Silence of the Lambs
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The Police Blotter Atherton, CA Where The Average Home Price is $7,532,795
19 Times Architecture Made the World a Friendlier Place
Wheelchair friendly sandboxes
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Whatever Happened to Kristin Holby from ‘Trading Places’?
Let’s be honest: you probably don’t remember Kristin Holby’s name. But you remember the face—cool, elegant, framed by that impossibly perfect 1980s hair, moving through Trading Places with the detached ease of someone who never expected life to be anything but smooth. She was Penelope Witherspoon: the fiancée, the status symbol, the kind of person you only ever see at fundraisers and on the cover of old Town & Country magazines your parents left in the attic.
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5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Bread and soup during the Great Depression
What you’re seeing here is a snapshot of hunger—not the gnawing you get when you skip lunch, but a slow, humiliating starvation that cuts at pride and dignity. Four men, maybe more behind them, hunched at a counter. Their faces are weathered, their hats battered, their eyes hollowed out by fatigue. They’re eating bread and soup, the kind that’s stretched thin so everyone gets a little, but no one ever gets enough.
16 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
A man holding his daily ration of food (125 grams of bread, of which 50–60% consisted of sawdust) during the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944
More civilians died of starvation, cold and disease in the first few months of the siege than all the US Military deaths in all theaters of the war.
Total US military deaths from all causes: 407,000
Total number of dead from the beginning of the siege, September ’41, to December ’41: 780,000, almost entirely civilian deaths.
And the siege lasted 900 days. Out of a population of around 3.5 million civilians, 400,000 survived in the city.
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Let’s Take A Stroll Through The Art Museum
René Magritte – Not to Be Reproduced (1937)
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24 Proofs That Awkward Phases Don’t Last Forever
Ever look back at your old yearbook photos and wonder how you ever survived middle school? You’re not alone. We all have that one awkward phase—braces, bad haircuts, questionable fashion choices—that makes us cringe a little (or a lot). But some people’s transformations are so jaw-dropping, you’d barely recognize them now.
Here are 24 people who once felt like the odd one out—the so-called “ugly ducklings”—but with a little help from time, confidence, and maybe a good haircut, they turned into absolute swans. Get ready for some seriously satisfying glow-ups that prove awkward phases don’t last forever.
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27 Throwback Photos Every ’80s and ’90s Kid Will Recognize
There Are Some Things You Just Can’t Argue With
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11 Unforgettable Moments When Sitcoms Got Serious
If you grew up watching sitcoms, you probably have a weird, inexplicable ability to recall the theme song to Family Matters with more accuracy than your own Social Security number. You can picture the geometry of Monica’s apartment better than the layout of your first real job. But there’s something that doesn’t quite fit the laugh track—those moments when the show stops being about who ate the last slice of pizza and starts asking what it actually means to be alive, or at least alive within 23 minutes and a couple of ad breaks.
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