Bof sez, “Slightly warped illustrations of familiar animals during the Enlightenment by a forerunner of Darwin. The animals are put in contrived settings and their faces are made to look like they have human characteristics”

The plates below are fro…

Chris from National Geographic sez, “Boing Boing previously covered the time capsule mansion Maison Mantin, closed for a hundred years and re-opened as a museum. We just scored a bunch of photographs from inside the mansion and ran them on National Ge…

Spider-Man Pietà

via http://wemakeitgood.com/the-gallery/le-corbusier-life-magazine

LIFE this week released the photograph above of president John F. Kennedy stumping in Logan, WV—part of a collection of never-before-published images discussed at PBS.org. (Via Submitterator, thanks TCD004)

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Giovanni Piranesi was an 18th century Italian artist known primarily for his Carceri prints, 16 utterly baroque and fantastic prison scenes. However, he had an eye for gorgeous detail, and a group of modern artists has recreated several objects fou…

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Some of the Soviet’s toughest prison tattoos in a new London exhibit

A rare glimpse into the dark world of post-Soviet prison life, the London show “Russian Criminal Tattoos” features a series of photographs of prisoners and their artistic …

Fairfax County, VA’s Westfield High has a curious set of requirements in three of its AP History class:

“You are only allowed to use your OWN knowledge, your OWN class notes, class handouts, your OWN class homework, or The Earth and Its Peoples text…