This day in history:
Minutes before giving a speech on a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in an assassination attempt.
The would-be assassin’s bullet is slowed down after travelling through a steel eyeglass case and the folded, fifty page speech he intended to give, stopping in his chest. Realizing that he wasn’t coughing up blood, Roosevelt figured he was well enough to go ahead and deliver his speech rather than rush to the hospital.
He spoke for the next 90 minutes, opening with the words:
“Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
Doctors deemed it too risky to remove the bullet, and Roosevelt carried it with him inside his body for the rest of his life.
October 14, 1912
LIKE A BOSSTHE BEST BOSS
THE BOSS OF THE BOSSES
i love art galleries. i love the silence. i love how clean everything is. i love the little ropes to stop you from getting too close. i love looking at paintings and nodding knowingly. i love the whiteness. i love watching people squint and tilt their heads, as if that might help them to grasp the meaning behind each stroke.
i love imaginging the painter, whoever he or she may be, standing next to me, brush in hand, a smudge of paint on their nose, encouraging me to look, to see what they saw.
(via diedandturnedintobarrowman)
I feel the same way.
Personalized graduation cards complete! A compass for the cultural anthropologist and a plane for the engineer.
Gosh I’m a loser with no plans ._.
Whatev…
Shot some photos of my brother and his girlfriend today at his graduation awards ceremony and ate way too much gourmet chocolate afterward. Nom nom nom. Happy Saturday everyone :)
“Good Night”
Anton Marrast (Spain) via Curioos
