1. The historical facade of an 1890s building in Cincinnati was revealed during renovations
Found on Viewing Mag.
2. The Crown’s end of an era auction of sets, costumes and props at Bonham’s
Experience the exceptional craftmanship and creativity behind The Crown with a special exhibition of the sets, costumes and props from series 1 – 6, touring New York, Los Angeles, Paris and London — ahead of two auctions at Bonhams in February 2024. Currently exhibiting in London until 5th Feb.
More found on Bonhams.
3. These 1920s Beach Pyjamas
Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll (right, pictured with his fiance) known for the unsolved case surrounding his murder and the sensation it caused during wartime in Britain. Found on The Rake, in an interesting read about the controversial lives (and deaths) of the Happy Valley set — a group of white, western expatriates who, between the 1920s and forties, turned a slice of Kenyan highlands into a hotbed of colonial debauchery.
4. Inside Alessandro Michele’s apartment in Rome
Alessandro Michele is the former creative director of Gucci. Found on Vogue.
5. This dollhouse
Found here.
6. Anatomical models of a pregnant woman and a man, 17th century
Nuremberg, ca 1680, Ivory, cloth, silver borders, wood, cardboard box. Length of the figure: ca 15 cm
Found on Kunstkammer Georg Laue.
7. Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest
Start listening here. Found via Swiss Miss.
8. Hippie Lingo
Found on Grooveland.
9. The Staircase
Charles Willson Peale, Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I), 1795, oil on canvas, 89-1/2 x 39-3/8 inches / 227.3 x 100 cm, found at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
10. The Early History of the Channel Tunnel
More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel.
Peter Keeling drills into the history of this submarine link, and finds a still-relevant story about the cosmopolitan hopes and isolationist panic surrounding liberal internationalism. Full article on The Public Domain Review.
11. The Depths of the Earth, put in perspective
12. The Woman who spent 500 Days in a Cave
Beatriz Flamini liked to be alone so much that she decided to live underground—and pursue a world record. The experience was gruelling and surreal. Read the article on The New Yorker.
13. The story of failed supersonic airport that now lies abandoned in a US swamp
There’s a relic runway from America’s failed supersonic future hiding in the Everglades. The Everglades Jetport was doomed by sonic booms, a failed Boeing supersonic airliner and environmental protests.
Found on Jalopnik.
