A few nice history images I found:

A Brief History of Hollywood

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While the films of Pickford, Chaplin, and Bara offer escapism, other filmmakers seek to portray a harsher reality. In 1913, Carl Laemmle agrees to distribute TRAFFIC IN SOULS, an exposé on the illicit practice of luring immigrant girls into prostitution. Despite warnings of box office poison, the film is a financial success and the message is applauded by critics. In 1916, Thomas Ince produces CIVILIZATION, one of American film’s first grand epics and an anti-war plea for peace. But the film comes too late: the United States enters the Great War in April 1917. By the war’s end, the once-unstoppable French and Italian movie industries are crippled by the conflict in their backyards, but American moviemaking survives unscathed. What was once a market ruled by international film is now Hollywood’s for the taking.

Part III coming soon…

The energy curve of history

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Looking at peak-oil in perspective: Ultimately, the energy-intensive industrial age we live in may be little more than a blip in the course of human history.

Why should you give a damn?

Because everything we do today depends on oil: from transport to food, medicines to technology (internet), from heating to refrigeration – juts take a look around you!

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A Brief History of Hollywood

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1910-1920 – Since the majority of early movie audiences are women and children, moviemakers begin producing adventure serials with women in lead roles, including actress Pearl White, dubbed “the queen of the serials”. Female writers and directors are common behind-the-scenes: Alice Guy-Blaché breaks ground as a highly prolific director in the pre-Hollywood era, while Lois Weber becomes the highest paid director during Universal’s early years. Journalist Frances Marion is hired as a screenwriter and writes over 250 films, including THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL for Mary Pickford, already one of the country’s most respected actresses. Pickford’s rewarding partnership with Marion helps forge a new type of celebrity: the movie star.