1. Japan’s Love Hotels Feature in François Prost
Definitely need to stock this one at the Cabinet.
2. These paintings of Paris by a lesser known impressionist
By Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow (1847-1906).
3. Really nice news: an anonymous donor gifts $3.54 M. to Milwaukee Art Museum to Make Admission Free for Kids
Found on Art News.
4. One Minute Park
Just when you think the internet is losing its creativity, a great little website like One Minute Park comes along, that allows you to visit parks from around the world for one minute each.
Need a break? Spend one minute in a park.
A lovely project by Elliott Cost, found via Swiss Miss.
5. A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. Found on Open Culture.
6. A nostalgic look back at 90s movie making
7. This pretty Spanish mountain town will pay you to relocate there
The postcard-pretty town of Ponga is located in the heart of the Picos de Europa mountain range, surrounded by lush river valleys, and is offering £2461 to newcomers willing to relocate there.
Found on The Spaces.
8. The original Goldilocks was an old lady
“Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is a 19th-century English fairy tale of which three versions exist. The original version of the tale tells of an impudent old woman who enters the forest home of three anthropomorphic bachelor bears while they are away. She eats some of their porridge, sits down on one of their chairs, breaks it, and sleeps in one of their beds. When the bears return and discover her, she wakes up, jumps out of the window, and is never seen again.
Found on Wikipedia.
9. A British News program explores the mystery of the Cottingley Fairies in 1976
10. Dubbed “one of the worst fossil reconstructions in history,” the so-called “Magdeburg Unicorn” first appeared in 1663
Unearthed at Seweckenberge, a German steppe known to contain ice age fossils, the remains of a wooly rhinoceros — a prehistoric cold-climate megafauna that roamed throughout Asia and Europe as early as 500,000 years ago. Since the wooly rhino was not yet described by science, Prussian naturalist Otto von Guericke (1602–1686) drew the most logical conclusion, based on the evidence: obviously a unicorn. Around 1668, von Geuricke allegedly created the bone assemblage that today stands on display at the Museum of Natural History Magdeburg.
Read the full article on Hyperallergic.
11. 1,065 Unique Dog Names from the Middle Ages
The 15th-century manuscript that contains The Names of All Manner of Hounds was sold at auction at Sotheby’s in 2006 for £198,400.
Some favorites: Charlemayne, Mery, Elfin, Liȝtfote, Corage, Dygger, Frankeleyne, Olyuere, Offa, Ercules, Ector, Gille, Absolon, Belamy… and Hosewife?
Found on The Medievalists.
12. In 18th-century Naples, spaghetti was a popular street food eaten with bare hands and became a tourist spectacle
Article found on Gastro Obscura.
