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Salvador Dalí – Mysterious Mouth Appearing on My Nurse’s Back (1941)
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JFK’s Harvard Application Essay Is Only 5 Sentences Long
Why do you wish to come to Harvard?
The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a “Harvard man” is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.
April 23, 1935
John F. Kennedy
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Whatever Happened to Evanna Lynch, Harry Potter’s Luna Lovegood?
There’s a specific moment in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix where Luna Lovegood, draped in her ethereal eccentricity, looks at Harry and says, “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” It’s one of those lines that’s simple, profound, and entirely Luna. But what if we apply that to Luna herself—or more specifically, the actress who embodied her? What happened to Evanna Lynch, the quirky Irish teenager who walked out of obscurity and into the hearts of every Potterhead?
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Lets Take a Stroll Through The Art Museum
Lucas Cranach the Elder – Portrait of Princess Sibylle of Cleve (1526)
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‘This Movie Gets Worse Every Screening’: The Brutal Studio Notes That Almost Killed Blade Runner
There’s something inherently hilarious—and borderline tragic—about reading early studio notes for Blade Runner. You can feel the tension dripping off the page, a cocktail of confusion, frustration, and outright disdain for a movie they couldn’t wrap their heads around.
“This movie gets worse every screening,” one executive lamented, as though Blade Runner was some sort of recurring fever dream that kept getting more incomprehensible every time they revisited it. If it weren’t so funny, it’d be heartbreaking.
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Fascinating Photos Collected From History
South Vietnamese troops, joined by US advisers, rest after a tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Vietcong attack that did not come, January 1965.
The men sat in the hush of the jungle, their breaths shallow and measured, like animals knowing the predator watches from the dark. The South Vietnamese soldiers held their rifles loosely, the weight of their readiness sagging now in the absence of need.
A haze of cigarette smoke coiled upward into the humid blackness, dissipating among the branches like the hope of a clean fight. The Americans sat apart, their bulkier forms hunched against the damp earth, muttering low in a language alien to the trees and the men they trained. The jungle itself seemed to conspire in stillness, the chatter of birds and the clamor of insects held tight in the throat of night.
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Remember Young Jenny From Forrest Gump? See What Hanna Hall Is Up to Now
If you’ve ever spent an afternoon shouting “Run, Forrest, run!” at your friend during a pickup game of tag, then you already owe part of your childhood to Hanna Hall.
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