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2012: The Cube

Posted on July 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Artwork by Francesco Lorenzetti. I guessed at the date. (source) See more cubes here.

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2014: A Moroccan Man (1913)

Posted on July 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop stages his self-portraits as historical photographs—complete with “original” dates. The photo above, for example, is titled A Moroccan man (1913); the one to the left is Dom Nicolau (Circa. 1830–1860). Both are from his 2014 … Continue reading →

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1902: I Have in Me a Quite Unusual Intensity of Life

Posted on July 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

The opening of The Story of Mary MacLane: Butte, Montana January 13, 1901 I of womankind and of nineteen years, will now begin to set down as full and frank a Portrayal as I am able of myself, Mary Mac … Continue reading →

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2009: Fool’s Gold

Posted on July 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Square pyrite cube flickr Geological Curators’ Group http://tinyurl.com/hwyxrfn

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1865: John Wilkes Booth Shot Me!

Posted on July 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

In a letter published in the April 1910 issue of The Journal of Psychical Research, a woman named Ella Hughes recalled a childhood connection to John Wilkes Booth and a strange dream of her mother’s at the time of Lincoln’s … Continue reading →

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1956: I’m Putting My Queer Shoulder to the Wheel

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb … Continue reading →

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1964: I Haven’t Lost the Faith

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

MLK preaches on July 4, 1965, two years after the March on Washington: About two years ago now, I stood with many of you who stood there in person and all of you who were there in spirit before the … Continue reading →

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1854: A Train of Terrible Miseries

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

It may appear to those whom I have the honor to address a singular taste for me, an Indian, to take an interest in the triumphal days of a people who occupy, by conquest or have usurped, the possessions of … Continue reading →

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1852: What, to the Slave

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, … Continue reading →

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2012: The Birds

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

stuntkid: The Birds (2012) (source)

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