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A Castle in the Making
Ozark Medieval Fortress – Thirty masons, carpenters and stone carvers authentically dressed, will work all year round for twenty years, the time required to build a fortress in the Middle Ages.
Dr. Zworykin's Secret Experimental RCA Photos
The Personal Photographs of Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Television Pioneer. The screen images are time exposure photographs of the picture on the kinescope in the monitoring rack in the main control room. Some were taken with stationary frames of moving picture film projected upon the iconoscope by a standard moving picture machine. Others are actually the pictures transmitted with the iconoscope camera in the studio and outdoors.
They keep calling: Ahead!
A small slide show of partisan monuments on the territory of former Yugoslavia. via: [aesthetic interlude] and [grain edit]
What's the joke?
What's the joke? A Non–Sequitir single panel. Please explain
Fund raising activities for an event
Can you come up with some activities for a charity fund raising event?
Childhood cruelties
Andrew O’Hagan writes in the London Review of Books on the James Bulger murder.
It really should be read in conjunction with his earlier piece from 1993 to fully appreciate his stance. Previously [1] [2]
American milk and the cardboard
Emilio the Moor was a parodying humorist flamenco exponent who died in a domestic gas incident.
[via].
Spain 1840 – 1970
A large gallery of contributed images from Spain including what looks to be an entertainer with a prosthetic nose and ear; a hand tinted baby in a bow and school photo; young tough guys and not so tough guys; plus old Semana Santa scenes, as posted previously.
Pvt. Droop Has Missed The War!
Droops and 8-balls in this man's army shouldn't take unnecessary chances with their lives. Illustrated by Walt Ditzen.
Scout, Mum, Dad, etc
Portraits – Somewhat creepy but arresting, nevertheless.
Photography of Everyday Life
love-pictures "found and taken photographs that are experienced as much by the heart as by the head."
The Lessons of Gobekli Tepe
Laying bare the gratuitous assumptions of the patriarchal historical narrative. A weblog entry from the Aristasian Empire, of which a history and some kinnies [NSFW]. • Gobekli Tepe [previously] • Aristasia [previously]
Mustapha Ali
Greece in 1823 and 1824; being a series of letters and other documents on the Greek revolution — the life of Mustapha Ali:
Small Trades of Salonica
At the American Farm School historical records they have a large collection of postcards. In amongst them are these small sketches of local traders.
Formosan aborigines
What is this lead ring?
In this excerpt from Beloved Son Felix, there is a description of a body that they have disinterred for an autopsy. They find a lead ring which causes disgust. What would the lead ring be?
Classical humour
Westminster Gold reissued classical albums in the seventies. The covers could be racy [slightly NSFW], unusual, puzzling, irreverent, and employ national stereotypes, but my favourites are the literal puns like Pops Promenade and Allegri String Quartet.
Bulgarian Days
I need help retrieving a vertical blind
A vertical blind slat has blown out of the window and landed on a roof below. Any ideas on retrieving it?
Limberjack and Limberjill
Jig Dolls as a percussion instrument, here played by Jean Ritchie [previously] and The Beers Family. There are modern exponents though - Limberjacking is NOT just for folkies.
Women Veterans Historical Collection
Jean M. Fasse (Red Cross during WWII, and later the Special Service). Shirley Ann Thacker (WAVE). Just two of the interviews from the extensive collection of material (photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, oral histories and posters) at the Women Veterans Historical Collection.
This is a three-er
Conquerors 2009 “There are many underhanded ways of making your conker harder. The best is to pass it through a pig." World Conker Champion – Charlie Bray. The World Conker Championships are on this weekend. All the action from last year. previously [1] [2]
In other news, a cure for bleeding canker has been found, with a welcome side effect, leaf miners don't like having garlic breath.
Monitor Cliff Scalers
In the book I'm currently reading, City of Djinns,
is this intriguing passage:
The fascinating world of conservation
Biohistorical research • Wax engraving • The Thinker after the bomb • Alfred Stieglitz's palladium photographs • Tibetan bronzes with interior contents • The examination and treatment of a pair of boots from the Aleutian Islands — A small sample of the articles available from the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC).
The abnormal has become the norm
Brenda Kenneally documents the effects of illegal drugs in her Brooklyn, New York neighborhood. Money Power Respect and Big Trigg. NSFW [previous comment]
I'm unable to comment in Projects
I can't post a comment to Projects. OSX 10.5.7 Safari 4.0.1 and Firefox 2.0.0.14. The comment previews okay but after hitting post it returns an empty text input box and no comment is posted.
Latin American Science
History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean [flash required] – the history of science from a Latin American perspective.
Bollywood Gastronomy
Kuchh Kook Hota Hai is an all singing, dancing (and possibly epileptic fit inducing) Indian cookery show (without much cooking), featuring two sassy assistants 'salt' and 'pepper'. To whet your appetite – Mutton Burger and Carrot Roll.
La Comédie Musicale
French musical comedies 1918-1940 [French]. Non-French can still appreciate the programmes, photographs, music and videos.
The art of Josh Keyes
Animals isolated in dystopian tableaux.
Begone ye earthling creatures bold, there are no women here.
Disney's Man and the Moon (1 of 6). One-horned unigoats versus SCIENCE! featuring Werner von Braun who, to the nose adds a small atomic reactor in preparation for [cue dramatic music] a trip around the moon. [via]
Talking Cards
Used as postcards and for advertising, phono postcards were a single-sided phonograph record stuck on a card with a hole punched through. The Weco cards stand out with their use of photography (with the clothes sometimes painted on) and see-through vinyl.
Davy Jones Locker
The NAVIS project is a multilevel international database for ancient ships of Europe. The database has very detailed information and pictures of ships from the 2nd millenium BC to the 12th century AD (found whilst trying to answer this AskMe).
The Cully Flaug'd and other suchlike
British Printed Images to 1700 is a fully searchable (if somewhat buggy at this early stage of release) online library of over 10,000 printed images from early modern Britain. As a taster, here is the naughty Cully Flaug'd [NSFW] of the title.
Dispatch and Tit-Bits treasure hunts
Secret London has the story of a circulation promotion gimmick that runs awry.
Not just another dictionary
Awaken the researcher within you
DFG Science TV is back. Researchers documenting their work. If you missed the first series, it is still available for viewing.
Atlas Obscura
A Game of Gravity
Cogitate - Manipulate LEGO TECHNIC gears, beams, conveyor belts and motors to complete the ten pre-built puzzles or create your own levels. [In my case - Then watch them crash in a heap when you test them.]
We were so free
Moments in Time 1989/1990 - The Fall of the Wall and reunification. Films and photos from private collections. With woodpeckers.
The NRW timeline
NRW 1946—2006. Short articles chronicling North Rhine-Westphalia. The site has one rather large shortcoming though, the video clips cannot be accessed (only available on VHS within the State!).
SYDNEY NSW Planning Thread
We need to pick a date and time between July 17 and July 19 and a location. I'll send out the group email soon.
You are about to enter the Gallipoli Peninsula at Z Beach
Gallipoli: The First Day [flash] An ABC documentary site about the WW1 ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, on 25 April 1915.
I love my LHC
Episode 4 - Problems "Okay, sometimes I almost want to give up everything." A fascinating insight into the Large Hadron Collider (loving the soundtracks too).
YTL
Filipino Komiks Masters
The Philippine Comics Art Museum. 1940's to the present.
One Flat Thing, reproduced
Synchronous Objects - Exploring choreographic structures using objects and data, creating stunning visualisations. [flash]
Umetnost
The Digital Library of Slovenia has (among other things) music [like this] [previously], posters [like this] and photographs [like this].
Kiss the cobbles
The Paris-Roubaix is about to start. With an average of two punctures and one prang per competitor this a an exciting bike race.
Trash talking
Is there a reason for not having a search facility in the podcasts section?
I'm so occupied these days
Soup Over Bethlehem - The mloukhieh in the soup bowl represents the shared national heritage and the meal itself becomes a gastronomic anchoring of a Palestinian identity in eternal flux. [via]