Tag Archives: Germany

1960: Fasten Your Seatbelts

Posted on February 18, 2019 by corvusfugit

Based on a novel by Stanisław Lem, the 1960 East German/Polish film The Silent Star is set in the future of 1970, when explorations in the Gobi desert unearth an strange crystalline object containing a fragmentary message from Venus. It … Continue reading →

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1991: Time’s Arrow

Posted on December 31, 2018 by corvusfugit

In Martin Amis’s 1991 novel, Time’s Arrow, time flows backwards. It’s not simply that the events are narrated in reverse order; rather, it’s as if the characters were in a film being show in reverse. Here’s how eating works, for … Continue reading →

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1903: Ship of the Desert

Posted on November 22, 2018 by corvusfugit

This publicity image of the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II in front of the Great Pyramids of Egypt was painted in the Otto Bollhagen studios around the time of the ship’s completion in 1903. During World War I, the ship was … Continue reading →

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1824: Evening

Posted on September 9, 2018 by corvusfugit

Caspar David Friedrich: Evening with Clouds (1824)

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1795: Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading!

Posted on August 16, 2018 by corvusfugit

From Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen: ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen, volume 4 (1795): Twenty-four different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 18th Century, 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, David Hindley, Germany, Great Britain, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Music | Leave a comment

12th Century: The Unknown Language

Posted on August 13, 2018 by corvusfugit

Saint Hildegard, a 12th century German Benedictine abbess, was a mystic, composer, and philosopher who wrote works on topics as diverse as theology, botany, and medicine. She began experiencing visions at the age of three, ultimately chronicling a lifetime of … Continue reading →

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1890: Seagulls

Posted on June 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

Max Jensen: Seagulls over the Waves; I made up the date.

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1931: Seascape

Posted on May 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

Patrick von Kalckreuth: Seascape The painting is undated. Von Kalckreuth (1892–1970) was born Patrick Dunbar, but changed his name after his father died and his mother married Richard von Kalckreuth in 1931. The signature on the panting thus indicates a … Continue reading →

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1898: The Moon

Posted on April 28, 2018 by corvusfugit

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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1661: Elizabeth Russell

Posted on April 13, 2018 by corvusfugit

[———–] Russell, always known under the guise or habit of a woman, and answered to the name of Elizabeth, as registered in Streatham parish, Nov. 21, 1661, but at death proved to be a man. He was buried April 14th, … Continue reading →

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