Incredible shadow art by Kumi Yamashita
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Incredible shadow art by Kumi Yamashita
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“Top 10 Most Read Books in the World”. Visual News makes a bar chart to compare the top ten books in the world, based from a report from the website Squidoo. The infographic shows that 3.9 billion Bibles have been printed and the Bible is the most read book in the world.
“Desde el país que dio al mundo la cuerda de tender ropa giratoria, es decir Australia, tenemos (…) y desde el país que dio al mundo todo lo demás incluyendo Australia, es decir Inglaterra, tenemos (…)”

The Nazi Origins of the Olympic Flame Relay
The 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics were to be, according to Arnd Krüger and William J. Murray’s history of “The Nazi Games,” a means of furthering Hitler’s ethnic and nationalist messages, a tool of Nazi soft power. Few aspects of the bizarre and highly political ‘36 games exemplified Hitler’s propaganda mission better than the Olympic torch relay and ceremony. Though propagandists portrayed the torch relay as ancient tradition stretching back to the original Greek competitions, the event was in fact a Nazi invention, one typical of the Reich’s love of flashy ceremonies and historical allusions to the old empires. And it’s a tradition we still continue today, with this morning’s lighting of the flame in Olympia, the birthplace of the original games circa 776 B.C., from which it will be carried by a series of relay runners to the site of the games, in this case London.
Read more. [Image: AP]
Woah.
Vaya. Resulta que fue de los nazis la idea de restaurar la tradición griega de encender la antorcha en Olimpia y llevarla en relevos hasta la sede de los juegos (Berlín, 1936)
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RFK campaign poster, 1968
(vía retrocampaigns)
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“Lástima que el viejo Osama no haya podido ver esto. Le habría impresionado”. USA!
(vía randomactsofchaos)
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Máquinas de escribir que amaron algunos escritores
David Denby, el crítico musical de “New Yorker” hace una lista con la que considera las 10 mejores grabaciones de música clásica de la historia
(vía newyorker)
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Atardecer de primavera en la Via della Conciliazione