magicaldorkwhore:friendly reminder that the four horsemen of the apocalypse aredeath, famine,...
friendly reminder that the four horsemen of the apocalypse are
death, famine, war, and conquest
pestilence appeared in 1916
people picked it up because they had no idea how imperialism could possibly be any different from war in general
believe me, it is
it so is
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everything you know about louisiana voodoo is random stuff from hollywood movies, itchy, shut up
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A retired Staten Island Ferry waiting to be scrapped sits docked next to a scrap metal yard. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
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The gutted middle deck, in a lovely shade of New York City orange. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
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Now stripped down just to the metal frame, the wooden benches on the outer level must have carried hundreds of thousands of tourists coming to see the Statue of Liberty. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
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The life preservers on board this class of ferry were jackets with solid orange around the neck. As a kid, I always looked under the seats to see that they were there. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
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We used to be told: "Please do not stand on the stairs while the boat is docking." (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A John F. Kennedy-class ferryboat that connected the borough of Staten Island to Manhattan sits in a scrap metal yard on the western shore of Staten Island. Retired several years ago, this boat has been stripped down to its metal frame. Cold and eerie, the boat’s decks are badly deteriorated from neglect and by the elements.
Each Kennedy-class ferry carried up to 3,500 passengers and up to 40 vehicles, is 297 feet long, 69 feet 10 inches wide and has a tonnage of 2,109 gross tons. Two ferries, the American Legion II and Governor Herbert H. Lehman, were retired after 40 years of service, with the acquisition of the new Molinari class ferries.
Photographer Gordon Donovan ventured on this boat in its final stages to capture some haunting images of this ghostly vessel before its final voyage. (Yahoo News)
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