awesomeetsy:

(via Bike Bicycle Happy Birthday Letterpress Greeting by sweetharvey)

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vintagegal:

Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe 

(June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

missavagardner:

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor aka Elizabeth Taylor | February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011 

I have often have wondered what kind of a person I would be today if I did not have these enormous guilts — if everything had gone easily and I had not made such horrific mistakes. I think I would have been the most awful, pontifical goody two shoes. I was really so smug, so sweet, so good, so spoiled — so intolerant of anybody else’s downfall. But tragedy, mistakes, and shame for your mistakes cannot leave you untouched. All the superficial things that one gave so much value to before — money, luxury, indulging in whims — calamity makes them seem so incidental. I swear to God I’d be just as happy living with Richard and the kids in a shack. And I treat the happiness I have now with great respect, great appreciation, because I know how fragile and precarious it is — how easily it can go.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH!

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mothernaturenetwork:

Happy birthday, Ansel Adams
In honor of the famed photographer’s 110th birthday, here are 10 of his most awe-inspiring photos from the U.S. National Archives.

scinerds:

Happy birthday Galileo Galilei !

15 February 1564   – 8 January 1642

An Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy”, the “father of modern physics”,the “father of science”, and “the Father of Modern Science”.

todaysdocument:

Happy Birthday Susan B. Anthony!

February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906

Convicted for Voting

Suffragette Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the election of 1872 in Rochester, New York. As planned, she was arrested for “knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States,” convicted by the State of New York, and fined $100.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.––Susan B. Anthony, 1897

U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony, Record of Conviction, 06/28/1873