A medieval encyclopedia (large scans of the illustrations). Link…
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
Charlotte Corday
She pulled the knife from her scarf and plunged it into his chest. He called out, À moi, ma chère amie! ("Help me, my dear friend!") and died. Link…
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Visual Art & Social Commentary
Strong stuff.
Here is the story of fascism goosestepping through the quiet halls of your children’s schools and colleges—an ugly, threatening story. Here is also a story of soldiers fighting for the great traditions of learning, soldiers without uniforms, the winter soldiers of education. Link…
Friday, December 22, 2006
The Vinland map
The controversial Vinland Map is a medieval-style map of the Old World that includes a large island in the western Atlantic identified as "Vinilanda Insula", the Vinland of the Icelandic sagas. It came to light in the 1950s, bound together with a slender and then otherwise unknown tract dating to about 1440, entitled the Tartar Relation. If genuine, the map would demonstrate that mainstream Western Europeans were aware of at least a portion of North America some 50 years before Columbus, and that this information was not restricted to Iceland or even Scandinavia. Link…
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild
As well as establishing a private zoological museum at Tring,
Rothschild also established the edible dormouse or Glis glis.
He was a big fan of the cassowary
and author of Birds of Laysan.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
All things tonsorial
Everything from shaving plates and moustache cups to lady razors, postcards, shaving sticks, mugs and strops. Link…
Monday, December 18, 2006
The Guitar, the Lute and the Early Keyboard
Kenneth Sparr's site contains among other material, pictures of people with stringed instruments. Link…
Friday, December 15, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Umberto Eco's 'The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana' features an amnesiac protagonist, a bibliophile and dealer in rare books nicknamed Yambo, whose doctoral thesis was written on the Hypnerotomachia.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Irish Postage Stamps - Cinderellas
The portrait type of Carson also appears in a 1914 etching by John George Day (National Portrait Gallery, London; NPG 2916); whether the Day etching was in fact the specific model for the poster stamps is not certain.
The Irish White Cross Society was founded on 1 February 1921, to (in its own words) "cope with the distress and destitution resulting in Ireland from the war caused by the determination of the Irish people to assert their right to nationhood."
The Cinderella Stamp Society, founded in London in 1959 - refers to the so-called stepchildren of philately: an often bewildering variety of items formatted like postage stamps but not primarily definable as such. Link…
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Electron Microscopy Unit Snow Page
Most samples of snow crystals are observed by researchers at relatively moderate magnifications (30x-500x), however the capabilities of the electron microscope allow observation of fine structures at over 100,000x. Link…
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
NYC apartments
The World's loose leaf album of apartment houses provides an interesting snapshot with pictures and floor plans of apartment buildings in New York City (1910) . Link…
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
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