Athanor

Rasputin

naked Russian children
Houdini
In The Master Mystery
Weird Tales April 1924
gazing into a gazing ball
in the box

Tent of the nomadic Kirghiz. Golodnaia Steppe

General view of the Bibi-Khanym mosque from Shakh-i Zindeh. Samarkand

Prokudin-Gorskii

tomorrow - Modjeska

and there were birds in those trees, as well

Matisse in the studio

"... with my boots on..."
Hoggart's aunt gave him elocution lessons because he couldn't pronounce his Rs or Ls. When he arrived he was quickly taken up by Professor Bonamy Dobree, then a young lecturer and fringe member of the Woolf and Lawrence literary circles...

Profile of Richard Hoggart at the Guardian UK Feb.07.04

ilhan Akidil's MP3 page of Old Tatar Songs
22. Kara Orman
again
and again

Valentine's Day Lore and Traditions

Hazel Dickens

Hazel and Alice

It took so long to remember just what happened.
I was so young and vestal then,
you know it hurt me,
but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
I've got my hands bound,
my head down...

Prison Sex
Undertow
maynard james keenan
Tool
"tool"

Ponca Sun Dance 1894

photogravure of Leo Tolstoi

Vinnie Ream Hoxie
again
-
Vinnie Ream (Hoxie)
-
later in life
at the harp

A Digger Indian Family
-
Place Where They Burnt the Digger

The jugglers leave town

Honoré Daumier

"O Deutschland, bleiche Mutter!"

Die Ankläger des imperialistischen Deutschlands

Lea Grundig-Langer

Autumn
Hans Grundig
-
In German it's "Herbst". Autumn.
There were gas stations when I was younger called "Terrible Herbst". It was cheap gas, the ancestor service of today's mini-market no-frills. Terrible Autumn gasoline.

The Famous Youth
Rene Magritte