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Tag Archives: Time
1846: The Temple of Time
Emma Willard was a pioneer in Women’s education, opening the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York in 1821—the first institution of higher education for women in the United States. The school was later renamed The Emma Willard School in … Continue reading
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2020: Five-Dimensional Chess
In 5d Chess (released last month by Thunkspace), pieces can travel back in time. A rook in the eighth move of a game, for example, can be placed on the board as it was in move five. This then creates … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020's, 21st Century, Chess, Games, Science Fiction, Time
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1991: Time’s Arrow
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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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Books, Fascism, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Josef Mengele, Martin Amis, Time, Writing, WWII
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1987: Not Like a River
The river-of-time metaphor symbolises the flow of time as the steady movement of a current along with all the flotsam it carries—and the events we experience are depicted by the particular pieces of flotsam being carried along past us by … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Great Britain, Keith Seddon, Philosophy, Rivers, Time
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1985: Calendar Man!
Batman Vol. 1, #384 (June, 1985); cover artists Paris Cullins and Anthony Tollin
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1810: Do You Have the Time?
Watchmaker: Isaac Penard (Swiss, 1619–1676) Casemaker: probably the Firm of Moulinié, Bautte & Moynier (Swiss, 1808–21) Case ca. 1810–20, movement ca. 1650 (source)
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Tagged 17th Century, 19th Century, Design, Horology, Switzerland, Time
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1904: A Nightmare
In 1904…I was staying at the Hotel Scholastika, on the borders of the Aachensee, in Austria. I dreamed one night that I was walking down a sort of pathway between two fields, separated from these last by high iron railings, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Animals, Austria, Books, Dreams, Great Britain, Horses, J. W. Dunne, Oddities, Psychology, Time
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