Archaeologists believe that the Whale Bone Alley of Yttygran Island, Siberia was built as a shrine and sacred meeting place by the Inuit in the 14th century. At the time, there was a temporary Ice Age that resulted in a prolonged winter, and food shortages that could have led to conflicts between Inuit tribes. Whale Bone Alley may have been the neutral place where they could come together to discuss their problems, take part in sacrificial offerings, and store their meat in the square pits that once existed between the bone walls.
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CHINA. Beijing. Tienanmen Square during a particularly heavy summer rainstorm that lasted most of the afternoon. 1999. Stuart Franklin
Wonderful color photographs of London taken on Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield, circa 1949.
“gay is good”
“gay is great / right on baby”
Washington Square Park, NYC (1970)
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