[via:mummila]
18 August 2008
21 July 2008
Time: Was Jesus’ Resurrection a Sequel?
“A 3-ft.-high tablet romantically dubbed “Gabriel’s Revelation” could challenge the uniqueness of the idea of the Christian Resurrection. The tablet appears to date authentically to the years just before the birth of Jesus and yet — at least according to one Israeli scholar — it announces the raising of a messiah after three days in the grave. If true, this could mean that Jesus’ followers had access to a well-established paradigm when they decreed that Christ himself rose on the third day”
[via:About: Altreligion]
20 July 2008
Sopranos inspired painting sold for record price
Federico Castelluccio, who played a hitman in the critically acclaimed American television show The Sopranos has painted a portrait of the series’ lead characters, Tony and Carmela Soprano. The work is inspired by Piero della Francesca’s 15th century painting of Federico da Montefeltro and his wife Battista Sforza.
[via:Notcot]
11 July 2008
Nostalgiakauppa (instant Hicksville!)
Some examples of Finnish traditional rural/working class clothing: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Finland wasn’t really urban until the 60’s and 70’s, some people have authentic memories of clothes like these being widely used.
5 July 2008
Dissection of early 20th century racist neuroscience paper
The article provides a look into some arguments used in lousy 19th and early 20th century science papers produced with the goal to produce evidence to support racial segregation.
“Some racial peculiarities of the Negro brain is the title of a long and technical paper by the anthropologist Robert Bennett Bean, published in the American Journal of Anatomy in 1906. It is one of a series of scientific papers written by Bean in the early 20th Century, in which he tried to provide scientific evidence of the inferiority of black people. … between the years of 1905-1907,[Bean] was an instructor in anatomy at the University of Michigan. It is during this period of his life that Bean began his investigations into “the Negro brain”.”
4 July 2008
Yemen town has “world’s oldest skyscrapers”
“Shibam …, Yemen, is considered to have the world’s oldest skyscrapers. It has about 7,000 inhabitants …, the town’s house are made out of mud bricks. Some of these structures rise 5 to 9 stories high … in order to protect residents from Bedouin attacks. While Shibam has existed for around 2,000 years, most of the city’s houses come mainly from the 16th century.”
[via:NOTCOT]
2 July 2008
1917 US propaganda: Gee!! I wish I were a man, I’d join the Navy.
“A WWI recruiting poster from 1917 by artist Howard Chandler Christy showing a young woman in a Navy uniform: “Gee!! I wish I were a man, I’d join the Navy. Be a man and do it. United States Navy recruiting station.”"
30 June 2008
Movie to watch: Waltz with Bashir (animated Israeli anti-war documentary)
Waltz with Bashir, ex teenage soldier Ari Folman’s attempt to put together pieces of suppressed memories from his possible participation in e.g. a massacre during the Lebanon War of the early eighties, seems like an important movie. From Times:
“… the film’s most damning moment is reserved for the then Israeli Minister of Defence, one Ariel Sharon. An interviewee recalls that when he informed the minister in a late-night phone call that a massacre was suspected, Sharon said “Thank you for bringing it to my attention” and promptly went back to sleep.”
29 June 2008
A gallery of 35 anti-U.S. Chinese political cartoons (circa 1958-1960)
“Culled and restored from reviewing hundreds of Eastern newspaper pages and illustrations, this set of 35 images represents what we consider the best late 50s editorial cartoons (Manhua) from China and Indochina. Set during a time of escalating western imperialism, these images react against U.S. military actions in Laos and Vietnam, and represent a unique moment of political commentary. It seems to be a hidden history, too. It’s with some pride that we indicate most of these comics have never before been re-published, and even fewer have ever been exhibited or documented for U.S. audiences.”
Shorpy, the 100-year-old photo blog
“Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.”
22 June 2008
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Carlos_segundo80.png
A serious case of inbred royalty. My mother is also my cousin!