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The Burke & Hare Murder Dolls are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh's notorious Anatomy Murders. I’ll be in Scotland next month and will check them out at the National Museum. (image above)
Just do it. Okay. Here we go. Yeah, boy. That’s what I’m talking about. Via everlasting blort
We Are the Girls That Kill the Rats.This was just one of many vital and often physically demanding tasks undertaken by the Land Girls, who stepped in to fill the agricultural labor gaps left by men serving in the armed forces during WW2. (Via Memo Of The Air) This reminds me of “The Lost Garden” a lovely book by Helen Humphreys (a favourite author of mine) about a woman who leaves her London, England, horticultural duties analyzing diseased parsnips to supervise a band of Land Girls who will grow vegetables on a country estate for the war effort.
Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the1990s? I aced this quiz. If it had asked questions about notable people today I would have flunked.
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'The Sitter' How one short film changed horror forever.
The world’s best house museums I enjoy visiting house museums and have been to eleven of these. (There are more superb house museums that I liked very much which are not on the list.)
The angular shape of Tesla Cybertruck Shoes combines brutalist architecture with futuristic design. I hope they don’t burst into flames.
Irish Kitepower (Via PfRC)
Stanley Kubrick’s last-minute ending change to ‘The Shining’ included a deleted scene. Link via PfRC
RIP Bill Dilworth, caretaker of The New York Earth Room.
I don’t want to miss this Wes Anderson Exhibition at the Design Museum in London.
Where the Horses Swim In The Ocean Beautiful photos of racehorses wading into the sea in Barbados to train and stretch their muscles in the cool saltwater.
He’s just found a second virus. Maybe they should start calling him Dr. Pepper.
I live at the base of the Niagara Escarpment and my gym is at the top. It’s not a very long walk but it is very steep and I have a bad knee and am prone to shin splints so I always drive. Maybe these videos would help me get up and down more easily.
“In the second half of life, we’re all expected to say how much happier we are than in our insecure twenties, how we wouldn’t swap places with our younger self, oh no, not even if you paid us. Hmm. Sometimes I feel that way, but not always.” 27 Notes On Growing Old(er) Via Web Curios
I think the The Cat Cure has had a paradoxical effect on me.
Camille Clifford’s iconic Gibson Girl, had a classic hourglass figure. (I imagine there was some heavy duty corsetry involved.)
Hunting For Kobyla: The true story of a runaway Nazi, a determined sleuth, and a chase around the world.
Is the current news cycle wearing you down? These Contemplative Landscapes by Noah Kalina will wash some of the nastiness away.
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