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Marina Amaral

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26 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read

Just in... Prints, puzzles, cards and more:

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Everyone in this picture is now dead.

Thought you should know

Do not tell me that I am the only person on the planet who thinks about how many different people have stepped on the same place I am standing on, especially when I visit historical sites

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Marina Amaral

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28 Oct

M7 Priest, 2nd Armored Division, at the intersection of Holgate Street and the Paris-Cherbourg Railway.

June 18, 1944, Carentan.

The exact same spot today.

Courtesy of Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / National Archives USA.

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Marina Amaral

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28 Oct

Found this video completely by accident, but I know you'll love it too. His facial expressions are the best.

I love and want to be friends with him

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Marina Amaral

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27 Oct

Ota Benga was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo. Benga had been purchased from African slave traders. He tried to return to Africa, with no success.

Benga fell into depression and committed suicide in 1916.

When Benga, a teenager, returned from an elephant hunt in Congo, he found that his entire family and village had been slaughtered by Force Publique, the private army of King Leopold created to enforce rubber production quotas.

He was kidnapped by slave traders and put to work.

In 1904, Benga was "freed" by an American missionary and amateur anthropologist Samuel Phillips Verner who was under contract from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to bring back pygmies to be part of a human exhibition at the fair.

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26 Oct

I'm not freaking out, you are freaking out

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Marina Amaral

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26 Oct

“Asbury Park's Casino housed amusements like video poker and dark rides similar to those across the street at Palace Amusements.

In the 2000s, the Casino suffered the same demolition by neglect that was one of the factors in the destruction of Palace Amusements.“