13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 740)

By MessyNessy

May 21, 2025

1. Felt Anatomy

The incredible creations of Vancouver-based Japanese fibre craft artist Hiné Mizushima.

2. Jim Morrison’s bust found nearly 40 years after it was stolen from Paris cemetery

Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet. The bust taken in 1988 from Père-Lachaise cemetery was found during an unrelated investigation conducted by a financial anti-corruption unit, Paris police said in an Instagram post Monday.

There was no immediate word on whether the bust would be returned to the grave or what other investigation might take place.

Morrison, the singer of Doors classics including “Light My Fire,” “Break on Through,” and “The End,” was found dead in a Paris bathtub at age 27 in 1971.

Found on AP News.

3. Apitherapy and Bee hotels for sleeping on Beehives

Found via Present & Correct. Here’s a apitherapy hotel in Ukraine.

4. Browse the History of Bees or The Feminine Monarchie online (1634 edition)

Since at least the time of Ancient Greece and Rome, beehives have served as foils for the polis — as their workers, drones, and queens can seem to reflect classical ideals of governance, such as Plato’s tripartite division of city-states into the worker, soldier, and guardian class. Aristotle called bees zoa politika (political animals); in the Georgics, Virgil finds a natural social order in the divided labor of avian colonies. As political systems dissolved and reformed, so too did the perception of bees. In the Elizabethan era, the hive became a monarchy, as described in Henry V: “So work the honey-bees / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom. / They have a king and officers of sorts”. Writing circa 1599, Shakespeare was evidently not abreast of the latest apian news: gazing into a hive in 1586, the Spanish entomologist Luis Méndez de Torres realized that bees are ruled not by a king, but by her majesty, the queen. (Or, in Méndez de Torres’ phrase, la maessa de enjambre, the mistress of the swarm.)

Found on The Public Domain.

5. A nearly-lost perfume bottle archive

A reminder of the treasures you can find in old books:

Blueprints from a forgotten French crystal manufacturer went up for sale for thousands of dollars as part of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair in April. Cristalleries de Nancy was a French crystal manufacturer that was one of the nation’s finest. At its apex in the mid-1920s, it was not only producing glittering homewares, like vases and glasses, but jewel-like art deco perfume bottles for Guerlain and Saks Fifth Avenue. In 1936, the glassworks dissolved, but Paris-based book dealer Nicolas Malais heard through an intermediary that an archive of some 300 original drawings and blueprints from Cristalleries de Nancy had been located, among them, some 50 exquisite renderings of atomisers, cut-crystal perfume bottles and more.

Read the full article on Wallpaper.

6. An online Museum of FBI historical artefacts

Visit the museum here.

7. Bezoar stones: undigested matter found in the gastrointestinal tract of deer, goats, porcupines and other animals, once prized as magical cure-all stones, worn by royalty

Arabian doctors had been using bezoars since the 8th century, and brought them into western medicine in the 12th century as an antidote to arsenic, a favorite poison used to assassinate European nobles. By the 16th century, use of bezoars was widespread among the very rich — they were valued at 10 times their weight in gold. Queen Elizabeth I even had a bezoar set in a silver ring.

More found here.

8. A vast collection of Department Store Catalogues (public domain) available to browse online

Browse them on the Internet Archive.

9. An ongoing archive of Abandoned Blogs

I often wonder what happened to many of my peers & why they abandoned their blogs without warning. I don’t like to think about it for too long though. You can look through the blog graveyard here, see if you recognise any.