Barry Landau, "America's Presidential Historian," collector, author, and expert on White House ephemera, and one
Jason Savedoff, a Canadian golden boy who occasionally went by the name of
J-Swing at my old stomping grounds, and who has assumed a number of aliases since, have been charged with
"conspiring to steal historical documents from museums in Maryland and New York, and selling them for profit." Investigation has revealed
further complications.
posted by Hyperbolus
on Aug 6, 2011 -
24 comments
"The
Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historical Site was a functioning prison for 101 years. It was built in 1870 and the first prisoners were brought in 1872. The buildings on the site were
built by inmate laborers. The Old Idaho Penitentiary grew from a single cell house into a
complex of several buildings holding Idaho's most notorious criminals. The
Old Pen received over 13,000 inmates with a maximum population of 603 inmates. There were 222 women inmates (including repeat offenders.) Closed after
riots in 1973,
some say it's
haunted.
posted by bwg
on Mar 9, 2011 -
5 comments
Broadway, block by block, 1899. (SLNYPL) "A 19th century version of Google's Street View, allowing us to flip through the images block by block, passing parks, churches, novelty stores, furriers, glaziers, and other businesses of the city's past."
posted by GrammarMoses
on Feb 15, 2010 -
19 comments
You are interested in the
unknown... the
mysterious. The
unexplainable. That is why
you are
here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to
you, the full story of
what happened on that
fateful day. We are bringing you all the
evidence, based only on the
secret testimony, of the
miserable souls, who survived this
terrifying ordeal. The
incidents, the
places. My
friend, we cannot keep
this a
secret any longer. Let us
punish the
guilty. Let us
reward the
innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the
shocking facts of a
flickr collection of old snapshots?
posted by gamera
on Feb 14, 2009 -
18 comments
Morbid Anatomy - an excellent blog with a focus on art, medicine, death, and culture. Great viewing anytime, but it might also be a good reference source for any macabre seasonal celebrations!
posted by madamjujujive
on Oct 8, 2007 -
5 comments
We are because of others. We are born into this world with minds as naked as our bodies and we have to rely on others to feed, clothe us, and to teach us to think of ourselves as selves. The key is language -- grammatical speech and human culture build upon the brain's biological capacities to create a mind that is something different again than that with which we are born. We are conscious because we can speak to others and ourselves, because we can speak of ourselves to others and ourselves. Language gives us as individuals, memory, and as groups, culture, the social memory. Or so
thought Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, among others. Welcome to the
the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness.
posted by y2karl
on Jul 11, 2003 -
36 comments
Wow.
Spartacus Educational is a masterwork of hyperlinked history with a rather eclectic list of focus topics that can suck you in and never let go. Start anywhere, and then just click, and click, and click...
In light of recent events, you might begin, if you wish, with a brush-up on the 1914
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and from there go on to find out more about the
Black Hand secret society responsible for the killing. You may attempt to sidestep politics by going to
cartoonists, or
U.S. novelists and poets, but you will find that the site is organized against a backdrop of world politics (viewed chiefly from a British perspective), a point of view that weaves its own endlessly looping and mesmerizing mesh.
posted by taz
on Mar 14, 2003 -
9 comments
