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I found this nice association copy of an unusual pamphlet 1--the work is on the Lowenbrau brewery in Munchen (with a nice bird's-eye view of the massive works), and it was given once upon a time to ...
[(DONALD, W(illiam) H(enry)] The subjoined letter written by Mr. W.H.Donald, Confidential Advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, gives a detailed account of the present situation in China. It has ...
This simply irresistible, charmingly uncomfortable, and semi-surreal title is an excellent example of what I've come to know (and forget) in my career of doing whatever it is I'm doing. Generally ...
Sometimes when you look hard enough you will see (if not actually "find") what you're looking for; determined to make a discovery, you can sometimes force yourself into believing that what you're ...
Frederick Kiesler (Director of the Laboratory of Design-Correlation, Columbia (University) School of Architecture) has been called one of America's most influential non-building architects of the 20th ...
“The bees were made of sugar and honey, and so made them sting so sweet…” Billy “Craggy” Muffle singing on the French Broad River , 1935. Punched into the New York Times for 24 October 1909 was this ...
Lots of these images have to do with walking and falling, walking and falling at the same time, walking and catching yourself from falling over and over again, but in general that walk is only one ...
All material quoted below is from the magnificent The Newton Project website, which contains transcriptions of Newton's writing in science, alchemy and religion, and also contains much correspondence.
Women, weak women, women with iron-poor blood, were sought by the manufacturers of Nuxated Iron, a small-bottled mottled mess that promised to increase vigor and iron levels, mostly through miracle.
[Click image to enlarge; both original images are available for purchase from our blog bookstore.] It isn't often that you see money represented by dry measure, but that's what happened here in these ...
Nothing quite says "bizarro" like the bizarre 1--and there has been plenty of that on this blog. There have been a number of places that I have identified as Bizarro Worlds, but so far it seems that ...