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I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
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Plate from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe by Thomas Wright, 1750.
The new Monopoly ‘celebrates women trailblazers.’ But the game’s female inventor still isn’t getting credit.
Antonia Noori Farzan • Article
For a millennium, rivalries between and among Byzantine noble families propelled public life, with the kind of bloody factional maneuvering that makes the Tudors look like the Waltons in comparison.
Though political power was usually a male privilege in Byzantium, a striking feature of the Byzantine tales is the prominence of women as political play... See more
Though political power was usually a male privilege in Byzantium, a striking feature of the Byzantine tales is the prominence of women as political play... See more
Edmund White • The Misunderstood Byzantine Princess and Her Magnum Opus
Edison's Eve, Gaby Wood
I think this is the person who has ever fascinated me the most, even though he is a great man, not a great man, the truth is that I can't understand how the hell he did everything he did.
On both days, the extraordinary beauty of the flame arising from the funeral pile was noticed. The weather was beautifully fine. The Mediterranean, now soft and lucid, kissed the shore as if to make peace with it. The yellow sand and blue sky intensely contrasted with one another: marble mountains touched the air with coolness, and the flame of the... See more
Clay Franklin Johnson • Gothicized, Glamourized, Mythologized: The Funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Gothic Keats Press
Leigh Hunt describes P.B. Shelley’s funeral. Source: https://tinyurl.com/k3cfab6s