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1915: Help the Furrier Strikers
Happy May Day!
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Judaism, Labor, Photography, Strikes, Unions, USA
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1951: An Elusive Charm
Endpaper maps from William T. Innes’s Exotic Aquarium Fishes (13th ed., 1951), with a grid the reader can use to find the location of the various fishes listed in the book.
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1969: On the Moon
Thomas Schmagmeier made this map of the Apollo 11 landing site overlaid on a soccer field to give a sense of scale to the distances traveled by the astronauts. He also made a baseball version. (These are revised versions of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Astronomy, Maps, Sports, The Moon, Thomas Schmagmeier, USA
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1898: The Moon
This model of the moon—made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal—was prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago; the museum was located on the grounds of the World’s … Continue reading
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1957: Description
From Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1957 novel, Jealousy: Now the shadow of the southwest column– at the corner of the veranda on the bedroom side– falls across the garden. The sun, still low in the eastern sky, rakes the valley from the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Agriculture, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Books, Food and Drink, France, Maps, Novels
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1821: After Rain
John Constable: Evening Landscape after Rain (c. 1821)
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Tagged 1820's, 19th Century, Art, Great Britain, John Constable, Landscapes, Painting
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2016: Not Simply to Keep Time
In 2016, The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra argued in a legal hearing that its musicians—members of the Greater Lancaster Federation of Musicians, AFM #294, AFL-CIO—were independent contractors and thus could not form a union. The appellate court did not agree, finding … Continue reading
1900: Family
Carl Fredrik Hill: Family (c. 1900)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Carl Fredrik Hill, Family, Painting, Sweden
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1188: Two Islands
There is a lake in the north of Munster which contains two islands, one rather large and the other rather small. The larger has a church venerated from the earliest times. The smaller has a chapel cared for most devotedly … Continue reading
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Tagged 12th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, Death, Gender, Geography, Gerald of Wales, Ireland, Life, Maps, Oddities, Wales
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100 AD: Leucippus
Galatea, daughter of Eurytius, who was son of Sparton, married at Phaestus in Crete Pandion’s son, Lamprus, a man of good family but without means. When Galatea became pregnant, Lamprus prayed to have a son and said plainly to his … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Century, 5th Century BC, Antoninus Liberalis, Books, Children, Greece, LGBTQ, Mythology, Rome, Sculpture
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