"Mourning Mask And Dress Used By Empress Elisabeth Of Austria In 1889 After Her Son Rudolf Took His Own Life"
"The Mask Is Made Of Black Velvet With Lace Trim And Ostrich Feathers; Dress Is Made Also Of Velvet With Jet Black Glass Beads. Whole Thing Designed By Fanni Scheiner."
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Nervie 10 month s ago
#8 I've always wondered why the presence of a Stork carrying a baby in its beak represented procreation and birth. Logically...it should be a large flying penis and scrotum. I think I can infer, without hyperbole, that everyone on earth has thought the same thing.
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Frederick 10 month s ago
Nervie,
It's a middle European thing, especially in Spain and Germany. Storks did build their (massive) nests atop of Chimneys. It was the common belief that they were also dunking babies down the chute because most babies were born in Spring when the Nest building started.
It's a middle European thing, especially in Spain and Germany. Storks did build their (massive) nests atop of Chimneys. It was the common belief that they were also dunking babies down the chute because most babies were born in Spring when the Nest building started.
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Eleazer 10 month s ago
#18 You bet your @$$ they enjoyed each other’s company. 
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Ollie 10 month s ago
#25 They each had servant girls who got the grass stains out for them.
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Julias 10 month s ago
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Swastika?
Swastika?
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Lu 10 month s ago
Quote: Julias
Matilde Moisant
You do have her name and the year. Why don't you use google?
The Nazis adopted it 1920.
So no, not a "Hakenkreuz"-Swastika. She used it as a good luck charm. As it was supposed to be before Hitler.
Besides, the hands point left, so its a Sauwastika.
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Frederick 10 month s ago
#22 Man, she is mesmerizingly beatiful. It is like one just can't look away.
The thought that all these people are long gone and maybe these photos are the last evidence they even existed, makes me sad.
The thought that all these people are long gone and maybe these photos are the last evidence they even existed, makes me sad.
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Mimi 10 month s ago
#18 They are dressed in drag. BTW Eleazor is a lunatic, ignore him.
#44 Hollywood deals in fiction. Glamorous fiction.
#44 Hollywood deals in fiction. Glamorous fiction.
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Casper 10 month s ago
#28 She was very beautiful. She was assassinated the same year.
It's a middle European thing, especially in Spain and Germany. Storks did build their (massive) nests atop of Chimneys. It was the common belief that they were also dunking babies down the chute because most babies were born in Spring when the Nest building started.
Swastika?
You do have her name and the year. Why don't you use google?
The Nazis adopted it 1920.
So no, not a "Hakenkreuz"-Swastika. She used it as a good luck charm. As it was supposed to be before Hitler.
Besides, the hands point left, so its a Sauwastika.
The thought that all these people are long gone and maybe these photos are the last evidence they even existed, makes me sad.
#44 Hollywood deals in fiction. Glamorous fiction.