“…Because in every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the fluids that fill the muscles appears first in the highest part: The face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one.”

Sooo Ben Franklin was an advocate for the whole put a bag over their head tactic…

Don’t say history isn’t interesting.

Historical Figures in Doctor Who.

(via off-the-wall-geek)

I am at Fort Chaffee, AR today. Doing some research on the Cuban Refugee Crisis.

I feel like it was an appropriate paper to write on Thanksgiving break…

I’m looking for a good .gif of Caligula acting like a nut.  I was thinking of something like him dancing around in the rain in the movie buuuut it also kind of needs to be appropriate for a class presentation I’m doing.  Someone help a brother out.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Lauren Bacall and Harry S. Truman

I must have this.  And my girlfriend needs to learn to crochet it for me.

todaysdocument:

“THIS IS NOT A DRILL”

At 7:55 a.m. December 7, 1941, Japanese bombers and torpedo planes attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, catapulting the United States into World War II. In less than 2 hours, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was devastated, and more than 3,500 Americans were either killed or wounded.