On October 7, 1955, Alan Ginsberg read “Howl” (Howl for Carl Solomon) publicly for the first time at ‘6 Gallery’ in San Francisco, and blew the lid off post-WW2 American poetry. Shown here at a reading in SF the following month. [800×812]

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« Marcel MARCEAU, French mime artist who created the figure of “Bip” a tragic white clown, in his dressing room with American actor Stan LAUREL. Paris 1958. Photo Erich Lessing [675 x 704][OS]

In 1911 Hiram Bingham went to Peru looking for Vilcabamba, the last Inca city to fall to the Spanish. Instead he found a set of overgrown ruins on a hilltop. The locals called it “Machu picchu” meaning “old mountain”. This is the first picture ever taken, before the brush was burned away.[1601×1201] »

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