gdfalksen:

Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.

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gokngo:

A 1927 Paramount Studio map of California suggesting locations where movies could be shot, instead of going to the actual places.

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reelbrains:

Oh snap.

lol damn 

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punch-in-the-face-poetry:

“Haiku #5,” Jill Scott

I hear them say it
Cuss words ain’t for no lady
But sometimes shit’s real.

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[Ian McEwan] recalls, while researching Atonement, how he came across a letter in the Imperial War Museum from a young lieutenant to his fiancee written as his company was withdrawing from Belgium and all of France seemed on fire.

‘He wrote, “This is the end of civilisation. I don’t see how we are ever going to get out of this.” He’d just seen 20 or 30 orphans lying on the ground, killed by the shelling of the city centre. In a letter sent by the very last post available, he told her to go and see his father and borrow 80 guineas and buy the house they had seen. He said “only ordinariness will save us”.

‘It was a sort of proposal of marriage and reading that I thought something of my own parents and their generation – they seemed so timid and boring in their love of ordinariness and domestic life and simple things. That was why they went on about the new colour TV or the car they polished every Sunday, the regular unthreatening life. They’d seen things we’d never seen.’

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kittje:

gible playing ipad games.

ohhh my god this is the most adorable thing in the world

mizjenkins:

Eve Arnold
School for black civil rights activists; young girl being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face
Virginia, 1960

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certifiedhottie:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

okay i’m like 90% sure amir wrote this omg hahahahaha

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sylvirawr:

YES. Nancy is a fucking moron tbh.

I love this. Heylia ilu. I forgot how good this show was before they fucked it all up. 

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