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An old, light blue, horizontal paper bookmark from "Cody’s Books" lies flat on a textured, reddish-maroon surface below an open book.
Collinwood mansion. From tv show, Dark Shadows.
Image of a red World War I German triplane in flight on the box cover of the Avalon Hill board game, Richthofen's War, The Air War, 1916-1918.
My idols are dead and my enemies are in power. [slogan beneath a burning cigarette pointed toward the letters.]
Person dressed up as the Cookie Monster with an American flag taped to their sign that reads “me want cookies and rights”
Picture of an ice cream cone with eyes and tongue licking itself.
Kitty with a tracking device on her collar. Ad copy reads at top of image, "Anti-dropping device. Searching for things with one key."
Promo shot for the film Acidman.
$787.5 million. Fox paid Dominion for spreading falsehoods.
Image of an older man dressed in black amidst an abandoned farm scene.
Text of the Everett copy of President Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Photo of an ant mound where identically cut tiny leafs make up the mounding material. There is an entrance hold near the center of the mound.
Handwritten list of algebra topics, including side doodles
In order for knowing to be possible as determining by observation what is objectively present, there must first be a *defenciency* of having to do with the world and taking care of it. (Quote from Heidegger, Being and Time, page 61)
Cover for Bill Readings’ 1996 book, The University in Ruins.
Quote post, “How could I ever leave? Love it here.” Quoting post, “Kinda Snoozy.” Over the first poster’s article about “Literary Fiction” having a short life. Then responds to second poster, “fair!”