Who lived when?

Thread of the most beautiful bridges on Earth 1. Golden Bridge, Vietnam

Hotel Clair Cocktail Lounge Lake Geneva, WI

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome

Craziest looking rocks seen on Mars to date😳 A thread 🧵

That's how homeric epics were spread Sitia, Crete 🇬🇷 📽️x_karidis

Always charmed by this guy hidden in Irving Park any time I get the chance to pass it by. Might be my favorite courtyard building in town

I’m glad to see Valerie Martin is still publishing. I remember liking this collection when I read it in 1989. Creepy, unsettling. Good stuff.

Can’t put this down! Love a story with bums and antiheroes!

Time Capsule Tales The picture of an elderly Harriet Tubman, aged 90, always fascinated me. A tiny little woman of less than five feet tall, this brave soul rescued seventy people from slavery. In this final photograph taken of Tubman, she’s frail, and in near-constant pain. When she was a young

Ridiculously talented. Anton Raphael Mengs, self-portrait at the age of 12, 1740.

A thread of rare media of animals that are now extinct 1. Footage from 1933 of the last known surviving Thylacine, commonly called the Tasmanian Tiger. It died in 1936 in captivity in Tasmania.

The Writers' Museum, Edinburgh 📸:Ravikant Pandey

Bridgeport’s Ramova Theater is now a Chicago landmark. buff.ly/3MQedgP

The former Blytheville Arkansas Greyhound Terminal, built in 1937

This is what England looked like in 1945

The winners of the 2021 wildlife photography comedy awards🏆

Mary Wallace: First female bus driver for Chicago Transit Authority, 1974. She remained a bus driver for 33 years before retiring.

giant in the fog