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theweekmagazine:

Mitt Romney isn’t the first über rich presidential candidate. George Washington, who owned 8,000 acres of prime farmland, was “spectacularly wealthy,” says Dan Ackman at Forbes, and “would have made the Forbes 400 of his day.” His marriage to a wealth widow accounted for much of his fortune — estimated by 24/7 Wall Street at more than $500 million in today’s dollars. Incredible but true: “His salary was 2 percent of the total U.S. budget in 1789.” Super-wealthy presidential candidates: A slideshow

librar-y:

Italian Festa. Circa 1912 street festival in New York’s Little Italy.

Elsie, 15, and Rose Hendon with Mary Toovey and Jean Rayner, 14, in front of the Seven Feathers Club in Edenham Street, North Kensington. Ken Russell

In 1955, the fledgling photographer created a series called The Last of the Teddy Girls, which featured photographs taken against the war-torn backdrop of London’s East End. The images are one of the first reportage series to be made of British youth culture, presenting pictures of working class girls in Neo-Edwardian dress—a fascinating counterpoint to their drape-coated and drainpipe-wearing male counterparts the Teddy Boy. The Last of the Teddy Girls also provided a rare and unique glimpse of a little recognized and under-documented subculture of austere post war Britain.

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nevver:

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brittadictarnold:

brilliantinemortality | whizzbees:

“March 1919: The British airship R33 in its hangar as it prepares for its first ever flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire.”

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mudwerks:

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Being that nylons were not available during World War 2 the ladies resorted to painting their legs. Note in the background the tail of a DC-3. Santa Monica, 1943.View full size.

picturesofwar:

British and German soldiers exchanging cigarettes and other gifts during the Christmas Truce of 1914.

December 24-25, 1914 - 97 years ago this Christmas.

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sisterwolf:

Cadet Nurses

uncertaintimes:

A Nazi Christmas, 1941

antologia

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