damn Germans and their dragons.

Published: London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915.

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pungoeshere:

riot-of-flowers:

jaideputa:

tengan mas cuidado con las mojas cauros

Nun jitsu

Nun chaku

Nun something that makes a pun

THE 11TH COMMANDMENT IS PAIN!!!

The power of Christ compels you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUQFX_IydG8&feature=youtu.be

(Source: arteminem)

yochanah: A medal depicting the symbolical head; the obverse and reverse delineate the thirty-five phrenological faculties as conceived by J. G. Spurzheim. From the Storer Memorial Collection of Medical Medals  

yochanah:

A medal depicting the symbolical head; the obverse and reverse delineate the thirty-five phrenological faculties as conceived by J. G. Spurzheim.

From the Storer Memorial Collection of Medical Medals

 

questionableadvice: ~ The Spinster Book, by Myrtle Reed, 1901 If the phrenologists do not know - then nobody knows.

questionableadvice:

~ The Spinster Book, by Myrtle Reed, 1901

If the phrenologists do not know - then nobody knows.

questionableadvice: thedailyvictorian: “The Lady at the Phone,” cereal advertisements, Delineator, July 1905“Health & Strength in Every Shred”

questionableadvice:

thedailyvictorian:

“The Lady at the Phone,” cereal advertisements, Delineator, July 1905



“Health & Strength in Every Shred”
vcrfl: fearofgravity: Jessica Stam for Harper’s Bazaar US August 2010 by Alexi Lubomirski. She is posing on the Plaza de España in Seville, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.

vcrfl:

fearofgravity:

Jessica Stam for Harper’s Bazaar US August 2010 by Alexi Lubomirski.

She is posing on the Plaza de España in Seville, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.

(Source: fashiongonerogue.com)

alfsaga: “A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”  ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

alfsaga:

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.” 

― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
necspenecmetu: Carstian Luyckx, Allegory of Charles I of England and Henrietta of France in a Vanitas Still Life, 17th century

necspenecmetu:

Carstian Luyckx, Allegory of Charles I of England and Henrietta of France in a Vanitas Still Life, 17th century

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Bastien Bonizec and Sarah Seewer in Amish chic.

Bastien Bonizec and Sarah Seewer in Amish chic.

(Source: rafsemen, via perstephsanscouronne)

atompunk: Is this tomorrow : Australia under Communism (Melbourne, Australian Constitutional League [1949?]) This comic is based on one published in America in full colour in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society of St. Paul, Minnesota; the Australian version is black and white, with a colour cover. There was even a French-Canadian version, A quand notre tour? The Australian version is adapted to local conditions, e.g. references to “Congress” are replaced by “Parliament.” The opening scene even shows Parliament House in Canberra with hammer and sickle flags. It is a truly chilling scenario beginning with strikes on the coal-fields, a feature of the Australian mining industry in the post-war period. The Communist Party plans to “engineer a total crisis”. The Minister for Home Affairs backs a proposal made by the Communists through a front organisation against “intolerance”, and the Prime Minister and his deputy are assassinated. The puppet minister is placed in charge, with the head of the Communist Party as his adviser. Elections are then changed to the “European model” with the Communist Party as the only party on the ballot paper. All dissent is brutally quashed and the Church, universities and schools are undermined. Children begin to inform on their parents and the comic ends with the CPA leader dying but the system continuing. His successor tells the press that “Communism does not depend on any one man. It is a form of government which will rule the world.” from Monash University Library

atompunk:

Is this tomorrow : Australia under Communism (Melbourne, Australian Constitutional League [1949?])

This comic is based on one published in America in full colour in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society of St. Paul, Minnesota; the Australian version is black and white, with a colour cover. There was even a French-Canadian version, A quand notre tour? The Australian version is adapted to local conditions, e.g. references to “Congress” are replaced by “Parliament.” The opening scene even shows Parliament House in Canberra with hammer and sickle flags.

It is a truly chilling scenario beginning with strikes on the coal-fields, a feature of the Australian mining industry in the post-war period. The Communist Party plans to “engineer a total crisis”. The Minister for Home Affairs backs a proposal made by the Communists through a front organisation against “intolerance”, and the Prime Minister and his deputy are assassinated. The puppet minister is placed in charge, with the head of the Communist Party as his adviser. Elections are then changed to the “European model” with the Communist Party as the only party on the ballot paper. All dissent is brutally quashed and the Church, universities and schools are undermined. Children begin to inform on their parents and the comic ends with the CPA leader dying but the system continuing. His successor tells the press that “Communism does not depend on any one man. It is a form of government which will rule the world.”

from Monash University Library