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1832: Testimony

Posted on June 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

BURNS, CHARLES; age 13; examined 1st June, 1832 1. What were your hours of working at Mr. Hives, of Leeds? ⸺From half past five in the morning till eight at night. 2. Had you any time allowed you for your … Continue reading →

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2016: Emanation

Posted on June 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sukhi Barber: Emanation (2016) (source)

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450 BC: Wanting in Delicacy

Posted on June 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Athlete with head of Lucius Verus [detail] (c. 460-450 BC); Braccio Nuovo, Vatican. (source) This portrait-statue, described in the Vatican Catalogue as heroic, is (though larger than life) perhaps as completely the opposite as one can conceive. It may be … Continue reading →

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1895: A Forest of Colossal Fungi

Posted on June 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Along the chamber through which we now passed I saw by the mellow light great pillars, capped with umbrella-like covers, some of them reminding me of the common toadstool of upper earth, on a magnificent scale. Instead, however, of the … Continue reading →

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2016: Land Operation

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Estelle Chrétien: Opération terrestre (2016) (source)

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1961: Turboflite

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1961 Chrysler Turboflite “The Turboflite proved to be a sensation on the show circuit, but the striking concept car never reached production. Chrysler did continue to develop the turbine engine for use in passenger cars, but even this eventually proved … Continue reading →

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1932: Island Palaces

Posted on June 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Yoshida Hiroshi: Island Palaces in Udaipur (1932) Udaipur (1931) El Capitan, from the series The United States (1925) Glittering Sea, from the series Inland Sea (1926) Deer in Kasuga (1928)

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1914: A Stone’s Throw

Posted on June 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Rocks thrown through the windows of Buckingham Palace by protesting Suffragettes in 1914: “If a constitutional deputation is refused, we must present a stone message.” “Constitutional methods being ignored drive us to window smashing.” In the United Kingdom, women over … Continue reading →

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1949: Albert Einstein Tells You Why Socialism

Posted on June 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural … Continue reading →

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1962: Mean Machine

Posted on June 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

Advertisement for General Motors’s “fully functional Firebird III space-age car” in the Souvenir Program for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. (source)

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