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WEBShiny and Chrome. A site called Chromeography collects chrome logos and typography from vintage cars & electric appliances. As I was looking through these, I wondered: “What the hell is chrome anyway?” So I looked it up:. Chrome plating (less commonly chromium plating) is a technique of electroplating a thin layer of chromium onto a metal object.
The Surprising Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776
WEBAug 13, 2013 · For the Journal of the American Revolution, Todd Andrlik compiled a list of the ages of the key participants in the Revolutionary War as of July 4, 1776. Many of them were surprisingly young: Marquis de Lafayette, 18 James Monroe, 18 Gilbert Stuart, 20 A
Honor and Respect: how to address President Obama and Donald …
WEBJan 23, 2017 · Robert Hickey is the deputy director of The Protocol School of Washington, which provides etiquette and protocol training. In his book Honor & Respect, he covers the “correct written and oral forms of address for everyone from local officials to for
The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave - kottke.org
WEBMay 20, 2024 · The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave. The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the world’s most iconic pieces of art. Hokusai created the woodblock print in 1831 at the age of 71 as part of his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.But in some sense, he’d been working on it all of his life.
A timeline map of the 200,000 year history of human civilization
WEBFeb 22, 2018 · This animation shows how humans have spread and organized themselves across the Earth over the past 200,000 years. The time lapse starts with the migration of homo sapiens out of sub-Saharan Africa 200,000 years ago, with a few thousand years passing every second.
Public Work: A Fast Search Engine for Public Domain Images
WEBJul 31, 2024 · Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly r
kottke.org posts about diary comics
WEBAug 8, 2024 · Goodbye for Now! And a Diary Comic. Hi, it’s me, Edith, again! I’m back with one more comic before I sign off for a while. I know I haven’t actually been blogging recently, but I wanted to make a more official “goodbye for now” post in case anyone is like, Where did Edith go? Basically I think I bit off a little more than I could chew, blogging-wise.
Listen to a Performance of Some New Mozart Music
WEBSep 25, 2024 · Researchers say the music fits stylistically with other works from the 1760s, when Mozart was between the ages of 10 and 13. Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the foundation, tells Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that the young composer was no longer creating pieces that sounded like this one by the time he was in his late teens.
Highlights from Normal People by Sally Rooney - kottke.org
WEBJun 27, 2019 · Highlights from Normal People by Sally Rooney. Based on a recommendation from *gestures around at almost everyone*, I started and finished Sally Rooney’s Normal People in the space of a couple of days last week. Her prose is straightforward yet somehow not, and I found plenty to highlight on my Kindle.
An online collection of high-res scans of M.C. Escher’s prints
WEBMay 8, 2018 · The Boston Public Library has digitized their collection of M.C. Escher prints; browse the whole collection here. The level of zoom you can get to with these images is amazing. Traveling to Spain in 1936, Escher visited the Alhambra for the second ti