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I'm Tom, 18, Chicago, Notre Dame '16

I like buildings, politics, and books.
I like history, german, and people.
I like nature, church, and africa.
I like slapstick, irony, and sarcasm.
I like repetition, serial commas, and simplicity.

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Theme Six, by Max davis.

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20120703 Port of Nagoya Aquarium 3 (by BONGURI)

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visualus:

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India by Monica Forss.

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filmscape:

(SOURCE via FLICKR)

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"That’s football and, in a sense, that’s life too— we can never be sure of total victory, not even of eternal salvation, until we’ve won it. And win it we must, day by day, even minute by minute. Don’t ever stop wanting to be No. 1, but especially don’t ever stop trying."

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC

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siginskji:

Chapel of Ronchamp - Le Corbusier

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fearof-theunknown:

The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell
There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.
It’s called the the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, a really weird and mysterious place. The walls contain hundreds of animals—like the typical Paleolithic horses and bisons—but some of them are not supposed to be there, like lions, panthers, rhinos and hyenas.
A few are not even supposed to exist, like weird butterflyish animals or chimerical figures half bison half woman. These may be linked to the hallucinations. The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final room.
In fact, the paintings themselves are of such sophistication—some even have three-dimensional relief—that is hard to believe they were made back then. However, radiocarbon dating shows that these paintings are indeed prehistoric: A group was made around 27,000-26,000 years ago and the other at 32,000-30,000 years ago.

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gq:

Deadspin: Our early candidate for Tweet of the Year.

Seconded.

Forever reblog.

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80 plays

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I completely forgot about this, but we flew over South Bend and campus on the flight to Philly over Easter

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c1tylight5:

chicago | Dara Pilugina ✈