Sunday, October 11, 2020

Sunday Links

Photography: Pygmalion Karatzas

Thessaloniki Metro Under Construction  (Great photographs) Via perfect for roquefort cheese

Camaraderie and collective strength thrive in the winding lanes of Nupi Keithel: A Portrait of a Market in India Run Solely by Women 

The Gordon Sisters Boxing

Tanqueray, Humans of New York Star “When this photo was taken, ten thousand men in New York City knew that name.They’d line up around the block whenever I was dancing in Times Square, just so I could sign the cover of their nudie magazine.”

I think the World's Most Expensive Peanut Butter Sandwich is an abomination.

Gbadolite: The Versailles of The Jungle Via Miss Cellania

A very good collection of  'Then And Now' Pics Via Things Magazine

This is an interesting story: Why are these graves in Niagara-on-the-Lake on sovereign Polish land?  Every year since the Spanish flu outbreak in 1919, people have made a pilgrimage to the town to honour the Polish men who died at a military training camp — and the “angel of mercy” who cared for them.

When you want to ingratiate yourself with your cat but nothing seems to work: How to Do the 'Cat Smile' and Make Cats Fall in Love With You

A Tapestry of Thrones presented in the form of an interactive map, allowing you to pan around the whole 77 meters of tapestry.

Estimates of the total population loss are as high as 40 percent. In some cases, entire villages were abandoned after all the adults died, with children raised by relatives or in orphanages, without the languages or cultural practices that ought to have been their birthright. How Alaskan Yup’ik People Are Reviving the Culture Lost to the 1919 Flu Thanks Bruce!

B-sides that were more popular than their A-sides

This made me gag: Tattoo Artist Specializes in ‘Secret Tattoos’ on the Roof of the Mouth

Topografia dell’Inferno di Dante - an interactive view of Dante Alighieri's hell. Via

This looks like the market from hell: Yakutsk Open Air Market at -49F via Memo Of The Air

Jiayang Fan misses Chinatown’s Muscadines “They’re like a summer-camp boyfriend. By August you think, I’m gonna have to part with you soon …”

The rats evicted from paradise: Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century invasion of black rats arrived, setting the whole atoll’s ecology hurtling down a different path. Thanks Bruce!

Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet

In 1950s France an architectural style named Architecture-Sculpture emerged. Now two examples of the movement are on the market.  A Space Pod Palace Built on a Neolithic Burial Ground 

The Woman with the Afro: The Story of Barbara Beese

The entresol is the floor between the rez-de-chaussée (ground floor) and the first floor proper (sometimes called the étage noble). The name literally means “between floors.” 

Ancient Canadian village discovered that’s older than the pyramids

And last but not least: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Baroque Music

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