Weekend Linkages: Lock Me

...Turn-of-century Berlin and more on cheerful Art Nouveau postcards ‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online Removing a motorway to bring back the original waterway How to tie a trucker’s hitch...

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Weekend Linkages: Spring Brain Dump

...‘Les Animaux Mythologiques’ by Hinzelin Emile, (1857 – 1937) US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’ Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Did Pope Gregory IX Order A Medieval Purge of Black Cats That Caused the Black Death? Christianity Was Always for the Poor The night people All the buildings on Sunset Boulevard...

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Weekend Linkages: Do you see what I see?

https://youtu.be/7hgzkLGFLe8?si=tj_YFv9Yuw0A7iLk A harrowing and heartbreaking video from a very talented filmmaker, Brad Abraham about the late conspiracy theorist and artist David Dees. Abraham casts a compassionate eye on the haunted spiritual margins of our society. His feature length documentary, Love and Saucers is also well worth viewing. Nick Cave on Loss, Yearning, Transcendence https://youtu.be/QDHXykm_Yj0?si=2FikvURd8CDfbXZb Also, putt...

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