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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.

Tiger mauling my left shoulder a somewhat understated illustrative plate from How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India (1902), a small book by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield detailing his close brush with death by tiger. (HT Public Domain Review via Boing Boing)

Tiger mauling my left shoulder a somewhat understated illustrative plate from How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India (1902), a small book by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield detailing his close brush with death by tiger. (HT Public Domain Review via Boing Boing)

walzerjahrhundert:

Art Nouveau restaurant in Paris,France: “La Fermette Marbeuf”, originally created around 1898-1900 as the dining room of Hôtel Langham, then covered up when the style had become unfashionable.It was rediscovered by accident in 1978 and then restored to life.

(via theblacklacedandy)

thespacegoat: pasadoperdido: Houdini before his near fatal jump & escape from the icy water below the Queen Street bridge in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 18th, 1910. Houdini’s dive into the Yarra River, Feb 17th 1910

thespacegoat:

pasadoperdido:

Houdini before his near fatal jump & escape from the icy water below the Queen Street bridge in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 18th, 1910.

Houdini’s dive into the Yarra River, Feb 17th 1910

(via underwaterness)

I hate when people post interesting images without any explanation of what we are looking at. After two minutes of googling I found that the Images are of the Meigs Elevated Railway taken from Scientific American (July 10, 1886)

(Source: cloudcircus)

atompunk:

xoxopossumgirl:

Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Poison Ivy 

1964

books0977: Penning A Letter. George Goodwin Kilburne (English. 1839-1924). Oil on canvas. Kilburne was a London genre painter, watercolourist and engraver. His work is mostly genre set in 17th Century costume, or charming scenes of Victorian life. Many of his pictures became popular through prints.

books0977:

Penning A Letter. George Goodwin Kilburne (English. 1839-1924). Oil on canvas.

Kilburne was a London genre painter, watercolourist and engraver. His work is mostly genre set in 17th Century costume, or charming scenes of Victorian life. Many of his pictures became popular through prints.

jem4water:

Sort Of Dunno Nothin’ | Peter Denahy

How’ve you been? Good. How’s ya dog? Good. How’s college going? Good. All hunky dory? Yep. You going out tonight? Yep. You gonna see ya friends? Yep. You gonna have a good catch-up? Yep. Well that should be great! Yep. Where’d you go? Nowhere. Who’d you see? No one. What’d you do? Nothin’. Did ya have a good time? Yep. What’s on tonight? Nuthin’. You not seeing your mates? Nuh. You just staying at home? Yep. What’ll you do? Nothin’. Yep yep nothin’ nothin’ sort of dunno nowhere good.
Yep nuh dunno no one sort of dunno nothin’.

yippyyiyay:

John Williamson - Old Man Emu (1970)
John Williamson performing the hit single ‘Old Man Emu ’ (May, 1970).

Artist’s Origin: Quambatook, VIC, Australia
Track: Old Man Emu
Album: non album single
Composed By: John Williamson
Produced By:
Label: Fabel
Chart Position: # 3 (Australia)
Release Date: May, 1970

arkhangelskoye: Alexis Simon Belle, Louis François I de Bourbon, Prince of Conti

arkhangelskoye:

Alexis Simon Belle, Louis François I de Bourbon, Prince of Conti

russianmonarchist: 25 апреля исполнилось 85 лет со дня смерти генерала Петра Николаевича Врангеля (25 апреля 1928 г.). На фото: хоругвеносцы на могиле Врангеля в Белграде на Свято-Троицком подворье. 2002 г. On April 25, 2013 turned 85 years from the date of the death of General Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (April 25, 1928). On the photo: The Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers  Brothers on the grave of Wrangel in Belgrade at Holy Trinity metochion. 2002.

russianmonarchist:

25 апреля исполнилось 85 лет со дня смерти генерала Петра Николаевича Врангеля (25 апреля 1928 г.). На фото: хоругвеносцы на могиле Врангеля в Белграде на Свято-Троицком подворье. 2002 г.

On April 25, 2013 turned 85 years from the date of the death of General Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (April 25, 1928). On the photo: The Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers  Brothers on the grave of Wrangel in Belgrade at Holy Trinity metochion. 2002.