memento mori
@tenposike
just a little scrapbook where i reblog posts on the topic of death and posts that celebrate life and history. no original content. content warning for death, possibly unreality and occaisonally outdated language
if percy shelley were alive today, i know for a fact he would be a huge hit on tumblr dot com.
TBH he’s a big hit on tumblr dot com anyway
Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.
The thing you have to understand about cards like this, that I think is not obvious from the original post, is WHY librarians did this. Because for every question like this there were a hundred that were perfectly answerable, and to save the process of looking up that answer the next time, librarians would record and file the question and answer. These were the original FAQs! And then every time someone called and asked for the height of the Empire State Building or when is the president’s birthday or what have you, it’s right there on a card and you don’t have to dig through reference books to find it.
Cast enamel bat necklace, 1900 France.
ASCII art 10,000
“It’s something to do” sIR—
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1904
I love how humans discover this rare new sight in far distant space, and immediately go “That looks like a part of me.” A vast dust cloud from an ancient star, and we see ... the tips of our fingers.
Good ol’ humans, always making things relatable.
(Anyway it also looks like the rings of a tree.)
vintage 1970s one of a kind custom galaxy boots, originally bought from a place called ‘rainbow cobbler’ in north beach sf
A 5,200-year-old pottery bowl discovered in Shahr-e Sukhteh (Burnt City), Iran has five sequential images painted around it that seem to show phases of a Persian Desert Ibex leaping up to nip at a tree. On this ancient piece that can be called the first animation of the world.
poetry-siir
