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I love the stories we tell as history and the artifacts we pore over to try and learn more about others. History is my favorite subject to teach and study.
Doctor Koch and his “Immense Antediluvian Monsters” By Douglas E. Jones
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A weekend history puzzle for fans of old magazine ads.
Though the association is unconfirmed, many believe that the ruined farmhouse at Top Withens was the inspiration for the setting of the Earnshaw house in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. A plaque on the wall reads, “This farmhouse has been associated with “Wuthering Heights”, the Earnshaw home in Emily Brontë’s novel. The buildings, even when complete, bore no resemblance to the house she described, but the situation may have been in her mind when she wrote of the moorland setting of the Heights. — Brontë Society 1964. This plaque has been placed here in response to many enquiries.” It’s a hesitant recommendation to be sure, but that doesn’t stop fans from flocking there.
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According to his former personal secretary and biographer, Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis’ magical land of Narnia was inspired by the real-life town of Narni, 50 miles north of Roman in the hills of Umbria. Though as far as anyone knows Lewis did not actually visit the place, so the inspiration may come from name and history alone (the town has been written about by the likes of Tacitus, Livy and Pliny the Elder), there seem to be a few mysterious similarities between the two lands — the castle overlooking the valley, the lake with silver waters — that may be cases of coincidence, art imitating life or life imitating art. Who can tell?
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Southern Spaces: An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections
This is an article about the connection between music and factory production during WWII.
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This is an article about what new troops would expect entering the Army during WWII.
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry edited and selected by WB Yeats (1888). Lovely stuff.
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A pair of man's socks, 'čarape' or 'čorapa'; handknitted by Macedonian village women.
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From an interior point on the Columbia River, Oregon. Pine logs in rafts 800 feet long and 52 feet wide are towed 1000 miles via the Pacific Ocean to San Diego, California where they are transformed into lumber.
Family making artificial flowers in their house in 1910. The youngest is 3 years old
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The Genesis Of The Dining Fork in European Dining; Renaissance Art and Article, The Two-Pronged Approach.
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Another cultural constrast. The two men are seated in a typical Muslim tent -- this style appears also in Persian art from both earlier and later -- which is decorated with a band of writing around the top. The Muslim is in a long loose tunic with wide sleeves. He may wear an under-tunic as well--look at his extended arm -- I can't tell if it's sheer with wide sleeves or has tight sleeves. He wears a headwrap and a cloth that covers the sides of his head, his neck and his shoulders. His long straight sword is suspended from a red belt or cord that goes over his right shoulder and under his left. He is wearing socks or undyed boots on his feet. The Christian man is bareheaded and either clean-shaven or with a small trimmed beard (hard to see in this fuzzy reproduction). He wears a light, possibly sheer, tunic or cotehardie, and over this what appears to be a vermillion sideless surcote lined with fabric of a different color - in other pictures, not reproduced here, it appears likely that the skirt of this seeming sideless surcote is long and loose in the rear and used as a cloak. On his feet are red hose or boots.
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Another constrast, in this case with only slight differences, between the clothing of men of two different religions. Both men are fully bearded and both wear long, round-necked, loose tunics with long, moderately wide sleeved. The Muslim's may be belted. The Muslim also wears a shoulder wrap of some sort. The Jewish man has a long opaque veil over his head which appears to extend down at least to his knees. It is unclear whether they are wearing undertunics, as their hemlines appear to be layered.
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Two fully bearded men are dressed as Arabs in long sleeved long heavy tunics bare of any decoration which appear to be unbelted. They wear complexly wrapped turbans of narrow striped cloth over pointed hats, with one loose end dangling by one ear. Both also appear to be wearing black shoes or slippers. The one on the right wears a fairly long wrap around his shoulders and legs which is fastened in some way at his throat.
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Medieval Egyptian-style knitting project: Scoggers/Arm Warmers
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Eleventh Century Brocade Fragment with Cheetahs and Hawks Egypt
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