A hundred years ago World War I hadn’t yet happened, but was about to. A hundred years ago “automobiles” were just hitting the market, most of them Ford Model T. A hundred years ago the present was a hazy future inside a cubist painting.
Here’s 5 “Then and Now’s,” 1913 and 2013, to look over the slow grind and twerk of the last hundred years.
Band and protest group Pussy Riot take stage as figureheads of LGBT activism in Russia
2013: Prince Nicolas Romanov, born 1922, is 91 years old, and president of the “Romanov Family Association.” Russia is a federal, semi-presidential republic currently led by President Putin. In news, anti-gay legislation is bans the distribution of ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations.’ LGBT activists are regularly beaten and arrested by the Russian Government.
