Over 100 years ago, Albert Kahn undertook a massive photography project that became known as The Archives of the Planet.
Sending photographers to every continent, Kahn aimed to collect colour snapshots using a brand new technology known as the Autochrome Lumiere.

Kahn commissioned 4 photographers to collect images set specifically in cosmopolitan Paris. They utilised pioneering technology that employed colour filters made from microscopic grains of dyed potato starch.

The artists began documenting the city in 1914, just days before the outbreak of World War I.

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SalikaJasmin

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Sep 23

The organ of St Suplice, Paris

Hear the organ being played.

Many believe organ pipes were used for healing your inner organs with vibrations and frequency, repairing the structure of your cells. What we call churches were believed to be ancient healing stations. Most of the healing systems have been taken down and devices removed.

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SalikaJasmin

@DavisSalika

Sep 23

Let's take a look inside the Galerie des Machines (Gallery of Machines) at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
The Gallery had the largest open floor area of any building ever made. It was a quarter mile long and 460 feet wide. Destroyed in 1910.
We were the Finders not the builders.

Into this great building was poured the heavy power technology of the late 19th century: engines, dynamos, transformers. It was all lit by the new electric lights, now only seven years old. Huge traveling walkways carried passengers overhead so they could gaze down on all this.

Among all the devices we see many church-like models, arrays, sticks and other objects that have mini-domes. Don't they look similar to what was once on the Eiffel tower?

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SalikaJasmin

@DavisSalika

Sep 22

The narrative says this is an almshouse built by Sultan Mahmut I, & was a public soup-kitchen that would distribute food for the helpless. The entrance was used by the Sultans when they came from Topkapi Palace to Hagia Sophia.

This a machine, not a soup-kitchen. People will beleive anything you tell them. Look at the atmospheric energy collection devices and resonance domes.

The Almshouse (😆) Hagia Sophia

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SalikaJasmin

@DavisSalika

Sep 21

Edith La Sylphe ~ invented the “Sylphide”corset, making the very unhealthy ‘snake silhouette’ popular. c.1900.

Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (1883-1968), mostly known as La Sylphe, was an exotic American dancer who became a sensation while performing at the Folies Bergère in the 1890s.

Edith was taken abroad by her mother at the age of 6 when she began to dance. United States laws prevented her from performing on stage as a young girl. She travelled for 8 years, making two trips around the world.

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