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#OnThisDay in 1968, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs The Civil Rights Act of 1968.

Photo: President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, James Farmer, 18 January 1964.
This replica of the Oval Office on the 10th floor of the LBJ Library duplicates President Johnson's office in the White House at 7/8th scale.

The office looks exactly as it did during Johnson's Presidency.
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Audrey Hepburn.

“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
Greta Garbo.

"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."
Hattie McDaniel.

"I've learned by livin' and watchin' that there is only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the seat of the pants."
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Andrea Bocelli ao vivo na Catedral de Milão. Esse é o tweet.

(E essa sou eu chorando pelo resto do dia)
Aqui:
eu to surtando, Brasil.
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This is one of my all-time favorite photographs. Taken by George Tames in 1961, the New York Times christened it, “The loneliest job in the world.”

Tames remembered: “President Kennedy’s back was broken during the war, when that torpedo boat of his was hit by the Japanese...
... destroyer. As a result of that injury he wore a brace on his back most of his life. Quite a few people didn’t realize that. Also he could never sit for any length of time, more than thirty or forty minutes in a chair without having to get up and walk around.
Particularly when it felt bad he had a habit, in the House, and the Senate, and into the Presidency, of carrying his weight on his shoulders, literally, by leaning over a desk, putting down his palms out flat, and leaning over...
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