February 2012
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Atlanta History Center: Civil War Sweetheart Pin →
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One of my favorite artifacts at the Atlanta History Center is a small pin in the Turning Point: The American Civil War exhibition. It’s probably also one of the most overlooked artifacts at the AHC. But even though the pin is small, the story is remarkable.
The pin was actually made from the bone of a soldier’s own amputated leg. The soldier inscribed the name of his sweetheart, Lizzie, on the pin, but he passed away before he could tell the nurse who Lizzie was. The nurse, Abigail Arline, of Albany, GA, kept the pin. To this day, the identity of Lizzie remains a mystery.
To see this artifact in person, visit Turning Point: The American Civil War at the Atlanta History Center. Learn about the Civil War 150th.
Wait In A Line
Now It's Overhead
Now It’s Overhead - Wait in a Line
mmmm…drums.
Really, tumblr? I still can’t respond to comments? How is this not a thing yet.
Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
(Another song on frequent rotation.)
The new Of Montreal album track list, probably:
1. Angelic Anglicans of Modest Redundancy
2. The Sinister Hydrangea
3. Seismic Paralysis For Roberta Parachute
4. Ricotttutura Presentides Vacillating Vicissitude
5. Beyond! The Pale Palahniuk
6. Robosexual Rouses the Infinite
7. Semicircular Abberations of Fallic Peonies
8. Polymorphic Postlewaite
9. Ladywhite Allagash Is Kind of Inspired
10. A Noise Annoys an Oyster (Bonus Track)
(thanks to Russ, Marley, Lucy and WHO AM I MISSING HERE, GUYS?)
“The cat’s pajamas” is first recorded in 1920 as part of the typical vocabulary of Jazz Age flappers and was soon popularized by cartoonist Tad Dorgan in his comic strip Indoor Sports. It’s just one of dozens of nonsense phrases combining an animal with a part of the human body or an article of clothing that the cool kids used in those days. Here are others: the duck’s quack, bee’s knees, elephant’s wrist, eel’s ankles, elephant’s arches, bullfrog’s beard, and leopard’s stripes.
via Mental Floss
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Are You That Somebody // Aaliyah
This, on repeat. Always.
Dear Coke Talk: On fun-sized advice. →
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Will Prozac help my bulimia?
Not if you throw it up.
