Headless Portraits from the Victorian Era on i09 http://io9.com/the-creepiest-headless-portraits-from-the-victorian-era-472678985 Vincze Miklós The Creepiest Headless Portraits from the Victorian Era We all know that people messed around with photos long before there was Photoshop. But you might not have realized how crazy the Victorians were about headless portraits. They literally lost …
Listening to Records That No Longer Exist~ from Slate http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/04/04/patrick_feaster_discovered_a_way_to_listen_to_vanished_gramophone_recordings.html Check out Rebecca Onion’s article in Slate about creating “an audible sound file using only an image of a record”!!! If the original disc holding a gramophone recording has been lost, you might infer that the sound the recording once …
Person of Interest: Sarah Emma Edmonds (December 1841—September 5, 1898) Sarah Emma Edmonds as Franklin Thompson From the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Emma_Edmonds “Sarah Emma Edmonds… was a Canadian-born woman who is known for serving with the Union Army during the American Civil War… During the Civil War, she enlisted in the 2nd …
A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895 http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/donts-for-women-on-bicycles-1895/ “The following list of 41 don’ts for female cyclists was published in 1895 in the newspaper New York World” * Don’t be a fright. * Don’t faint on the road. * Don’t wear a man’s cap. * Don’t wear …
Read The Steampunk Daily ▸ today’s top stories via @UturnUtopia @sepiachord @vonExplaino ▸ http://paper.li/nancyoverbury/steampunk?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub … Lady Excelsior Presents The Best of Tragedy Series Volume One~ Shared by Jordan B sepiachord.com – Lady Excelsior Presents The Best of Tragedy Series Volume One~ I’m a big fan of Benjamin Dewey’s Tragedy Series and …
The Steampunk Informant is out! http://paper.li/ThomFOLeary/1326665872 … ▸ Top stories today via @MikeSavad @sepiachord @suzannelazear Read the US government’s rules for Yeti hunting from 1959 http://io9.com/5987216/read-the-us-governments-rules-for-yeti-hunting-from-1959 “During the 1950s, oil magnate, adventurer, and cryptozoologist Tom Slick traveled through the Himalayas searching for evidence that a Yeti. Slick was obsessed with searching …
Read The Steampunk Daily ▸ today’s top stories via @christinerose @Boyofbow @sepiachord ▸ http://paper.li/nancyoverbury/steampunk … http://www.theonion.com/articles/rotting-smell-in-congress-traced-to-decaying-senat,31395/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29 Academic fencing (German akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations (Studentenverbindungen) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and to a minor extent in Kosovo, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and …
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: Typhoid Mary http://www.victorianadventureenthusiast.com/Mary.html HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: Typhoid Mary Historical Perspective: Typhoid Mary I’ve always been struck by the things that terrify people. There have been a staggering number of movies and books that frightened the hell out of the audience by featuring characters trapped in a remote area (all …
National Museum of London uncovers earliest sound recordings of Christmas~ from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20772246 Curators discover first recordings of Christmas Day By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Christmas for the Wall Family in 1902. A formal affair and a time for music and hymns Curators at the National …
If U.S. Cities had Kept Their Original Names from Crass Talk: http://crasstalk.com/2011/02/infographic-if-u-s-cities-had-kept-their-original-names/