Atlas for The Blind 1837
The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps in this extraordinary atlas were embossed heavy paper with letters, lines, and symbols. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first atlas produced for the blind to read without the assistance of a sighted person. Braille was invented by 1825, but was not widely used until later… Read More
stripper in Clearwater, FLA showing the judge that her bikini briefs were too large to expose her vagina to the undercover cops that arrested her. the case was dimissed.
Sometimes I think about Michelle Obama, the formidable woman who went from growing up blue collar on the South Side of Chicago to excelling at Princeton and then Harvard Law, the woman who has probably had to work harder to get where she is than a lot of people in her tax bracket, the intellectual force to be reckoned with.
And now she’s the First Lady, so she can’t be professionally kickass anymore, she must become America’s Mom, making crepes so Kelly Ripa and Al Roker can take awkward pictures before the Easter Egg Roll.
I wonder if she ever gets bored or frustrated in the ways that the role of First Lady limits her, or has at least interrupted her trajectory, or if she’s just pissed those network clowns are getting their slobber all over that delicious crepe.
Don’t let this photo scare you. The Suri girls in the village of Tulgit cut themselves with thorns and razors so they scar in these patterns. These scars are considered attractive and many girls desire individual designs.
Some people might consider this horrifying just as some people consider inserting silicon inside a person as horrifying. Every culture has a different perception of beauty, but regardless of it all beauty is pain.
