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Post by Maggie on Feb 15, 2014 21:36:48 GMT -6
Click on picture to resize. Things I love: Cats!  
This lion has melanism, a recessive trait where the skin and fur are all black. It contrasts nicely with albinism.  
Birds! Especially woodpeckers. Who knew there were hundreds of varieties? 
Albino female cardinal 
Banded woodpecker  Cream-colored woodpecker  Japanese cranes I think I will post pictures of doors next time. |
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Post by Woodrow LI on Feb 15, 2014 23:17:38 GMT -6
Kittens can soften a hard heart.
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Post by Maggie on Feb 16, 2014 8:15:23 GMT -6
My weakness for kittens is well-known. But I also love birds, especially ducks and woodpeckers. And cranes. And cardinals. And ...
For my next offering I am going to post some interesting people. I have quite a collection of them.
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Post by Maggie on Feb 17, 2014 20:41:52 GMT -6
 This is Anne Frank before the war.  Two Babylonians. 
According to the pinner, this may be Horus found in a Temple of Seti I (died 1279 B.C.)  This very handsome man (in my opinion!) is a member of the Lakota. Maybe a relative of Woodrow? 
In 1913 it was possible and legal to mail children. This particular photo is posed, however. The government quickly put an end to the mailing of children. You can read about this all over the web-- try about.com for more. (http://history1900s.about.com/b/2008/06/26/sending-children-by-parcel-post.htm)  Young Lakota woman 
These three girls were part of a group of 8 former slaves sent to the North on a publicity tour to raise sympathy against slavery. One of the major reasons for the great success of this campaign was that four of the children were of mixed race.....but looked white. So much so that the Harper's Weekly ran a story on them titled" "Emancipated Slaves: White and Colored (This was pinned from the Black History Album (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackheritage/)  Janet Harmon Bragg, one of the first female African American aviators  Abraham Lincoln posing with Edgar Allen Poe in Matthew Brady's studio, 1849 
Every one has heard of this picture! This is the photo doctored by two teenagers purportedly hanging out with fairies in the back yard. Hey, it fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but he desperately wanted to believe. |
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Post by Woodrow LI on Feb 17, 2014 23:54:50 GMT -6
The Lakota man looks Familiar. Wouldn't be`related to me possibly to my wife. The picture looks like a reservation picture taken at Standing Rock after the First Massacre at Wounded Knee. His face reminds me of the haunted look I see on many of the pictures that were taken of Lakota captives that were put on display for the Tourists in the Early 1900s. His features are so much like Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk) in his Middle age I suspect the man in the picture is a relative of Black Elk. A young captured Chief Black Elk probably not long after the "Battle of the Little Big Horn" Custer's Last Stand. The pictures were sold to tourists. Black Elk could not write English. The picture seller most likely put the name on it.  In the 1930s as a tourist attraction at Pine Ridge and Standing Rock  In 1950 shortly before his death, still put on display as a tourist attraction   The Wichasha Wakan is Lakota and means roughly ??? Medicine Man. I know Wakan is Medicine man, not certain about Wichasha |
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