enroutemagazine:

In 1960, Trans-Canada Air Lines became the first airline to adopt the jet engine, making a trans-Canada flight quicker than ever before.
Moments volés: en 1960, Air Canada est devenue le premier transporteur à adopter le réacteur, réduisant ainsi le temps de vol d’un bout à l’autre du pays.

Image courtesy of Air Canada Archives. / Image gracieuseté des Archives Air Canada.

See more from our September 2012 issue.
Découvrez le reste de notre numéro de septembre 2012.

lostsplendor:

Eiffel Tower Construction Timeline, 1882

Louvre Museum. The Grande Galerie abandoned during World War II

(Source: adanvc)

lostsplendor:

Geisha and Yakumogoto, Japan. Date unknown. (by Okinawa Soba)

xplanes:

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator (via)

azorica:

Flora, woman picking flowers with a cornucopia in the ruins of Pompeii,  1-45  AD.  

(Source: noiseman)

London, 1940s, in hi-res colour. These photographs were taken using Kodachrome film by the improbably and wonderfully named Chalmers Butterfield, probably in 1949. Via How To Be a Retronaut.

(Source: bleerios)

medieval:

Henry IV of Wrocław

Codex Manesse, about 1300

unhistorical:

July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself.

He died two days later, at age thirty-seven. In late 1888, van Gogh, desperate and growing increasingly unstable, had confronted his friend Paul Gauguin with a knife, before using it to cut off part of his own ear. He was taken to a hospital, where he remained in a delirious state (the locals called him “the redheaded madman”) before committing himself to an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Here, the artist painted one of his most beloved works - The Starry Night. And ironically, it was while van Gogh was in an asylum that interest in his work actually began to build, drawing attention from men like Monet and Pissaro. He left  Saint-Rémy in May 1890 to stay in Auvers-sur-Oise, where he spent the last days of his life.

On July 27, 1890, van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver, though the initial impact did not kill him; in fact, he walked all the way back to the house where he had been staying before an infection began to take effect. His brother Theo, one of the few people with whom van Gogh remained in close correspondence with all his life, visited him before his death. His last words were, according to Theo:

The sadness will last forever.

In his entire lifetime, Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting (Red Vineyard at Arles).