In the well-known original image, Churchill makes a “V” shaped symbol with his fingers – while gripping a cigar in the corner of his mouth.
But in a reproduction of the picture, hanging over the main entrance to a London museum celebrating the wartime leader, he has been made into a non-smoker through the use of image-altering techniques. (via Winston Churchill’s cigar airbrushed from picture - Telegraph)
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Federal regulators on Monday green-lighted a plan by one exchange to list movie futures, despite a push by some Hollywood groups and lawmakers to ban the products.
A divided Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted, 3-2, to approve movie-futures contracts tied to box-office receipts for Trend Exchange, a trading platform owned by Veriana Networks. A vote on a similar type of contract for the Cantor Fitzgerald-owned Cantor Exchange is expected later this month.
Movie-Futures Plan Is Approved - WSJ.com
I could make millions doing this.
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this is funny.
If this is real—hilarious. Also, isn’t Obama’s tanning bed tax a bit racist? My pale ass feels discriminated against!
This is apparently very real and very awesome. http://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/15800359514
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Founded in 1905, Horween Leather Company is one of the oldest continuously running tanneries in the United States, and the only still located in Chicago, Illinois. (via Horween Leather
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“ That first afternoon when I pulled into town I was short on time and sticky from pie. I was tired and distracted. I had work to do and still another plane to catch. But that didn’t mean I was blind. There I was in Petoskey. The houses were wide of porch and steep of gable, many of them painted in the colors favored by seventh-grade girls. Petunias dangled from window boxes. Below the town the sun spread its diamond light over Lake Michigan, over the boats and the swimmers and the shore. The small downtown was a throwback to some simpler idea of American vacations, a couple of ice cream stores that sold taffy and fudge, a gift shop with T-shirts in the window that said lake. Imagine the cast of “Mad Men” driving out to Michigan in wood-paneled station wagons for the summer. Frank Sinatra playing in the hotel bar. Sophisticated restaurants commingling with pie shops. The world was leafy and dappled, quiet and cool. Within 10 minutes I started to wonder how I could spend the rest of my life in Petoskey.
As American as Cherry Pie - The New York Times
Northwest Michigan might be one of the most beautiful places on earth.
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Brimfield Day 1: Americana Overload « A Continuous Lean.
The world’s largest flea market. This looks amazing. The girlfriend and I will be taking a roadtrip here in July.
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