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The Secret Museum of Mankind
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"Published in 1935, the Secret Museum is a mystery book. It has no author or credits, no copyright, no date, no page numbers, no index ... The tone of the commentary is dated, and uniformly racist in the extreme, often hilariously so. It reads like the patter of a carnival sideshow barker, from a time when the world was divided between "modern" Europeans and "savages" ... Presented here is the Secret Museum in its entirety, all 564 pages scanned and transcribed-- nothing is omitted or censored ... Treat it as entertainment instead of education (don't take it seriously and don't believe a word it says!), adjust for the blatant racial bias of the time, and enjoy."
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at 7:41 AM on February 14, 2008
(67 comments)
Arthur Miller's Missing Act
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For all the public drama of Arthur Miller's career ... one character was absent: the Down-syndrome child he deleted from his life
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at 9:06 AM on August 20, 2007
(51 comments)
Rugs of War
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"The traditional knotted rugs made by the semi-nomadic Baluch people of northern Afghanistan are famous for their distinctive designs, their rich yet subdued palette and the quality of their construction and materials, which feature traditional patterns and motifs.
The “war rug” is an evolution of these Baluch rugs through the inclusion of militaria and other references to the experience of war and conflict in the region. These significant changes became apparent almost immediately after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, when rug-makers began incorporating complex imagery of war planes, helicopters, machine guns, maps and texts into their designs."
posted to MetaFilter by anastasiav
at 1:16 PM on January 8, 2007
(9 comments)
Ka-BOOM!
:: A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles, Based on the Latest Conclusions of the Most Dubious Wordologists & Comprising Many Hundreds of New Words which Modern Literature, Science & Philosophy have Neglected to Acknowledge as True, Proper & Useful Terms & Which Have Never Before Been Published in Any Lexicon
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at 9:37 AM on November 21, 2005
(17 comments)
Like Everyday
"I am a woman and I live in Iran. I am a photographer and this is the only thing I know how to do."
posted to MetaFilter by anastasiav
at 6:39 AM on October 17, 2005
(15 comments)
solipsistic
:: beautiful weirdness - Old Photographs and Surrealistic Prose
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at 9:44 AM on July 27, 2005
(11 comments)
Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
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at 9:39 PM on July 13, 2005
(122 comments)
cli·ché
:: 1 : a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it; 2 : a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation; 3 : something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace
posted to MetaFilter by anastasiav
at 12:49 PM on June 25, 2005
(42 comments)
prognosticate
:: use your powers of deduction to predict what happens next in today's news stories
posted to MetaFilter by anastasiav
at 8:24 PM on June 22, 2005
(7 comments)
