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Permalink vintagenational: Photo by Maynard Owen Williams. From “Paris Lives Again,” National Geographic, December, 1946. Statues and Children Frame the Eiffel Tower and Its Watery Image When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point. Last March the Americans gave it back to the French. Completed in 1889 for the Universal Exhibition, the 984-foot structure was the world’s tallest until 1929, when New York City erected the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. Statues stand beside the Museum of French Monuments at the Place du Trocadéro.
Permalink vivipiuomeno: Francesca Woodman, Untitled, 1975-78
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Permalink Ginger Rogers & Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933) 
Permalink toni-tan: taylorthelatteboy: Just a pool, disguised as a pond, with a trampoline instead of a diving board Holy fuck! I wrote a paper about these kinds of pools several years ago for a class when they were just prototypes. These pools have a natural filtration system that run based on the plants that are in the pool that give the water nutrients that allow it to not only be crystal clear, but you are also able to drink the water because it becomes so clean. And the best part is that once the initial filtration system is installed and calibrated, it maintains itself and eliminates the need for chlorine or constant maintenance like salt water pools.  I want one