Duke is ranked among the top universities in the United States and in the world by major publications. The undergraduate admissions are among the most selective in the country.
I wonder if it's a university for gendercons?
Five woMEN at Duke, 1976
Terry Sanford and Students, Duke University early 1980s
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Delia Chamberlin is crowned 1961 Homecoming Queen by Jack Wilson, football team captain.
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Perkins Library, Exhibit Space and First Floor, Duke University, April 1984
The Strange Obsession with Pig-Faced Ladies in Regency London 🐷 1/ In 1815, amidst the celebrations of Britain's victory over Napoleon, Londoners became captivated by a bizarre urban legend: the Pig-Faced Lady. But where did this fascination come from?
2/ Belief in witchcraft was widespread, leading to assumptions that such afflictions were caused by curses. One story tells of a pregnant woman who refused to give money to a beggar, resulting in the vagrant cursing her, causing her female child to be born with a pig’s head.
3/ One of the earliest examples is Tannakin Skinker, a wealthy Dutch woman cursed with a pig's face. Her story was popularised through ballads and chapbooks, blending folklore with moral lessons about kindness and charity.
Photos that depict the interior of a Rococo period Pullman train car. 1800s
Original owners of Pullman Palacecars were EF Hutton and the Vanderbilt's had at least 3 of them, Harry, Willie, and Alice had one of their own... cattle barons bought them too.
The most famous stock holders of the Pullman company were JJ Astor, Ellen Banker, Chauncey Depew, Jay Gould, Julia Grant, John Hay, Henry Morgan, J Pierpont Morgan, JD Rockefeller, and the Vanderbilts.
Lillie Langtry (1853 – 1929) was a highly successful British actress, a renowned beauty, and socialite of the late 19th century. She was notorious for her long list of prominent suitors, which included the future King of England, Edward VII.
Lillie Langtry as Cleopatra 1895
Lillie as a young girl in the 1860s with her mother and father and an elder brother.
By the 19th century Bombay underwent an ambitious phase of building resulting in some of the finest architecture in Asia
British architects have been given credit in our historical narrative for the incredible creativity & skill of an advanced civilisation of master builders.
The Alexandra Native Girls' English Institution in Bombay 1890
According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India there were 134 secondary & 1,760 primary girls' schools in 1871.
Institutions used to indoctrinate children with the fake narrative, teach new, languages, new history.
A view of the village surrounding the Walkeshwar Temple in Bombay 1860