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This photo is, to me, the quintessential depiction of contemporary society at the time it was taken. World War II had just ended and the US and the world was celebrating. This shows the pure joy that everyone felt upon the return of the soldiers who…

Pictured here is the album cover of the most recent album by the Swedish metal band Sabaton that came out last July. The songs within the album are dedicated to stories from the First World War from both the Entente and the Central Powers. This war…

This is a really interesting piece of filmography from the perspective of motion. This YouTube comedy series moves at an exceptionally rapid pace which is deliberately off-putting to viewers. Every shot is a still frame, and most of the time the…

This is a page from Volume I of Gibbon's unabridged Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's a dry book, and the type mirrors that. This version uses a typical, serifed font with notes in the margins, rather than as footnotes or in an appendix. The…

The Cozy Log Cabin was originally built in the 1970s, but significant additions have been made over time and the structure will likely continue to evolve. In addition to being rented out via Airbnb, this building (along with others on the…

This is a poster of the famous illustration, The Awakening, my roommate got from the Library of Congress. It was the centerfold of a suffrage issue of Puck Magazine in 1915. The image is a suffragette parody of Manifest Destiny. The woman in yellow…

NC State's student newspaper, Technician, is an online-first publication. It used to be print-first, then cut printing costs again and again over the years until it now only runs only once per week. However, news doesn't only occur once per week;…

Just this month, NC State's student-run newspaper Technician celebrated its 100th anniversary. The first issue was printed in 1920. Today, Technician operates on a online-first basis for delivering news to NCSU students and other readers. Once a week…

This is a page from the Technician 100th anniversary book highlighting headlines in the newspaper’s history which make readers do a double take, either because they’re funny, intriguing or just exceptionally blunt. This is an interesting feature…

The Technology Tower at Talley Student Union surrounds a staircase and an elevator-- it serves no special purpose beyond being an entrance to the building. It is meant to serve as a tribute to the the nature of NC State as a STEM school,…