"The Absinthe Drinker" is a stunning 1875-76 painting by Edgar Degas, displayed in Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
4. Doctors back in the day
5. The mirror's deception
6. Nothing to see here...
7. The job interview
8. Fact check: true
9. The Christmas Letter
10. Those people
11. Who's laughing now?
12. The magic of books
13. "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 1789
14. Good old days
15. So true.
BTW, this is "The Snowstorm", a wonderful 1786-87 painting by Francisco Goya.
16. No eye contact, no question
17. Misunderstandings
18. Please, just a sip
19. Generic excuse
20. The heroic dose
21. "You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention"
22. The unfaithful demon
23. Ooooo
24. What kind of monster uses a phone as a phone?
25. Women...
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Thread of historical photos you've (probably) never seen before 🧵
1. A Protestant husband and his Catholic wife were not allowed to be buried together. These are their headstones, reaching across the two cemeteries in 1888.
2. Jenny Joseph posing for Columbia Pictures Logo, 1992
3. Dresden viewed from the Rathaus (city hall) in 1945
Between 13 and 15 February, over 3,900 tons of explosives and incendiaries were dropped on Dresden.
The resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres of the city centre and killed up to 25,000 people.