Arctic Fever

“The history of the Arctic is long, rich, varied, and so too is its future. Where we are today is just another brief moment in its history.”

The Large British Steamer Bulldog, the American Ship Nautilus, and Other Ships at Nuuk, 1860 (title translated by Richard Margolis) by Aalut Kangermiu (also known as Aron of Kangeq), from the first issue of the Kalaallit (Greenlandic) newspaper Atuagagdliutit, 1 January 1861. Photograph: Thomas Fisher rare book library

Arctic Fever is a newly opened exhibition on 19th-century Arctic exploration at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher rare book library. It finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsession.

Read more: The Guardian

'57 CHEVY

Billy West  bought this ’57 Chevy in 1968 for just $375.  He’s been driving it for 58 years. What a sweet ride!

 

More: Just A Car Guy

Barnacle Geese Flying Over Edinburgh

Occasionally barnacle geese, usually keen to keep to the British coastline when in flight, are forced inland because of poor weather. When this happens, the lucky inhabitants of cities like Edinburgh will be lucky enough to witness the flight of a whole flock as they make their way further north.

(The Ark In Space)

Artwork Of The Day

A 3500-year-old drawing of a sparrow from the collection of the Met. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’

Read more: Kottke

When Life Hands You A Snowstorm…

 

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Via Kraftfuttermischwerk 

Artwork Of The Day

 Ama Liyanage

6pm on a Thursday, 2025

Watercolour on Paper

Photograph Of Niagara Falls Canada

English businessman, Hugh Lee Pattinson, used new daguerreotype technology to record spectacular areas of the world. In British North America, he took the first photograph of the falls at Niagara in what became Canada after confederation July 1, 1867. 

(Photographic Historical Society of Canada)

Postcards from the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05

Russo-Japanese war postcard of the Japanese sun seeing off the Russian bear

On February 8, 1904, Imperial Japan launched a war against Tsarist Russia. which left left hundreds of thousands dead. Picture postcards were a new mass-produced mode of communication and millions of postcards of the war were made and distributed worldwide.

A celebration of victory in the Russo-Japanese war

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emory - dirt (official video)

300 handmade ceramic tiles, a pretty stop motion animation by julia fernandez

Waking a sleeping rabbit by surrounding him with tomatoes

Via Memo Of The Air