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

1. The Cinéorama At the 1900 Paris Exposition, the Lumière brothers, who had made the first public projections of a motion picture in 1895, presented their films on a colossal screen, as well as a primitive talking motion picture. An even more ambitious experiment in motion pictures however, was the Cinéorama of Raoul Grimoin Sanson, which simulated a voyage…

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

1. Reading in Paris A themed compilation of 1950s photographs found on Live Journal. 2. Fabulous Vintage Bulgarian lottery tickets More found on Present & Correct. 3. A Peculiar Measuring instrument This circular slide rule describes the effects of a nuclear explosion on people. After World War II, scientists at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory…

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

1. “Still for Sale” 104 N Main St, LaFayette, Kentucky — “Lafeyette Bank opened its doors in 1898 with original capital of $15,000. Today, this building is a high-profile business location in the center of a historic village. Extensively restored with many original features including cement and some original wood flooring, large windows, shelving, chandeliers,…

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

1. The Autumn Leaf Keepers of Paris 1930s – 1950s. Photographer unknown. Found on Life Journal. 2. A Glass Hideaway for Sale in Paris’ Latin Quarter Former stables, asking 2.6M Euros, found on Espaces Atypiques. 3. A Marfa Studio Visit with Camp Bosworth 4. A Persian Astronomical Instrument, 1866-7 Found here. 5. Try to imagine…

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

1. Human nature, or, Men and Women Exposed, 1901 A forgotten book, found and digitised on Archive.org. 2. A Life Magazine illustration predicting the fashion of the future, 1914 Found on Reddit. 3. Airline reservations before computers, 1945 (And apparently before we changed the spelling of “flights.”) Found on Twitter. 4. Reaching the Midpoint while…

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

1. The world’s first publicly accessible art museum storage facility Offering an entirely new type of experience for museum-goers and art lovers in the Netherlands, the art storage facility in Rotterdam’s Museumpark, which will open to the public in autumn 2021, has been built to house the art collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in one place…

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

1. This Alpine Shelter in the Italian Dolomites, built during World War I at a height of 2760 meters Today, the mountain range is part of the “Natural Park of the Ampezzo Dolomites,” but back during WWI it was a scene of intense warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary. The warring sides installed heavy artillery, built…

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

1. Take a peek around this Georgian style home for sale “The Hargrove Bellamy House is a prominent Market Street mansion in the heart of historic Wilmington with an impressive historic pedigree. Built in 1928, by Hargrove Bellamy, a descendant of Wilmington’s famed Bellamy family, this mansion quality residence is the unique marriage of romance…

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

1. A Live-In Museum/ Gallery Space in Provence for Sale Situated in the heart of beautiful Bonnieux Village in the Luberon region, asking 420,000 euros. More details found on Espaces Atypiques. 2. England’s oldest inn, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem (dating to 1189) Nottingham, England was once described as a “Place of Caves” and indeed,…

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

1. A historic spiritual sanctuary of miniature shrines on Kauai Originally the site of an ancient heiau, or Hawaiian temple, the 32-acre valley on Kauai’s southern shore later became host to iconography of another religion: 88 Buddhist shrines. Measuring no larger than a dollhouse, the series of sacred monuments were built by Japanese émigrés in 1904;…
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