Come on, everybody, one more time again

[sovay]

Due to glancing childhood exposure to 1960's TV Batman and of course her name, I always took it for granted that Eartha Kitt was a were-cat, but this 1952 photo by Carl Van Vechten makes a really good case for mermaid:



Other things I learned about today from Tumblr include the Sword of Stalingrad (pictured with its silversmith Leslie Durbin, then of the RAF) and Jason deCaires Taylor's The Lost Correspondent (2006). I was also very struck by this shipwreck turning into an island. It appears to be the SS City of Adelaide.

Comments

[rinue]

An icon. She's the only person I can think of who, if somebody told me "no, legitimately, she had superpowers, and could fly and bend steel and see through walls," I'd say "oh wow, cool, I didn't know that anybody could do that but it makes sense."

[sovay]

She's the only person I can think of who, if somebody told me "no, legitimately, she had superpowers, and could fly and bend steel and see through walls," I'd say "oh wow, cool, I didn't know that anybody could do that but it makes sense."

You know, agreed. I would be pleased to find out but not shocked.