July 20, 1969. “Contact light, engine stop.” The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base on the Moon.
A few hours later, Neil Armstrong and I stepped foot on the Moon, with Michael Collins orbiting close-by.
An achievement resulting from years of
Cameras paid attention to his hands and he may have been playing to them.
Josef Hofmann plays Beethoven Op. 73 - Mov. III Rondo
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The golden sunlight in this autochrome is absolutely spectacular! I have cleaned up this remarkable photograph of three ladies of Lyon, picking fruit during the Golden Hour, 115 years ago. It was taken by Professor Fernand Arloing in 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.
Tondo from the Coupe Ă l'oiseleur ("Birdcatcher Cup"), an Ionian black-figure kylix, ca. 550 BC, depicting birds, a grasshopper, a snake, and a central figure among lush vegetation. Currently housed in the Louvre Museum.
This has been enduring phenomenon.
Austrian Sigismund von Herberstein, in his 16th c. Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii, on household relations:
“With servants it is as I told earlier of the wife: they think their master does not love them if they go unthrashed.”