Sunday Links

The Best Photos Of The Spectacular One-Off 1965 Dodge Deora Pickup Truck (It became the prototype for a Hot Wheels car, and plastic model kit.)

“Take two pigeons with white feathers and feed them on pinenuts for eight, or rather fifteen, days; then butcher them and throw away the head, feet, and guts; put [the rest] in an alembic and distill with half a loaf of sweetened bread and four ounces of true silver, three gold ducats, four heels of white bread that has been left to soften in goat’s milk for six days . . . distill all of this over low heat, and it will produce a most perfect water to give color to a pale complexion.” Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance 'Books of Secrets' 

The largest insect that ever lived: It had a wingspan of some 28" with a body length of around 17."

Achtweet! Useful German words for these difficult modern times

The Ladybugs Singing In The Bathroom  Via

Imagine an old leather-bound book just pulled out from a wooden shelf. Its yellowed pages release dust as they open. Even before you begin to read the book, the unique smell of it fills your nose. The people trying to save scents from extinction 

Maybe Trump would stop complaining about his toilet if he had one of these.

Hiking to Scotland’s most remote pub In the beginning, there was the pub. And the people saw that the pub was good. Thanks Bruce!

The Golden Chapel Hidden Away In Fitzrovia I've roamed this area plenty of times but have never seen this chapel. It looks like a lovely spot to take a break from walking.

The Schienenzeppelin in Berlin, 1931 

In-Flight Surgery using fork, knife, coat hanger, and cognac. Via Miss C

Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana In the 80s and 90s Ghanaian theater owners commissioned local artists to paint promotional movie posters, giving them complete creative freedom to paint whatever would sell tickets to their audiences.

What the #@*% is a grawlix?

Things You Might Not Know About Wolves

The Chicago Political Quote Hall of Fame

40 years of Fresh Air Via PfRC

This story. Wow!  Lauren Groff: Birdie

 Misused Quotation Marks Make Things Weird

Why Do So Many Medieval Manuscripts Depict Violent Rabbits? Via Hal, myFB pal

7 July: Sam Barnett has been on the Pride march. ‘Four and a half hours! I wouldn’t have agreed to be homosexual if I’d known it was going to take that long.’ Playwright Alan Bennett's 2019 Diary 

An extensive list of fictional institutions Via 

List of triple tautonyms Via Things

‘Please Try to Help Us’: Conversing With Mississippi Inmates on a Contraband Phone 

14th-Century Illustration of Venice Is the Oldest Found Yet  The drawing accompanied one friar’s first-person account of a trip from Venice to Jerusalem and Egypt.

The idea was simple: Break the speed record for “fastest to ever visit all 50 states” but also run a 5k while in each state. I could not do this. I run 3.2 km 2 or 3 times a week and I hate it. Via

Company sells square tip knives to help reduce knife violence 

Deaths of Despair: Who Killed the Knapp Family?