Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topicsUn laboratoire pour la peinture,Un blog s'adressant aux collectionneurs en utilisant les technologies de traitement de l'image,Recherche en histoire de l'Art,collections,peintures anciennes,XVIème,XVIIème,XVIIIème,XIXème,siècle
From personalsit.es
A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in a series of paintings called 'Re-membering.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Wangari Mathenge’s…
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Via Newspapers.com One for the “mini mysteries” file: This unresolved poisoning case was reported in the “South Wales Argus,” February 8, 1934. How did cyanide of potassium, used for electro-plating, find its way into a teacup from which a girl of 20 drank tea and died shortly afterwards? This was…
From Kagi Small Web
An essay on the legacy of Marvin Minsky with programmable interactive simulations
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James Carville Goes To Gettysburg and Finds Donald Trump It’s a reductionist view of our history that tells us very little about the Lost Cause and MAGA. White supremacy never needed to be resurrected after the Civil War. It had always been present and not just in the South. Collapsing MAGA on to…
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Weedon Island Preserve is a 3100-acre county park located in St Petersburg, Florida. It is a wildlife refuge encompassing a series of islands in Tampa Bay, consisting mostly of mangrove swamp and slash pine/cabbage palmetto scrub. But its primary importance is as an archaeological site, centered…
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October 29, 1921 - Centre College of Kentucky defeated Harvard University in what the New York Times called “arguably the upset of the century in college football.” On that fateful date in 1921, Harvard hadn’t lost a ga...
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Historical predictions from the Scottish Nostradamus.
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Blog über Windows 98, Windows 95, MS-DOS, C64, Downloads, Nusb, Retro Gaming allgemein und Zoom Player
From personalsit.es
In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled fetal lambs? Or perhaps a medieval misapprehension of cotton? Thom Sliwowski traces the roots of this…
From The Public Domain Review
A digital commonplace book on education, IndieWeb, mathematics, information theory, biology, history, economics, humanities, note taking & related topics.
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the classic 1962 manifesto, on increasing human capabilities
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'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years…
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Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.
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a visualization of the infamous WWII encryption device
From Explorable Explanations
After 17 years, Foursquare’s ending is written. Writing this to share my opinions & frustrations with the final years of the company, and to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ’s legacy.
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Two friends tell the story of their friendship through every generation of K-pop.
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A family tree of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism on one chart: 180 dated firsts, 140 branches and schisms, each dated by its first surviving evidence and linked to the cited chapter. Free poster, CC BY.
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What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
From The Pudding
This is a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter of WWII, in 1:144 scale, FDM printed on my old Ender 3. It's a very simple model with virtually no surface detail at all, and I don't recall who designed it or where I got it. It was some considerable time ago. I have no immediate use for it, as I…
From Kagi Small Web
seven companies published eight papers between them, and the arithmetic worked because the tokyo shimbun comes off the chunichi's tokyo presses. they put their local news on one shared domain in 1998 and kept it there for nineteen years, straight through the arrival of the kyodo-backed portal that…
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A research catalogue of traditional attributions, anonymous writers, and later compositions Yes. This is an important companion to the biblical […]
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DIESEL THE MAGUS: THE FATHER OF AŠA AND THE REOPENING OF DIVINE HISTORY I. INTRODUCTION AND COGNITIVE RE-ORIENTATION The academic […]
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That's this stretch.
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