Tag Archives: USA

2016: Not Simply to Keep Time

Posted on April 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

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 →

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1966: A World of Limitless Dimensions

Posted on April 15, 2018 by corvusfugit

Jack Kirby: collage from Fantastic Four Vol. 1, #51 (June, 1966) Original art:

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1886: Methods

Posted on April 14, 2018 by corvusfugit

The following list of terms used to express diverse modes of divination, with explanations, will be found unusually complete and may interest students of occult science. The expressions have been gathered from various sources : Aeromancy, by appearances in the … Continue reading →

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1912: Little Demons

Posted on April 7, 2018 by corvusfugit

Richard Tennant Cooper: An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; symbolising the effect of chloroform on the human body (1912); from a series of medically-themed paintings commissioned in 1912 by … Continue reading →

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1968: I Had a Dream

Posted on April 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

Edward Biberman: I Had a Dream (1968)

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1897: Jersey Shore

Posted on April 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

William Trost Richards: On the New Jersey Shore (1897)

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2006: A Little White Shadow

Posted on April 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

Pages from Mary Ruefle’s book A Little White Shadow, which was composed by whiting out text from Emily Malbone Morgan‘s 1890 book of the same name. …seven centuries of…sobbing…gathered…in the…twilight…and…had their…pages…wandered…through the…dead…borrow so little from…the past…as if they were alive

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1974: Iconography

Posted on April 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

Annibale Carracci: Christ Crowned with Thorns (16th Century) Phil Roman, director: It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974)

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1975: Huelga and Boycott

Posted on March 31, 2018 by corvusfugit

Happy Cesar Chavez Day! Chavez with his dogs Huelga (“strike”) and Boycott. He originally got them simply as guard dogs, but over time the relationship deepened. Boycott went everywhere with him—and he gave credit to both of them for leading … Continue reading →

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2018: The Sky

Posted on March 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

From a day or two ago. More skies here.

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