Painting of the Hell mouth with an OLD French inscription that translates to 'Here is Hell and the angel who closes the gate'. Dated 12th Century. (Photo: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Another Year, Another Collection of Licensed Photographs and Illustrations
FOR OUR FINAL post of this year, we share with you, the subscribers and the paid subscribers of Indignity, the remaining bounty of our monthly Getty Images Photo Roundup. Indignity has purchased an annual subscription to Getty, allowing us to choose from Getty’s vast selection of topical and newsworthy photographs. To make sure all of us get our money’s worth, at the end of each month, Indignity prepares a bonus collection of photos, to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate.
Here we are, at the end of December, with 366 more days' worth of wear and tear on ourselves, the American republic, and the rapidly warming planet. Will turning a page on the calendar do anything to make that better? The available signs point to the opposite! Nevertheless, we'll be there, and we're happy to have you, the readers, along with us. Thanks for reading and looking at Indignity, and for (some of you) supporting us with your (we assume) hard-earned dollars. To bid farewell to the used-up year of 2024—in which the most elderly president of all time had to quit his reelection bid and the most elderly ex-president of all time finally exited hospice care and we ended up with a new most elderly president in waiting—we present our December photographic theme: OLD.
Empress Xiao Yi Chun (23 October 1727 – 28 February 1775) came from the Han Chinese Wei clan. Her clan name was later changed to the Manchu Weigiya clan during the Jiaqing Emperor's reign. Empress Xiao Yi Chun's father was Wei Qing Tai, a Han Chinese official from Jiangsu. Lady Weigiya was born during the fifth year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, and entered the Qing Dynasty Imperial Court as a lady-in-waiting to the Qianlong Emperor in 1745. Weigiya gave birth to six children in total, including four sons and two daughters. Among her children was the future Jiaqing Emperor. Weigiya died on 28 February 1775, in the fortieth year of the Qianlong Emperor's reign. She was aged 47 years OLD, and was given the posthumous title of 'Imperial Noble Consort Ling-Yi'. In 1796, when Weigiya's son ascended the throne as the Jiaqing Emperor, he granted Weigiya the posthumous title Empress Xiao Yi Chun meaning 'Filial, Graceful, and Pure Empress'. (Photo: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Last book of the OLD testament, stating the destiny of humanity in Saint John. (Photo: Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)Step Pyramid of King Djoser (Zozer), Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, c2613 BC. Djoser (c2686-c2613 BC) was the second king of the 3rd dynasty of the OLD Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. The pyramid was designed by Djoser's chancellor, Imhotep, who was also an architect and physician. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)The Prague Astronomical Clock or Prague Orloj mounted on the southern wall of City Hall in the OLD Town Square. (Photo: Prisma/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Painting of the Hell mouth with an OLD French inscription that translates to 'Here is Hell and the angel who closes the gate'. Dated 12th Century. (Photo: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)'Portrait of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612)', c. 1604. The prince wears a lace collar and silver slashed doublet and hose, with the Order of the Garter round his neck. One hand is on his hip and he looks directly at the viewer. The prince, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 18, was the eldest son of King James I. He would have been nine or ten years OLD at the time this portrait was painted. (Photo: Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1798-1861. Princess Takiyasha Calling up a Monstruous Skeleton Specter at the OLD Palace in Sōma. about 1845-46. Ōban vertical triptych 37.4 x 25.4 - 37.4 x 25.4 - 37.2 x 25.4. (Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Painted limestone statue of Ptahshepses, vizier and son-in-law of the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Nyuserre Ini. Nyuserre Ini was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh. the sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty during the OLD Kingdom period. 25th century BC. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)NANCHANG, Sept. 22, 2016: Yu Ermei introduces her porcelain palace in Xinping Village of Fuliang County in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 21, 2016. The 86-year-OLD villager Yu Ermei spent five years to build this porcelain palace. The three-story circular building is decorated with more than 60,000 pieces of porcelain. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang via Getty Images)Harriet Tubman (c.1820-1913) African-American born in slavery, escaped 1849, and became leading Abolitionist. Active as a 'conductor' in the Underground Railroad. Photograph as an OLD woman. (Photo: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)The phoenix is a mythical sacred firebird that can be found in the mythologies of the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, and (according to Sanchuniathon) Phoenicians. A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its OLD self. In China and Vietnam, the Fenghuang is a mythical bird similar to the phoenix. It is the second most-respected legendary creature (after the dragon), largely used to represent the empress and females, and as such as the counterpart to the Chinese dragon, traditionally seen as masculine or imperial. The phoenix is considered the greatest and the leader of birds. (Photo: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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★★★★ The early light was bright enough with the blinds left up to ease a sleeper into wakefulness. It subsided in mid-morning, but then the gloom burned off to blue. A mockingbird fluttered among the branches of the shrubbery by the corner and perched there fearlessly. The breeze rose to roaring gusts and fell again. Puddles lingered in the curb cuts. The three flights of stairs up past the church sanctuary to the tiny old basketball gym were sweaty work; outdoors again, though, all was coolness. A scrap of orange peel was brilliant in the dazzling light on the crosswalk.
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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of sandwiches selected from Institution Recipes For Use In Schools, Colleges, Hospitals And Other Institutions, by Emma Smedley, Director of Public School Luncheons, Philadelphia, Pa.; Formerly Instructor in Domestic Science, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.; Instructor in Dietetics, The Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses, Baltimore, Md, published in 1919 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
Tom Scocca
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