Wear a Mask!
This video, a parody of Be Our Guest, popped up all over social media the other day. Enjoy!
Trump in Duluth on Wednesday night, rallying his base
New tone https://t.co/munnBLOVRv
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) October 1, 2020
The Fearless Girl Tribute to RBG
How lovely is this! Someone in NYC put a lace collar on the statue of The Fearless Girl. 😢 Oh my heart. RIP RBG. pic.twitter.com/DAm9uBfke2
— Kirsty Bain 🌊🌊🌊🌊 (@KirstyBain65) September 21, 2020
Cuneiform examples
Here are examples of cuneiform from Sumeria, Iran, and Mexico. I couldn’t find the dates for a few of them, but cuneiform appeared between 4000 BC and the year 0.
Wax tablets
Here are a few examples of wax tablets—one Greek and two Roman. The first two (the Roman examples) come from
The last example is Greek:
The St. John’s Bible
Examples of Book of Hours
Here are some lovely images from various Medieval codexes. According to the Brittanica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/book-of-hours-prayer-book),
Book of hours, devotional book widely popular in the later Middle Ages. The book of hours began to appear in the 13th century, containing prayers to be said at the canonical hours in honour of the Virgin Mary. The growing demand for smaller such books for family and individual use created a prayerbook style enormously popular among the wealthy. The demand for the books was crucial to the development of Gothic illumination. These lavishly decorated texts, of small dimensions, varied in content according to their patrons’ desires.
The Danish-made Malling-Hansen Writing Ball
In The Shallows, Nicholas Carr talks about the Danish-made Malling-Hansen Writing Ball that Friedrich Nietzsche used as his vision was failing and he was worried about having to give up his writing (17). Here’s an image of this Writing Ball from John Farrier’s “Early Typewriter: The Malling-Hansen Writing Ball,” http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/18/early-typewriter-the-malling-hansen-writing-ball/).
The Writing Ball’s inventor, Rasmus Hans Johan Malling-Hansen, who patented this device in 1871, was the director of the Denmark’s institute for the hearing impaired in Copenhagen. You can read more about the device at the Neatoshop website.