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The Abandoned Forest Haven Institution in Laurel, Maryland | Abandoned America

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher May 31, 2023 May 31, 2023Ableism, Architecture, Caste and Class, Crime, Friends and Follows, History, Human Trafficking, Incarceration, Photos, Social and Political Issues, United States, United States

The abandoned hospital building at Forest Haven

The Abandoned Forest Haven Institution in Laurel, Maryland | Abandoned America (Abandoned America)

Forest Haven in Laurel, MD was never a great place, even when it was open. Now that it’s abandoned, it’s become something of an urbex playground despite its dark past.

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where the District Training School made the transition from a relatively innocuous treatment and training center to what one investigating attorney described as “the deadliest known example of institutional abuse in recent American history.” In the beginning, at least, things appeared uneventful. Then, in 1954 a man was arrested in…

Delaware River Generating Station | Abandoned America

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023Architecture, Friends and Follows, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Photo Galleries, Photos, United States

Delaware River Generating Station By Matthew Christopher

Delaware River Generating Station | Abandoned America (Abandoned America)

Once Philadelphia’s main power plant, Delaware River Generating Station is now an abandoned urban exploration paradise.

It’s always hard to fathom how something as large, expensive, and integral to a city’s history as Philadelphia’s Delaware River Generating Station winds up abandoned. Dust floated lazily through the air of the turbine hall, illuminated by some impressive shafts of light filtering in through the skylights overhead, and I felt, as I often do…

Archaeologists have uncovered the first human representations of the people of mythical Tartessos – Arkeonews

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher April 22, 2023 April 22, 2023Archaeology, History, News, Photos, Spain, Temples and Shrines

The team from Mérida’s Institute of Archaeology believes two of the busts discovered in what is thought to be a shrine or pantheon represent Tartessian goddesses, despite the fact that Tartessian religion was previously thought to be aniconic (opposed to the use of idols or images).The stone busts’ facial depiction, as well as the inclusion…

Explore the Oldest Digitized Photos from the Schomburg Center | The New York Public Library

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 27, 2023 February 27, 2023Africa, Culture, History, Maizeland, Photo Galleries, Photos, Social and Political Issues, United States, United States

Type of Resource still image Genre Photographs Date Created 1840 - 1849 Division Schomburg Center

The Schomburg Center’s Photographs and Prints Division houses more than 500,000 photographs, lithographs, and engravings by and about Black people in the U.S., Africa, and the wider African Diaspora. Recently, 17 daguerreotype portraits in the Division dating from the 1840s to 1850s, most of them featuring Black subjects, were digitized and are now available to…

In ‘Walks of Life,’ Migwa Nthiga Photographs the Communities Most Impacted by the Climate Crisis — Colossal

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 12, 2023 February 12, 2023Africa, Colonial Damage, Culture, Kenya, Photos, Social and Political Issues

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/walks-of-life-migwa-nthiga/

Those living near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya have been experiencing the brunt of the climate crisis. Already a dry, arid region, recurring droughts have left communities without water for animals, crops, and drinking, requiring people to leave their homes for more stable and fertile landscapes.“Tribes could walk hundreds of kilometers in search for greener…

Boarding Up a Boarding School: The Abandoned Saint Katherine’s Academy*

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher December 20, 2022 May 25, 2023Culture, Friends and Follows, History, Photos, Social and Political Issues, United States

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/saint-katherine-academy

“St. Katherine’s Academy was built in 1899 by a prominent citizen of the town and avid preservationist. It was originally a small country inn, a premiere destination for the elite from surrounding cities.In the 1950’s the inn was sold to the Sisters of St. Katherine who reopened the inn as a girls’ boarding school. After…

Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb | Language | The Guardian

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher November 14, 2022 November 14, 2022Africa, Beauty, History, Photo of the Day, Photos

It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory comb on which the words appear.Believed to be the oldest known sentence written in the earliest alphabet, the inscription on the luxury item reads: “May this tusk root out the…

Kame’s Nohmasks on Instagram: “@kames_nohmask 能面工房　-Nohmask Studio-”

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher September 25, 2022 September 25, 2022Culture, Japan, Japan, Japanese, Photos, Theater, Video, Wearable Art

Source: Kame’s Nohmasks on Instagram: “@kames_nohmask 能面工房　-Nohmask Studio-”

Royal Portrait: The Regality of Indigenous Women | Arts & Entertainment

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher August 3, 2022 August 3, 2022Culture, Indigenous Maizeland, Photos, Social and Political Issues, Spirituality, United States, Visual Art

At the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, a new exhibit just opened that features an Indigenous artist’s exhibition, Royal Portrait, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous matriarchs through reimagining royal regalia and portraiture. Source: Royal Portrait: The Regality of Indigenous Women | Arts & Entertainment

Ranveer Singh lands into legal trouble for nude photoshoot; Police complaint filed against him for ‘hurting women’s sentiments’ | Hindi Movie News – Times of India

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher July 25, 2022 July 25, 2022Culture, News, Photos

Earlier, actress Mimi Chakraborty reacted to Ranveer’s pictures and asked if this photoshoot was done by any female actor instead of Ranveer., what would have been the reaction? She tweeted, “Internet broke with Ranveer singh’s latest photoshoot and comments were (mostly).Just wondering if the appreciation would hav been same if she was a woman.Or would…