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Archive for May, 2010
San Francisco, Before And After
Posted in Historical Information, how we live, Uncategorized, tagged 1905, san francisco on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Music for a Sunday afternoon
Posted in music, Videos, tagged music video, Pyotr Leschenko, tango on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A path less traveled
Posted in Nature, photographs, tagged nature photography, Photographs, russian empire, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on May 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Duomo di Milano
Posted in Historical Information, photographs, tagged architectural photography, Mark Twain, Milan Cathedral, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Construction of Milan’s Cathedral began in 1385 and didn’t end until January 6, 1965 when the last gate was inaugurated. The facade alone took 238 years to complete, started in 1567 it was completed in 1805, just in time for Napoleon Bonaparte’s coronation as King of Italy. Built of Candoglia marble from a quarry used [...]
Siren is Russian for Lilac
Posted in Flowers & Other Plants, photographs, tagged lilacs, Photographs, russian empire, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tull Tuesday
Posted in music, Videos, tagged 1969, Jethro Tull, music video on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Towel Day!
Posted in how we live, Misc Holiday, tagged Douglas Adams, towel day, towels on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Towel Day! A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus [...]
Music for a Sunday afternoon
Posted in music, Videos, tagged La Cumparsita, music video, tango on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
