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1946: Twins
Dale Nichols: The Twins (1946) (source)
1635: And Drinking Cocktails Too, Apparently
Quirin Boel: Two Monkeys Playing Backgammon (1635 – 1690) (source) “Twee apen spelen triktrak” in Dutch; “triktrak” is a nice onomatopoeia.
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Tagged 17th Century, Animals, Art, Backgammon, Drinking, Games, Monkeys, Netherlands, Printmaking, Quirin Boel
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1892: Ocean
David James: Seascape, Storm Breakers (1892)
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Tagged 19th Century, Art, David James, Painting, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, The Ocean
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1806: Beings Resembling the Human Species
EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON The following account of an extraordinary phenomenon that appeared to a number of people in the county of Rutherford, state of North Carolina, was made the 7th of August, 1806, in presence of David Dickle, Esq. of county … Continue reading
312 BC: A Musicians’ Strike in Ancient Rome
It is…a mistaken idea to suppose that strikes are modern inventions. They are indeed of ancient origin. Livy speaks of an organized strike in the year 312 b.c., the description of which, although sufficiently humorous to make a background to … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th Century BC, Ancient History, Labor, Livy, Music, Religion, Rome, Strikes, Unions
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2393: A View from the Future
Once the financial capital of the world, New York began in the early twenty-first century to attempt to defend its elaborate and expensive infrastructure against the sea. But that infrastructure had been designed and built with an expectation of constant … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, 24th Century, Environment, New York City, Science Fiction
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2017: May I Help You?
Anton Egorov: Impossible Interior (2107) (source)
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Tagged 21st Century, Art, Business, Design, Digital Art, Optical Illusions
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17th Century: Werewolf on Trial
Sennertus [Daniel Sennert, 1572–1637], on the authority of a respectable man, informs us that a certain woman was apprehended on the suspicion that she was a werewolf; which she also acknowledged. The magistrate promised to spare her life, provided she … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, 17th Century, 19th Century, Belgium, Frans Synders, Germany, Monsters, P. I. Begbie, Peter Paul Rubens, Sennertus, Trials, Werewolves
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1940: A Strange Way for an Animal
“The most common voluntary activity….is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination—to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, … Continue reading
1915: Impermanence
In 1915, Sigmund Freud published a short essay, “On Transience,” in which he addresses in a succinct and poetic way the ideas he had developed for his book Mourning and Melancholia (1917). For Freud, these two states—mourning and melancholia—are different … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Anton Hansch, Austria, Buddhism, Language, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Melancholy, Mental Health, Psychology, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, WWI
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