‘Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, atop a camel, enchants the ancient sphinx and pyramids at Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, on January 28, 1961. His wife Lucille, lower left, records the scene on film. The Armstrongs are on a U.S. State Department-sponsored Go…
…that we get anxious if we haven’t had one in a while. — William Gibson, The Art of Fiction, Paris Review, No. 211.
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An Austin-Healey racing car in pristine condition at a pre-race scrutineering soon before it was involved in a historic crash during a race in Le Mans, France, 1955. The disaster at the Le Mans 24-hour race resulted in 84 people being killed after…
“To add speed, add lightness.” “Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.”
The Nürburgring – 4 August 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio was forty-six years old and a four-time World Driving Champion when he arrived at the Nürburgring in August for the 1957 Grosser Preis von Deutschland. He had already won the season opening race i…
‘Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American amateur street photographer who worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago, althou…
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