Olá Pessoal! No mundo, há mais de 1 bilhão de pessoas com fome e o Brasil ocupa o 9º lugar em número de pessoas que não tem o que comer. Sem comer a pessoa não tem como trabalhar, ir à escola e sequer viver. Vamos fazer barulho! Envie agora uma mensagem, através do site Vencer a Pobreza Juntos, para os parlamentares para que o direito à alimentação seja incluído na Constituição Brasileira. Para ajudar, acesse o site e preencha o formulário com nome e e-mail: www.vencerapobrezajuntos.org.br
A definitive list of life hacks that will actually simplify and improve your everyday life. This selection of 55 life hacks were hand-picked from our two previous posts: 50 Life Hacks to Sim…
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The magnificent Grand Opera House was located in Toronto. A century-old cold case is the disappearance of the theatre's owner, Ambrose Small.
Photograph by Francis Hammond Jewelry Cabinet This jewelry armoire was designed for Marie Antoinette by the cabinet maker Jean-F...
Recent government lockdown measures have seen many people embrace new hobbies and pastimes to fill their days, including reading books. In today’s blog Dr Charles Moreton, senior research fel…
Wife selling began in the late 1600s when divorce was an impossibility. The practice continued into the 1700s and 1800s and generated the belief that if a
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I’ve encountered some interesting tidbits my two years in Mongolia, but some were not enough to stretch out into an entire post. Here’s a few bits of miscellaneous items I’ve lear…
Futility Closet: An Idler’s Miscellany of Compendious Amusements collects some of my favorite finds in a career of dedicated curiosity-seeking: lawyers struck by lightning, wills in chili recipes, a lost manuscript by Jules Verne, dreams predicting horse race winners, softball at the North Pole, physicist pussycats, 5-year-olds in the mail, camels in Texas, balloons in the arctic, a lawsuit against Satan, starlings amok, backward shoes, revolving squirrels, Dutch Schultz’s last words, Alaskan mirages, armored baby carriages, pig trials, rivergoing pussycats, a scheme to steal the Mona Lisa, and hundreds more. Plus a selection of the curious words, odd inventions, and...
There were plenty of interesting stories in the 1860s but some of the most interesting English miscellany was small tidbits found in British newspapers that covered topics from fires to death to a woman's bust measurement.
While normally I post on Mondays and Thursdays, I'm making an exception today to share with you a fantastic graphic on tea, my favorite beverage. Not science-y or intellectual, like many of the graphics I share, this is simply intended to make you one of the more sophisticated people you know. Enjoy this little gem.
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How many times have you heard this annoying, and utterly frustrating question: Why are you so quiet? Honestly, I stopped counting after a thousand. Every INFJ has heard this tiresome question many times in her/his life. It goes without saying that it makes us feel nauseous every single time. Sometimes we draw ourselves into […]
"The Knowing One taken in," artist unknown, c.1760, Walpole Library. Jack Tar is being taken in by a woman of ill-repute. This is not the first nor the last time this will befall a hapless sailor. As he leans in for a kiss, she lifts his purse to make a tidy profit. Jack wears a rather nice set of slop clothes for his shore leave. An untrimmed black cocked hat, worn reversed, is nearly tipping off the white locks of his bob wig. His dark blue jacket with its cloth covered buttons sports a collar. Beyond that, we can see a neatly tied and clean white neckcloth. Judging by the white peeking out from behind the lapel of his jacket, we can safely assume he wears no waistcoat. At the small of his back is a button topping the vent of his jacket, and in line with that is a long flap pocket that runs along his waist. A close look at the mariner's cuffs (complete with matching blue cloth covered buttons) reveals a detail we've seen before: a white strip of fabric running across the open cuff. Perplexed as I was by this, I turned to an expert: Neal Hurst. Neal is a Colonial Williamsburg trained tailor, a research fellow at Winterthur, and an all around 18th century clothing guru. When I showed him the above detail, Neal remarked "I have only ever seen this in Banyans before. They are like half sleeves that start just below the elbow and then end at the wrist." He went on to theorize, as I also suspect, that this may have been to protect the shirt beneath from the tar and grime that comes along with shipboard work. Considering the sailor's fad of leaving the cuffs of their jackets open, this seems to be a solid theory. Neal mentioned that "there is also a hunting suit at Febreig Hall in Norfolk UK with false sleeves in the interiors," but that "I've seen it on maybe three garments. You see true false sleeves in the nineteenth century."
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