Grand Central, NYC 1929 Its not possible anymore to take such photograph, as the buildings outside block the sun rays.

“Seeing the universe from a magic cloud.”  The First Book of the Earth. 1936.

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Night of Terror (1933) dir. Benjamin Stoloff

2024 April 26

Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Markus Horn

Explanation: In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of view. A mere 79 light-years distant, Regulus is a hot, rapidly spinning star that is known to be part of a multiple star system. Not quite lost in the glare, the fuzzy patch just below Regulus is diffuse starlight from small galaxy Leo I. Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a member of the Local Group of galaxies dominated by our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). About 800 thousand light-years away, Leo I is thought to be the most distant of the known small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. But dwarf galaxy Leo I has shown evidence of a supermassive black hole at its center, comparable in mass to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

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Legend of the Witches (Malcolm Leigh, 1970)

Mark Mawson

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Evelyn McHale ~ “The Most Beautiful Suicide”, 1947

This powerful photo taken by Robert C. Wiles was published as a full-page image in the 12 May 1947 issue of Life Magazine. It ran with the caption: “At the bottom of the Empire State Building the body of Evelyn McHale reposes calmly in grotesque bier, her falling body punched into the top of a car”. Evelyn McHale is probably the most famous Empire State Building suicide victim. The young and pretty Evelyn leaped from the 86th-floor observatory in 1947 and landed on the roof of a United Nations limousine parked on the street below. Her calmly elegant demeanor, her legs crossed at the ankles, the way the car’s metal folded like sheets and framed her head and arms—perhaps these were the reasons that McHale’s death was given its title as “the most beautiful suicide.” When she died, she was still wearing her pearls and white gloves.

ENRIQUE BADULESCU | MUGLER 20 ANS APRES | VOGUE PARIS N° 758 | JULY 1995 | STRIP-PROJECT | SEPTEMBER 2020