"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?"
Sandi Toksvig (via oddcombination)
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The family photo that Charlie Duke left on the Moon on April 23, 1972, NASA.
(Source: invaderxan, via slumscape)
Pablo Picasso and Brigitte Bardot at his studio in Vallauris during the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
The Ninth Wave, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850
