Inhabitants of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1926. The islands had been inhabited since antiquity, but would be evacuated in 1930. Big image, zoom in for detail. [5000 x 3737]3wk ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Lowland gorilla at Miami zoo uses sign language to tell someone that he's not allowed to be fed by visitors.4yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/aww
Brave baby tank pony protects its sedated mommy from wildlife veterinarians2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/aww
It isn't that we're too lazy to learn other languages, it's just unnecessary in even the most diverse cities here.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/memes
Young orangutans at rehab center are taught with toy cobra to be cautious around snakes4yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/aww
Baby elephant squares off with safari tourist van, then loses his nerve3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/aww
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/dankchristianmemes
MRW I open the work schedule, see that I was supposed to be at work two hours ago, and then see that I'm looking at the wrong day's schedule5yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/reactiongifs
It was the first time Lincoln's staff had ever seen him absolutely lose his temper.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Women's juvenile detention center, USSR, 1989 [Found on OldSchoolCool]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/AccidentalRenaissance
Quick thinking Colorado farmer cuts a firebreak through burning wheat field6yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/gifs
One big reason why workers in the skilled trades need a lot of patience2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/memes
A Roman toddler's footprint in a red clay tile, imprinted as it was drying ~2000 years ago. Vaison-la-Romaine (ancient Vasio Vocontiorum) [788x900]4yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Same as with McDonald's and Coca-Cola before it: First they denounce the new imported American abomination, then they can't get enough of it.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Under cover of darkness, Chinese University of Hong Kong removed the Goddess Of Democracy statue, which commemorates the Tiananmen Square Massacre2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/gifs
A lone lion charges a herd of buffalo and tackles one of them3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/natureismetal
When the ex breaks silence, asking how I've been, and complaining of being lonely and bored.5yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/blackpeoplegifs
Among the many things they don't teach you, the most important is humility.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/memes
True story: I was at work on 9/11 listening to the radio & surfing the news websites. Shortly after lunch this photoshopped image, or one very like it, appeared online. The only chuckle of that day. Reposting in correct format.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Fortunately, some pieces survive, scattered in various European museums.3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
A frontal view of the deep sea telescope fish. It's unusual for a fish, because it has front-facing eyes and thus binocular vision.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/natureismetal
Ashtrays and coin-operated televisions in the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal, 19694yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The burning of books and execution of scholars, all so that Chinese history would begin with him...2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Amazing example of convergent evolution: the thylacine and the dingo independently evolved the canid body plan to fill the same biological niche. Their last common ancestor lived during the Jurassic Period. The dingo is more closely related to you than it is to the thylacine.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Roman-era pool on the seashore in northern Israel, stone and cement. Possibly for trapping sea snails to be used for manufacturing dye. Photo by Michael Eisenberg via Archaeology magazine [710x473]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
When I keep closing the tab but it stays open and then I realize I've been mistakenly closing all the other tabs I wanted to keep open6yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/blackpeoplegifs
When you hear your notifications going off, but you left your phone downstairs.4yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/blackpeoplegifs
The town of Ellenton, South Carolina was razed to make way for the Savannah River Site, to manufacture components for nuclear weapons. One of the town's residents put up this roadside memorial at the city limits sign, 1950 [1024 x 818]1wk ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Roman glass bowl, c. 0-100 CE; Made by millefiori technique: slowly melting different-coloured glass rods, fusing them together, cutting them into discs, placing them in a mould and finally polishing them. In Thorvaldsen Museum, Denmark [6054 x 4812]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Interrupting someone's hyperfixation is hazardous to their mental health7mo ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/adhdmeme
Josephine Cogdell, age 19, as a pin-up girl for Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties, 1919.7mo ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Miguel Covarrubias wartime caricatures of Japanese leaders and types, Fortune magazine, 19422yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Bayard Wootten, 1910s, pioneering female documentary photographer, [766x1066]4yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
This sunken Brazilian research ship, 76-ft. Brazilian research vessel Mar Sem Fim (“Endless Sea”). Unfortunately the vessel would become stuck in the Antarctic ice and overcome by severe ice compression and strong winds.1yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/megalophobia
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald [1650x1275]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
This owl with eyes that are differently colored under infra-red light.4yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/misleadingthumbnails
The Old Defenders Of Baltimore, veterans of The War Of 1812 who had fought in the Battle of Baltimore, 1814. Photo taken 1880. [1808 x 881]2wk ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Annoying Facebook Girl does not understand cause and effect9yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/AdviceAnimals
Congratulations, you are being civilized. Please do not resist.3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
This will make a fine addition to my collection. -every invader for 1,000 years.1yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/2visegrad4you
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell [OC] [542x255]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists. ~G. K. Chesterton [OC] [1650 x 1275]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Ronda Rousey after seeing all the online mockery of her loss7yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/reactiongifs
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~Gian Vincenzo Gravina [1650 x 1275]2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” ~Leonard Bernstein [1650 x 615]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive. ~C. S. Lewis [OC] [1152 x 648]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
When school's on break and the kids stay up all night for two weeks7yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/blackpeoplegifs
How about just eating your daily bread and being grateful for it, you insufferable hipster foodie?9yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/pics
It's almost as if they don't regard Hamas' crimes as an altogether bad thing4mo ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/EnoughCommieSpam
A navigation hotline, where motorists could call and get directions, 19631yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. ~ C. S. Lewis [776x381]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
TFW the college accepts your teenager AND offers more financial aid than you were hoping for.7yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/blackpeoplegifs
This maned lioness, the feline equivalent of a bearded woman5yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/natureismetal
Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it. ~Leslie Whateley [1650 x 1275]2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Art Nouveau multi-gem choker from c. 1900 by Philippe Wolfers (1858-1929), a Belgian silversmith and jeweller. [1765 x 1103]2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. ~Raymond Chandler [OC] [1629 x 663]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
When you have a taste for exceptional people you always end up meeting them everywhere. -- Pierre Mac Orlan [1650 x 1275]2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
[1275 x 2100] Imaginary evil is romantic and varied, full of charm; imaginary good is tiresome and flat. Real evil, however, is dreary, monotonous, barren. Real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. ~ Simone Weil2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Captured Senegalese soldiers in service with the French army shortly before being massacred by the Germans at Chasselay near Lyon, 1940 [1280 x 760]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Even if you didn't have to Google it, you had to think about it, didn't you?3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/beatles
Cretoxyrhina mantelli shark breaching and nabbing Pteranodon, art by Mark Witton1yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Look how wide the extinct thylacine, or Tasmanian wolf, was able to open its mouth8yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/natureismetal
She should be better known and maybe more influential than Sartre or Camus.2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/PhilosophyMemes
“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. ~Kingsley Amis [OC] [1300 x 800]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Unknown Bahamian-American family, Key West, Florida, c. 19001yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/BlackHistoryPhotos
The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right. ~ G. K. Chesterton [860x530]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Ancient Attic Greek drinking cup in the shape of a dog's head, from the necropoli di Celle at Falerii (4th c BCE) [535 x 480]5yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Gold and silver Art Nouveau pendant featuring a nymph, 1912 by Catalan goldsmith, designer and painter Lluis Masriera i Roses (1872-1958), Barcelona. [2141 x 3117]1yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Notice how commies' logic falls apart when it's applied to any other country?5mo ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/EnoughCommieSpam
A result of a Russian tank's turret toss somewhere in Eastern Ukraine1yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/DestroyedTanks
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due places. ~W. Somerset Maugham [1675 x 1250] [OC]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Actual advice mallard: A very nice thing you can do for your children, even before they are born9yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/AdviceAnimals
Until a certain age, life consists of our own sorrows and our own joys; then, after a certain age, of our own sorrows and others' joys. ~Magdalena Samozwaniec [1276 x 722]2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Everyone, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ~Robert Louis Stevenson [OC] [1275x1650]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. ~William Hazlitt [OC] [1643 x 865]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
Russia is never as strong as it looks. Russia is never as weak as it looks. ~Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord [1280 x 1272]2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
During the war I saw libraries on fire... ~Zbigniew Herbert [1650x1275] [OC]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
No one was born knowing this stuff, and we don't want to deter people's interest in it!2yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy.... ~H. L. Mencken [OC] [2048x1364]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
TFW someone takes your generosity for granted & isn't even grateful7yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/blackpeoplegifs
Unidentified father and children, location unknown, c. 1900.4mo ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/BlackHistoryPhotos
“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” ― Frank Herbert [OC] [1650x1275]3yr ⋅ TheSanityInspector ⋅ r/QuotesPorn
