The elderly couple seen hugging on the bed in Titanic while water floods their room were the owners of Macy’s department store, Rosalie Ida Straus and Isidor Straus. Ida refused a seat on a lifeboat, stating “Where you go, I go” which inspired Rose’s line in the film
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson during a tour of Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, 11 September 1962
Ava Gardner’s Movie Studio Application In 1941
J W Waldron’s Smith & Bicycle Works In Brighton, England. C. 1900
Northumbrian Miner At His Evening Meal, 1937
Anne Frank, with her sister Margot at Zandvoort Beach, 1940
Actress Veronica Lake with her hair twisted in a drill press, demonstrating potential dangers to women in factories during WWII, November 9, 1943
A balloon apron is suspended to defend London from air attacks, 1915
Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA’s Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962
Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 30 July 1938, on his 75th birthday
Peasant girls with berries in a village near Vologda, Russian Empire. Photo by Prokudin-Gorsky, 1909.
A US flag flies at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese-American internment camp. The camp was a detention facility for some of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans excluded from the West Coast under wartime presidential Executive Order 9066 (Manzanar, California 1942)
Theodore Lee is the editor of Caveman Circus. He strives for self-improvement in all areas of his life, except his candy consumption, where he remains a champion gummy worm enthusiast. When not writing about mindfulness or living in integrity, you can find him hiding giant bags of sour patch kids under the bed.