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An Art Nouveau silver & plated fairy lamp Moritz Hacker circa 1905
Earth at night as seen from the international space station
Beautiful woman, I love the character in every wrinkle of her face
I have a soft spot for many books, obscurities and older classics, that probably not many people are drawn to nowadays. No matter, they have an enthusiast in me.
The historian James Bryce (1838-1922) first published his history of the Holy Roman Empire in 1864, and revised it several times over the coming decades. When I taught World History, of course I could not resist using Voltaire’s quip (“Neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire”); it is the sort of thing that students remember. But there is a lot more to the story, and although this Bryce treatment is demanding, it is not at all musty. Catch this tart comment:
“Men were wont in those days to interpret Scripture in a singular fashion. Not only did it not occur to them to ask what meaning words had to those to whom they were originally addressed; they were quite as careless whether the sense they discovered was one which the language used would naturally and rationally bear to any reader at any time. No analogy was too faint, no allegory too fanciful, to be drawn out of a simple text.”
That tracks, coming from a Habsburg dynasty that was keen to trace its direct line of descent from the god Saturn (as well as a few other notables from the Bible.) I love how in this era rulers would just mix and match between Greek and Biblical myths
May 22, 1918 Arcade at Army City, Kansas, built to satisfy the needs of Camp Funston. From Vintage America Uncovered, FB.
Camp Funston is where the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic began. It was so-called because Spain was thought to be particularly hard hit, not because it began there. 100 soldiers came down with the flu in March 1918
‘The Visitor’ by Andrew Hitchen
I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence.
This is a Saturniidae moth caterpillar
The Elton John of caterpillars
1925 c. Edgar Brandt & Daum table lamp, Nancy, France. From Art Deco, FB.
I feed ours dried mealworms (which they love) and filbert meats. I used to feed them peanuts until learning that peanuts lack certain nutrients found in tree nuts. The scrub jays dart in when the crows aren't looking.
Cream cheese and salmon.
i personally do lateral tripod. dynamic tripod is the "proper" way and i believe most common, feel free to correct me.
None of these. Lateral tripod is closest, but I grip the pen with just the tips of my thumb, index and middle fingers. I'm naturally left handed but my penmanship teacher in 1st/2nd grade tried to make me right handed in the 1960s before my mother made her stop and I switched back. Now I'm crosshanded and everything about my penmanship strange, including how I form letters (I make several of them backwards/upside down)