A man watches a ferry depart from Patras, Greece. Afghan, Iranian and Sudanese migrants, many living in abandoned factories in Patras, try to stow away on nearby ferries to Italy. Source: The Atlantic

The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis

Migrants crowd an inflatable dinghy as an Italian rescue vessel approaches off the Libyan coast. Source: The Atlantic

Fleeing the war-ravaged countries of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, trekking overland to Turkey or Libya, then crowding into ramshackle dinghies in hopes of crossing the Mediterranean into Europe. This is the multipartite journey behind the increasingly dire Mediterranean Migrant Crisis. 60,000 people have made the journey this year alone, according to the UN–and 1,800 of them did not survive. But even for those who do, the journey doesn’t end there. From those who must then hide out in Greece’s abandoned factories to those who attempt to stow away on trucks and ferries bound for Italy and beyond, see more at The Atlantic.

The body of a dead migrant is carried from a merchant ship in the Sicilian harbor of Catania on May 5. Around forty migrants died in the Mediterranean the day before, according to the survivors. Source: The Atlantic

These Are Beauty Treatments. No, Really.

Procedure of removing freckles with carbon dioxide, 1930s. Source: Vintage Everyday

Although they may look like stills from a German expressionist horror film or police photos from an asylum that was shut down because of horrific patient abuse, these photos, in fact, reveal actual beauty treatments used in Europe and the United States in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. While fruit masks and ice masks are still used today, they certainly don’t look like they did then. Let’s hope that Max Factor, whose procedures are among those pictured here, doesn’t bring back any of these disturbing contraptions. See more–if you dare–at Vintage Everyday.

Warming mask for the face and head skin, 1940. Source: Vintage Everyday

Permanent hair procedure. Germany, 1929. Source: Vintage Everyday

Tuscany’s Stunning Sheep-Grazing Fields: Where Desktop Wallpapers Are (Probably) Born

Source: Bored Panda

Bathed in warm, golden rays, free to roam the soothing slopes of lush, sun-dappled fields, these sheep live better than we do. But until the cost of actually traveling to Tuscany, perhaps Italy’s most picturesque region, goes down, you may have to settle for the lovely landscape photography of Marcin Sobas. His eye for color and light makes for photography as rich as oil on canvas. Explore more of Sobas’ Tuscany at Bored Panda, then join him in the luminous lakes and majestic mountains of Europe.

Source: Bored Panda

Source: Bored Panda

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