It’s here! One video, freshly delivered for your amusement and edification, in which I make a lot of dust, wreck my wrists sawing ancient oak by hand, and pretend to know how swordfighting works.
The Dover Boys (1942)
yeah fuck it why not
dover boys break
We're going to have to do a bit of acclimation and treats training but these glasses are everything I hoped they would be
"I consider it a great advantage to keep seperate engines for drivers. I have always believed that if an engine is made as carefully as possible, it will respond to the attention that it gets afterwards; that the driver will be proud of its appearance, and of the duty he can get out of it: and doubly proud to be able to perform a great duty with a small amount of expense. It has been found that the same will not take the same care of another engine as he does his own; and those engines which have unfortunately to be entrusted to several drivers deteriorate in quality, consume more coal, and get dirty and out of repair much more rapidly than those which are appropriated to a particular men. I am of the opinion that it is better for the railway company to spend more capital, and have more engines, so that one locomotive can be retained for each driver, as the cost of stores and maintenance will in that case be less."
- William Stroudley, LBSCR Loco. Superintendent.
turns out it's a lot easier to improve your mental health when you stop keeping your brain on top of a cheese grater
The Shetland Textile Museum Loves Lace Too So They Asked Anne Eunson To Recreate Her Famous Knitted Garden Fence and It Looks Gorgeous: 👉 https://buff.ly/3eU31xc
Random question because I'm discussing webcomic marketing (especially in this current... climate...) with friends:
#any and all of these have worked on me before#but i am most likely to go for shitposts/cool art#the blurb is nice but they often don't really give me a feel for the vibe of the artist as much as the stuff they make for fun does#also to stick in my mind enough to come back there have to be at least 5-10 readable pages out
there ought to be some kind of signifier when people are arguing on the internet whether these are strangers or people who have been best friends for ten years
historyarchaeologyartefacts
Rapier, Germany 1590/1600[786x2000]
Blue
Turquoise? Lapis? Enamel?
Probably enamel - though possibly even porcelain, because this sword-hilt was enamelled to imitate blue-and-white Delft ware…
…while these sword grips were real Dresden / Meissen porcelain.
This, however, is Modern Art done in polyurethane. Still looks good, though…
ETA: many thanks to @rhetoricandlogic, who provided this link to where the OP rapier is held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The blue material is “glass paste”, a ceramic product made by melting glass grains with pigment in a mould.
Side-note: “paste jewels” refers to glass cut and polished in the same way as gemstones. It’s a term which pops up in fiction - often when the paste jewels are stolen in mistake for the real thing, or where the real thing has been pawned or sold and replaced by paste “to keep up appearances”. Such plots sometimes also involve trying to conceal an insurance fiddle…
Roman glass jug with a smaller glass jug inside ~ a so called joke jar that shows the skill of the glassmaker. Probably made in workshop in Cologne, found in burial in Stein am Rhein, #Switzerland, 4th c. AD.
God I am so grateful I was an adult by the time geolocation tracking became normal. Prayers out to minors dealing with guardians who think they need your global coordinates at all times. I would dump someone immediately for even suggesting we start sharing our locations. You'll never get me
Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.
pov: you’ve been transported to the 17th century
#in the article it says that the sailboat sailors were concerned because they could not be towed quickly because of the kind of boat#so they asked Götheborg what type of ship they were and warned that they would not be able to go above a certain speed#and götheborg went ' we are also a sailboat. 50 meters length. no worries :) '#and the poor sailboat sailors were just like ' That's not possible. they have to be messing with us' and then the ship Rolled Up (via bunjywunjy)