In 1930, a patent was issued to Helene Shelby for a giant, glowing-eyed skeleton that was designed to make criminals confess.
The idea was for police to scare suspects into telling all by sitting them in a dark room, raising a curtain to reveal the device, and questioning them through a megaphone in the skeleton’s skull - which contained a camera to record their statements for use in court.
(Source, Source 2)
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Spanish school, 19th century| A Woman Sitting on the Edge of a Bed (detail)
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CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
dir. Peter Godfrey
Bonus:
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Starry
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me logging onto tumblr dot com to inform my mutuals about my new hyperfixation
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👉👈🥺
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i may have made something
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listening to creep on the radio in the car and after it ended the host just sighed and went “well, im sorry you feel that way thom” and then played the next song
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#the holy trinity
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sorry for putting you in a glass jar with a twig and a leaf i thought you would like it
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Prepping for road trips
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rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between "damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)" and "damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)"
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