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The most fun I've had in a while: An album of medieval manuscript facsimiles begun by St John Hornby, and then taken over by JR Abbey. In it they pasted in facsimiles of manuscripts they had bought or desired, annotating them with their success and failures in acquiring them

Some of the artwork from the "Madeline" books really is stunning. Unfathomable to imagine it appearing in children's books today.

Books. As things should be.

One of the giants of Windsor Castle’s Royal Library: John James Audubon’s Birds of America. 4 volumes, 435 hand-coloured, life-size bird prints—so big they were made on rare “Double Elephant” paper. [📹 royalcollectiontrust]

The gateway to Hadlow Castle in Kent. The castle was a building from the 18th century in the then fashionable gothic style of Strawberry Hill. It was largely demolished in 1951.

However the tower remains, a magnificent folly the tallest of its kind in the UK. It survives thanks to the artist Bernard Hailstone (1910-1987) who bought it. Badly damaged in the the Great Storm of 1987 and restored with funding from the National Lottery. Now a private house.

A church built like a patchwork time capsule. This is Surb Gevorg (St. George) in Ayrk, Gegharkunik (Armenia)—a small 13th-century “Katoghike” church where khachkars (cross-stones) are literally set into the walls like carved signatures from different centuries. Look closely:

Dear old people, waking up at 6am, tending to a garden, eating dinner at 5pm, reading books, and going to bed at 9:30pm feels amazing. I was wrong. You were right.

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Halley's Comet, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. The comet was seen over the skies of England in April of 1066

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that

The exterior of the Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton is just as wild as the interior. All modelled in terracotta by villagers using Mary Seaton Watts's designs

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Buying hand-bound artisan editions of Puritan works from sketchy magic book Etsy shops

Heidi The History Mouse

Great post. Bobby Fischer was a singular figure of his time. If you ever go to Iceland, you can visit his grave at Laugardælir Church and leave something if you'd like. Not far from Reykjavik. An easy addition to the standard visit.

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