Search Results: “LOT 223” – Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Library of Congress.
Pictures of Union Station taken February 1943. This looks like an interesting resource.
“LOT 223” – Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Library of Congress
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The Tip Jar Shall be the Downfall of this Great Republic, Evidence from 2012 and 1916
From: The Capitalist; The Case Against Tipping
Tipping is an aristocratic conceit — “There you go, my good man, buy your starving family a loaf” — best left to an aristocratic age. The practicing democrat would rather be told what he owes right up front. Offensively rich people may delight in peeling off hundred-dollar bills and tossing them out to groveling servants. But no sane, well-adjusted human being cares to sit around and evaluate the performance of some beleaguered coffee vendor.
via The Tip Jar Shall be the Downfall of this Great Republic, Evidence from 2012 and 1916-.
We investigated the link between tipping, an altruistic act, and bribery, an immoral act. We found a positive relationship between these two seemingly unrelated behaviors, using archival cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita gross domestic product, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption.
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Elderly woman destroys 19th-century fresco with DIY restoration
Three separate photographs of “Ecce Homo” by painter Elias Garcia Martinez show extensive damage caused by an elderly woman who decided the masterpiece needed a little refurbishment.
via Elderly woman destroys 19th-century fresco with DIY restoration – Telegraph.
Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?
On this 100-year anniversary of the Stockholm Games, there are several good reasons for the IOC to relent and fully recognize Thorpe as the sole champion that he was. Countless white athletes abused the amateurism rules and played minor-league ball with impunity. What’s more, the IOC did not follow its own rules for disqualification: Any objection to Thorpe’s status should have been raised within 30 days of the Games, and it was not. It was nice of the IOC to award replica medals to Thorpe’s family, but those are just souvenirs. After 100 years of phantom contending, Thorpe should enter the record as the incomparable that he was.