Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s | Isis: Vol 113, No 2

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930sKijan EspahangiziAbstract At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called "glass diseases" seriously affected the use of scientific and technical glassware. It had become ap...

The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Ireland (1666)

The Book of Common Prayer United States England Scotland Ireland Wales Canada World The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Ireland (1666) THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK. THE Preface. Concerning the Service of the Church. ...

Highlights from our Gold exhibition - Medieval manuscripts blog

Highlights from our Gold exhibition Our new exhibition Gold opens this week. It explores the use of gold in books and documents across twenty countries, seventeen languages, and five major world religions. We show how people have used gold to communicate profound value, both worldly and spiritual, across cultures and time periods. All 50 of the objects in the exhibition are star items. But to whet your appetite, here are some of our highlights: The Harley Golden Gospels The exhibition be...

The tale of the domesticated horse

They say dogs are man’s best friend, but horses could also claim that title. Horses gave us a way to transport people and goods — literal horsepower. They changed warfare: drawing chariots, carrying the cavalry. They’ve inspired artists from Stone Age cave painters to the makers of "My Little Pony." Their role in industry may have waned in favor of machines, but they still maintain a place in sport, in leisure and in our collective hearts. Horses have been intertwined with human culture...

Planetary Symbols

☿ is the symbol of the planet Mercury. It is a reference to the Roman god Mercury who was known for wielding caduceus, a staff with two twin snakes wrapped around it.♀is the symbol of the planet Venus. Its origin is disputed with the two most common theories being that it's either a modification of the letter Φ (Phi) or it's meant to be a hand mirror in reference to the love and beauty goddess Venus. You may have noticed that it's also the female symbol in biology which is no coincidence as t...

Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum "Secretly Scanned"

 Search  GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceParthenon Marbles in the British Museum "Secretly Scanned" Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum "Secretly Scanned" By Tasos Kokkinidis March 25, 2022  Facebook  Twitter  WhatsApp  Linkedin  Email  British archaeologists have secretly scanned the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum says a report in the Daily Mail. Credit: cc-by-sa-2.0.jpg/Wikipedia The Parthenon Marbles at th...

The Book of Job is misunderstood: An alternative guide for times of war, pandemic, democracy erosion, and climate change.

The Book of Job is misunderstood: An alternative guide for times of war, pandemic, democracy erosion, and climate change. Skip to the content Ukraine KBJ Wikipedia Green Crypto Dua Lipa Deep Water Formula 1 D.C. Trucker Convoy ...

Valhalla: Is The London Bridge Nursery Rhyme Based On The Viking Attack?

Valhalla: Is The London Bridge Nursery Rhyme Based On The Viking Attack? https://screenrant.com/vikings-valhalla-london-bridge-nursery-rhyme-attack-inspiration/amp/Dark theories exist for this nursery rhyme.

On Books and the Housing of Them

On Books and the Housing of Them Clip source: On%20Books%20and%20the%20Housing%20of%20Them On Books and the Housing of Them by William Ewart GladstoneIn the old age of his intellect (which at this point seemed to taste a little of decrepitude), Strauss declared [1] that the doctrine of immortality has recently lost the assistance of a passable argument, inasmuch as it has been discovered that the stars are inhabited; for where, he asks, could room now be found for such a multi...

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The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565) – The Public Domain Review

Clip source: The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565) – The Public Domain Review The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of ...

Dwale - A Medieval Sleeping Drug in the Seventeenth-Century

Dwale was still known about in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By Dr. Elizabeth K. HunterWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research FellowQueen Mary University of London As part of my research into early modern sleep disorders, I have been examining the wide variety of sleep remedies available in England at the time.  Browsing through the manuscript receipt collections at the Wellcome Library in London, I came across one with...

Council of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon was called in 451 CE by the Roman Emperor Marcian (r. 450-457) to settle debates regarding the nature (hypostases, "reality") of Christ that had begun at two earlier meetings in Ephesus (431 CE and 439 CE). The question was whether Christ was human or divine, a man who became God (through the resurrection and ascension) or God who became a man (through the incarnation, "taking on flesh"), and how his humanity and divinity affected his essence and b...

Rosa Lyster: At the V&A

In​ the first room of the new Fabergé exhibition at the V&A (until 8 May), there is a display case containing a pinkish columnar table-portrait of Tsar Nicholas II. It is made of variegated gold, in laurels and garlands, with a gold double-headed eagle on top and a gold frame, accommodating more huge diamonds than one would think permissible or even possible, encircling a vague-looking Nicholas and culminating in a crown. It sits on little gold feet. The eagle is wearing a little gold cro...

Discussing the 1918 and 1919 flu epidemics - economic impacts

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Llewellyn the Last - Welsh Mythology

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Prophetic Mazzaroth of Adam

18th Century Post-Mortem Punishment: Gibbets ‘Hanging In Chains’ In England

The curious English have a predilection for heaping abuse upon the corpses of the unfortunate dead, including a cruel and unusual punishment the bodies of executed murderers were subject to in the 18th century, namely hanging in chains. The setting is the period running from the early years of the 18th century through to the early 19th century when English criminal law was subject to the ‘Bloody Code’. This was when there were over 220 offences for which the punishment was the death sentence...

The Order of the Thistle: A Symbol of Positive Anglo-Scottish Relations from the Medieval to the Modern Period

The Order of the Thistle has been Scotland’s highest order of Chivalry since the late seventeenth century. It is made up of sixteen members – initially limited to twelve – who are Scottish, or of Scottish descent and have contributed in a significant way to Scottish National life. Membership of the order is one of the country’s highest honours, as it is given as a personal gift by the sovereign – the leader of the order, who chooses two further royal members. The Order has always played an in...

Winchester ’73

Take Seven: Object Lessons The Myth Maker Justin Stewart on Winchester ’73 Firearms—and the violence they both enable and wreak—are as fundamental to American cinema as they are to the history of a land stolen and colonized at gunpoint and a nation whose independence (and later, union) was purchased with oceans of shed blood. When moral superintendents throughout American film history have seen fit to protect delicate sensitivities through censorship, government review, and ratings b...

Shotgun slugs are often

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-point-of-having-shotgun-slugs-as-opposed-to-bullets Shotgun slugs are often completely pointless. No, really. See this? No point. It’s round. Ba-dum-tsch! Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. In all seriousness, the purpose of shotgun slugs is to make big damn holes in things at ranges longer than where a bunch of smaller projectiles can be reasonably expected to stay clumped together to make a similar big damn hole. If you fire a load of ...

Growing Up - Sex in the Sixties by Peter Doggett review - Evening Standard

The sexual revolution of the sixties was not one single thing. For gay men, for example, it represented greater tolerance to homosexuality, through the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. This legalised sex between consenting male adults over the age of 21. For many women, the picture was positive but far from perfect. The pill — available to married women in Britain from 1961, and unmarried women from 1967 — detached sex from procreation. This made it possible for women to have sex without the fear of...

K as symbol for baseball strikeout - and O as a richly layered historical letter

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The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard's Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes | Open Culture

The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard's Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes | Open Culture Online Courses Certificates ...

The Great Schism: How the Christian Churches Split

Council of Nicaea, St Nicholas Church, Demre Turkey, 6th century BCE, via Britannica; with Pope Paul VI, Giancarlo Giuliani, 1972, via Catholicsun.org   The first serious theological disagreements which directly caused schisms in the church occurred after the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325, and again at the council of Constantinople in 381.   The priest Arius‘ denial of Christ’s divine nature was one of the reasons the Council of Nicaea convened. He embodied...