Sunday Links

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In an iconic photo (above) from 60 years ago, four young African American men sit at a Woolworth’s lunch counter and stare resolutely back at the photographer behind them. Behind the counter is a young busboy. His name was Charles Bess. Here is his story.

In 2015, Signed, Sealed and Undelivered began to research a 17th-century trunk of letters that once belonged to a pair of Dutch postmasters. Via The Morning News

A stream of AI generated Art from an AI artist that was trained on a carefully selected set of cubist art pieces. Via PfRC

Mercury In Transit Mercury orbits the Sun once every 88 Earth days but the three bodies align only about 13 times a century. See the ‘Mercury transit’ that occurred on 11 November 2019.

Celestial observatory in an extinct volcano in the American desert is set to open after 45 years 

I'm a fan of documentaries and have seen 18 of these: 21 Documentaries That Redefined the Genre

This week commemorates FDR’s internment of Japanese-Americans: Front pages from a Japanese-English newspaper at the time 

You Can Hear Pearl Jam’s New Song By Pointing Your Phone At The Moon

A list of open access image libraries 

Perfect for blogging? A beautiful cantilevered poet's writing studio over forested hillside

“A Very Speedy Way to Be Besotted”: How the English Found Cannabis

A Guide to Midwestern Conversation Cute.

Artist Reimagines Animals as Big Friendly Giants The thought of my wildcat, Carmen, being larger that I am casts terror into my heart.

One-room schoolhouse, 1921

In the World Of a Snail Lovely macro images by Ukrainian photographer Vyacheslav Mischenko

The Upside of Upside-Down Jellyfish: The unexpected engineer of mangrove ecosystems is a jellyfish that swims the wrong way.

Toronto's Winter Stations structures built on Toronto's lakefront encourage visitors to play outside in the freezing winter. Via PfRC

Patient plays violin during brain surgery

The Construction of the Forth Railway Bridge It remains an incredible feat of 19th century engineering.

17th Century Death Roulette ☠️: see what you might’ve died from in 1665. Via Memo Of The Air

Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud?

Jeannette Montgomery Barron's black and white portraits of artists in New York in the 1980s 

And finally: Mardi Gras Recipes for Fat Tuesday