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Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8

4 days ago

Eighth instalment in our series of extremely small and free-form cryptic crossword...

A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2

4 days ago

Papal elections begin, in 2025 and 1268.

As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade

4 days ago

In the 19th century, dyed ostrich feathers were haute couture, adorning the...

Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis

4 days ago

Aby Warburg spent his life finding forms that could hold their own...

Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)

4 days ago

Images gathered during a survey by Ferdinand V. Hayden, who was responsible...

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

5 days ago

Woodcut knots likely inspired by Mamluk decorative metalwork.

Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)

11 days ago

A 1925 Soviet Children’s book about a little screw whose importance is...

Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7

18 days ago

Seventh instalment in our series of extremely small and free-form cryptic crossword...

“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte

18 days ago

In 1902, a woman named Mary MacLane from Butte, Montana, became an...

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

19 days ago

Photographs of the life-size doll that Kokoschka had made to resemble his...

Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

25 days ago

Images from a ritual practised for 127 generations.

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

26 days ago

Pamphlets on sea beasts produced for the International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883.