nothing beats this angle man 😭🔥

Today I have cleaned-up a fascinating Autochrome of the 6th Paris Air Show, photographed on 22nd December 1919 within the Parisian Grand Palais. It was photographed in colour by Georges Chevalier 107 years ago and isn't colourised.

The incredible opening shot from Dead End (1937) blends miniature effects, forced perspective and clever editing — and nearly 90 years later, it still looks fantastic.

The trouble with Hegseth is that he thinks he's George C. Scott in Patton, but in reality comes across like George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove.

This mapping of mentorship lineages among painters, from the mid 15th c. to the early 20th c., made by one of the rare classical painting ateliers (workshops) still teaching both canon and traditional skills, L’Escalier, is truly extraordinary.

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yl-IXJ

Some KJV onlyists and 1650 Scottish Psalter types will argue that “thou” is more reverential, little understanding that this is an anachronism. The Reformed argued for a familiar mode of address for God. And “thou” was the familiar term you used with your wife every day.

Korea shut off its low skilled guest worker program and it caused no increase in native born hiring and caused more employed natives to do less skilled and lower paid work.

Glassware found in a 5th century AD royal tomb in South Korea. The glass was made in Rome.

Anna Alma-Tadema, teenaged daughter of the more famous Lawrence, shows her prodigious talent in these paintings of the Drawing Room at 1A Holland Park ~ with Rossetti’s chalk study for ‘Mariana’ on the wall ~ and her father’s library at Townsend House (1880s)

Anne Applebaum nails it:

I stumbled over a raised paving stone and uttered “scandalous”. Obviously because the word derives from Greek skandalon meaning ‘stumbling block’.

Reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one.

E.R. Dodds casually closing a footnote with a phrase for the ages (The Greeks and the Irrational, 1951):

Aristotle: “The tyrant is also very ready to make war; for this keeps his subjects occupied and in continued need of a leader…[It is] characteristic of a tyrant’s policy…[that] the flatterer too is held in honor…those who keep him company in an obsequious spirit, which is the

Why does English not have a plural “you”? Well, it’s because “you” is already plural. The singular is “thou”. This was observed grammatically in Old English, when one person was þū and multiple people were ġē, but after the Norman invasion the plural became the polite form of

Do you remember that recent, incredibly awkward exchange between Pashinyan and Putin in the Kremlin? It was a masterclass in geopolitical trolling. Pashinyan literally looked Putin in the eye and teased him about Armenia having "too much democracy," even lecturing him on how

Eriugena, in AD 859, contrasts the sweet solemnity of hymns to the blood-drenched Christ with the ludic frivolity of the Iliad and Aeneid

“In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” — George Orwell, “1984”

REPORTER: You mentioned that, staying on as Fed governor, you intend to keep a low profile. Could you give us a little more detail on what that looks like? JEROME POWELL: *ducks down*