“Stanley Kubrick laughing maniacally in front of the burned down set of The Shining.”
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RIP Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who became first to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 11, has died. He was 82 years old.
He was born in the small town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 1930.
On July 20, 1969, half a billion people — a sixth of the world’s population at the time — watched a ghostly black-and-white television image as Armstrong backed down the ladder of the lunar landing ship Eagle, planted his left foot on the moon’s surface, and said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Twenty minutes later his crewmate, Buzz Aldrin, joined him, and the world watched as the men spent the next two hours bounding around in the moon’s light gravity, taking rock samples, setting up experiments, and taking now-iconic photographs.
“Isn’t this fun?” Armstrong said over his radio link to Aldrin. The third member of the Apollo 11 crew, Michael L. Collins, orbited 60 miles overhead in the mission’s command ship, Columbia. President Richard Nixon called their eight-day trip to the moon “the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.”
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt Fishing at Camp David - 1943
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Fala Roosevelt in front of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s grave - 1949.
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Edward R. Murrow at work with CBS, 1957.
Gore Vidal
(October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)
Jimi Hendrix- The Star Spangled Banner (Live at Woodstock 1969)
Happy Independence Day!
