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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 5h

This is who runs this account.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 5h

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

L. Frank Baum surrounded by the costumed actors in his play The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays that includes characters from the later volumes of the OZ books.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 8h

NEW ESSAY — Dobrota Pucherová on René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences (1783), the first Slovak novel, partially banned upon publication and translated into English for the first time this year — publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ad...

A hand-colored 19th-century-style print of two people in traditional Alpine folk dress: a seated woman in a red-trimmed bodice, orange jacket, and blue skirt holds a ceramic jug, while a man in a broad hat, short tunic, embroidered sash, and cape stands beside a stream. Pine trees and mountains rise behind them, with two smaller figures dancing in the distance.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

So excited for these cats’ groundbreaking French EDM album

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9h

important update: Adidas’ new Pet Collection

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 8h

“Being Superman, I had to do everything gracefully, because everything was supposed to be easy for him. If I leaped off the top of a building, I had to land gracefully.

I couldn't land flat on my feet the way a stunt man would do it.”

#KirkAlyn

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 8h

"I had to do all my own stunts, and the strong dancer's legs helped me a great deal. I didn't need a trampoline to help me get off the ground.

And I did it gracefully!”

#KirkAlyn

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 8h

"I never got injured, but I damn near got killed. In one scene, I was positioned 18 inches away from a railroad track with a train barreling by at 90 miles an hour. If the slightest thing had gone wrong, it would have been all over for me.”

Kirk Alyn #BOTD

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 8h

© Willy Ronis
Autoportrait aux flashes, Paris, 1951

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 9h

#WednesdayWisdom

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 10h

To be an excellent Gas Station you must train your pump-jockeys (pompistes) to be forever smiling and willing to run, skip, & dance around you car while attending to your fuel needs.

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 10h

“I would pick people up, leap off cliffs, break things with my hands. And you don't do those things in just one take. It takes an awful lot of strength to do those things in a manner that's really convincing.

My ballet training came in handy”.

-Kirk Alyn #BOTD

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning!

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 22h

I had that dream again

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 17h

Mandy, a haunted doll, is kept in the Quesnel & District Museum in Quesnel, British Columbia. Her eyes supposedly follow the movements of museum visitors, and cameras trained on her flicker. Mandy was given to the museum after her owner kept getting woken up by her crying.
#LegendaryWednesday

Photography of Mandy, the haunted doll of Quesnel.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h

Today, in some of the most important historical news I have ever brought you, it is the 61st anniversary of the day Mike Carmichael of Alexandria, Indiana, first set out on his quest to cover an otherwise unremarkable baseball with the largest possible number of layers of paint