Louis Braille, the inventor of braille, was blinded at 5 and finished designing braille by the time he was 15. The system has virtually remained unchanged 200 years since.
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Soldiers in the German Army are allowed to disobey any order they think would violate human dignity.
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Thomas Jefferson’s sixth great grandson recreates his photo
And how bout that! 😅
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And how bout that! 😅
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For decades, Vivian Maier wandered around New York and Chicago, surreptitiously taking tens of thousands of photographs of people and scenes she encountered on the street. But her photography was unknown until 2007, two years before her death, when she fell behind on payments for a storage locker and the belongings inside were auctioned off.
She worked as a professional nanny for more than 40 years, during which she secretly took more than 150,000 photographs. She often took the children she cared for on “shooting safaris,” which involved wandering around on the streets, often through poor neighborhoods, while wearing “funny, old-fashioned” clothes
In 2007, Chicago real estate agent John Maloof bought one of those lockers, fell in love with the photographs inside and began a lengthy quest to learn more about Maier.
He then set up a website to show off her pictures:
• http://www.vivianmaier.com/
I promise you'll love it. 💜
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She worked as a professional nanny for more than 40 years, during which she secretly took more than 150,000 photographs. She often took the children she cared for on “shooting safaris,” which involved wandering around on the streets, often through poor neighborhoods, while wearing “funny, old-fashioned” clothes
In 2007, Chicago real estate agent John Maloof bought one of those lockers, fell in love with the photographs inside and began a lengthy quest to learn more about Maier.
He then set up a website to show off her pictures:
• http://www.vivianmaier.com/
I promise you'll love it. 💜
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Victor Noir was journalist who got shot dead. His grave has a full-sized statue of him as if he was just shot. The statue became a fertility symbol - the story says those who kiss the statue and rub the genital area will find themselves with enhanced fertility, great sex life or find a husband within one year.
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