Façade, Cabaret de l’Enfer, Paris, c. 1900. Via cabaret.
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Eclipses luminarium summa fide et accurata diligentia supputatae, ac figuris coloribusque suis artificiose depictae, quarum rationes ab anno domini 1554. usque in annum domini 1600. se extendunt et ad meridianum Viennae Austriae referuntur by Cyprian Leowitz.
As my Latin is seriously poor these days, I’ll use BibliOdyssey’s translation so as to not embarrass myself: Accurate coloured depictions of solar and lunar eclipses covering the years 1554 to 1600 with Vienna, Austria as the point of reference.
Peacay at BibliOdyssey: “The only information I can glean from the web suggests that Leowitz was a Bohemian astrologer and a contemporary of Nostradamus. Most (very very brief) citations mention that his notoriety centres on his having predicted that the world would end in 1584. I think that assertion was made in 1568 and a comment at one site opined that he was hedging his bets by publishing luna/solar data for the time subsequent to the predicted apocalypse (my first thought here is that the author is conflating two publications of Leowitz from different times.)”
More here.
In 1942, photographer I. Russell Sorgi followed a police car to the Genesee Hotel, where Mary Miller sat on an eighth-floor ledge.
“I snatched my camera from the car and took two quick shots as she seemed to hesitate. … As quickly as possible, I shoved the exposed film into the case and reached for a fresh holder. I no sooner had pulled the slide out and got set for another shot than she waved to the crowd below and pushed herself into space. Screams and shows burst from the horrified onlookers as her body plummeted toward the street. I took a firm grip on myself, waited until the woman passed the second or third story, and then shot.”
It is prudent not to put virtue to too serious a test. I would use American virtue as sparingly as possible lest we wear it out.
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
This day in 1945: the Belsen war criminals.
Discovered via Uncertain Times v.ii.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
“He was surprised to discover that the suitcase was full of black-and-white photographs. He was even more astonished by their subject matter: devastated buildings, twisted girders, broken bridges — snapshots from an annihilated city. He quickly closed the case and made his way back home.
“At the kitchen table, he looked through the photographs again and confirmed what he had suspected. He was looking at something he had never seen before: the effects of the first use of the Atomic bomb. The man was looking at Hiroshima.”
Discovered via Neatorama.
