Posts tagged ‘history’

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History behind the “Lion / sidecar / wall of death” photo

You may have seen this photo (at right) recently. Like many people, I'm sure, I found it incredible, difficult to believe, and inspiring. Just the act of sitting next to a lion takes a certain bravado. Even "tame" lions are caged---in fact, the last "lion drome" was closed after [...]

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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google." LIFE has released over 10 million images on a new hosted image service from Google and [...]

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Vintage Baseball Images

A collection of half a million digitized vintage images celebrating America’s National Game.

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