I drool in my sleep

May 30 2018

So this fellow managed to survive the first eruptions from Mt. Vesuvius only to be…crushed by a rock. Talk about meeting a cartoon death. Well, when your time’s up, it’s up!

(Source: qz.com)

Mar 22 2018

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publicdomainreview:

While imprisoned on St Helena, Napoleon started learning English. Within three months he could make sense of a newspaper. But spelling and pronunciation proved trickier. One resident of the island called his English “the oddest in the world”. More here: https://buff.ly/2Dr3fbw

Hee. Oh how I would love to have been around to hear that. Must’ve been a hoot.

(this post was reblogged from publicdomainreview)

Feb 16 2018

A list of Isaac Newton’s sins

jkottke:

In 1662 when he was 19 years old, Isaac Newton sat down to a fresh notebook and wrote out a list of the sins he’d committed “before and after Whitsunday of that year”. They included:
Eating an apple at Thy house
Making a mousetrap on Thy day
Making pies on Sunday night
Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them
Wishing death and hoping it to some
Striking many
Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese.
Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee
Punching my sister
Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
Calling Dorothy Rose a jade
Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne.
Denying my chamberfellow of the knowledge of him that took him for a sot.

Stephen Hawking gives a short biography of Newton at the end of A Brief History of Time, and it begins with

Isaac Newton was not a pleasant man. His relations with other academics were notorious, with most of his later life spent embroiled in heated disputes.

One wonders if Newton ever felt any regret for these transgressions as he grew older, or if he just decided “I’m a fucking genius; to hell with being nice.”

(this post was reblogged from jkottke)

Sep 13 2016

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icphoto:

#ICP50
During World War II, Dorothea Lange photographed Japanese-American internment camps for the U.S. government’s War Relocation Authority.
📷 Dorothea Lange, Pledge of Allegiance, San Francisco, 1942

This photo was taken at Raphael Weill School in what was “Little Tokyo” in April 1942, meaning these children were still living at home at the time. By about a month later, however, every Japanese-American–including all the ones in this photo–would have been sent to internment camps. The Museum of the City of San Francisco has more information here and here.

(this post was reblogged from icphoto)

Feb 28 2016

Anaheim, yesterday vs. Boston, 1976. Across the country and 40 years apart, yet nothing seems to have changed.

Dec 07 2015

scmpnews:

It’s perhaps not surprising that grave robbing has a long tradition in China – after all, Chinese civilisation stretches back several thousand years. But a 21st century twist is turning this age-old crime into an epidemic. Inspired by get-rich-quick yarns and a series of popular novels, young migrant workers and peasants have teamed up in the thousands through internet chat rooms to loot historic tombs in key provinces.
Click and have a look at everything you need to know about grave robbery in China http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1885832/chinas-ancient-treasures-under-siege-army-tomb-raiders

SMH. I don’t know what’s worse: looting a cultural heritage…or faking it?

(this post was reblogged from scmpnews-deactivated20180205)