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marvin gaye 1971 Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (Marvin Gaye), April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984
Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984 …

David Cassidy with Arnold Schwarzenegger, H. Diltz, 1977

 Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger - Hercules in New York, 1970

Hercules in New York, 1970

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger, born July 30, 1947 is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman, and politician. Arnold Alois S. is currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. His 1970 Movie »Hercules in New York« sports a rather intriguing plot: Hercules a young brute is bored living in Olympus (the home of the great Greek gods) and decides to move to New York. Obviously, it is not easy for him – a man who lived in ancient Greece – to get used to modern life … But fortunately there is no problem that can´t be solved with a well placed brawl, some rough stuff and a little help from a college professor’s daughter …

11.03.2010 King Kong, 1933

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King Kong is a gigantic island-dwelling gorilla-like creature who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman (Fay Wray). Movie directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, written by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman, story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace.

Pieter de Ring - Still Life with a Golden Goblet - 1635-60

23.02.2010 Costume

Costume Costume

22.02.2010 Melvin Sokolsky

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21.02.2010 Lenny and Shirley

Ruth Orkin - Lenny-and-Shirley-in-Green-Room-of-Carnegie-Hall,-after-the-Israel-Philharmonic-Concert,-March-1951

20.02.2010 Charles Joseph Minard

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Des tableaux graphiques et des cartes figuratives (Paris, 1862)
via: http://www.edwardtufte.com

19.02.2010 Hares and Jackrabbits

Wayne Anderson, Valley of Peace, 1976John James Audubon - Northern Hare (Winter) - From the Imperial Folio edition of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Hand-colored stone lithograph by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1845Ferdinand Puigaudeau - Shadow Rabbits, 1895

18.02.2010 Best Friend

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