GeekySisyphus

Bad quality but love this picture of Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell

Warren Spahn going in to his windup, 1957. Spahn won his only Cy Young and helped the Braves win the World Series this season.

SS Normandie capsized and burning in the Hudson River, NY. (1942).

Bonnie Parker's gravestone is inscribed with, "As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you."

May 4, 1878: Thomas Edison's phonograph was shown for the first time at the Grand Opera House in New York City.

🌼 Daisy - Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games

Queen Victoria photobombing her son's wedding photo by sitting between them wearing full mourning dress and staring at a bust of her dead husband, 1863

Andrew Jackson was the first sitting US president to ride on a railroad train.

Sonic Adventure 2 ad from 2001

In Japan, every November, parents dress their 3, 5, and 7-year-olds in tiny kimonos and take them to a shrine. It's called Shichi-Go-San. "Seven-Five-Three." It looks adorable. The origin is darker. For most of Japanese history, child mortality was so high that reaching age 7 wasn't guaranteed. So families created a ritual to thank the gods every time a child survived — at 3, at 5, and at 7. There's an old Japanese saying: "Until 7, a child belongs to the gods." It meant a child wasn't fully of this world yet — they could be taken back at any time. At the shrine, children receive a piece of candy called chitose ame — "thousand-year candy." Up to 1 meter long. Red and white. Packaged in a bag decorated with cranes and turtles, animals symbolizing 1,000- and 10,000-year lifespans. A wish, hardened into sugar: "May this child live a thousand years." Japan has been giving children this candy for over 300 years. Even now that children rarely die young, they still hand it out. Every November.

Leonardo da Vinci passed away today in 1519 at the age of 67.

The US used to sell tickets to nuclear weapons tests like it was a spectator sport. 1957.

🌼 Daisy - Super Mario Bros. Wonder

I’m the dad of a handsome baby boy!

Fun Fact Looney Tunes predicted this before it actually happened

Matt Olson crushes his 5th homer of the season!

Bonnie & Clyde had more than a dozen guns and several thousand rounds of ammunition in the Ford, including 100 20-round BAR magazines when killed

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at home with baby Stephen, 1949.

America 250. 🇺🇸⚓️🇺🇸

@EchoesofWarYT It’s such a wildly stupid take. Most soldiers, in any war, are not cowards. How can cowards willingly decide to run towards enemy gunfire?

Confederate soldiers were anything but cowards you imbecile, and I say that as someone whose ancestors fought for the Union