There’s a new look trending, but it’s looking a lot like the old one. Where fashion and finance blurr
Tag: historical
We are to make an entry each day, even if the entry is that nothing of interest happened. Secondly, we may not consult each other’s diaries. Finally, Clara is prone to exaggeration.
Roman historian Tacitus explains the policy of his father-in-law, Agricola, in bringing the comforts of Roman civilization to the barbarous British.
Are we doing better than a factory worker of 1914? Let’s compare wages in the currency of Model Ts.
Principle of Flocks is a NA novel about love, alternate time-lines, and the most precious commodity in the metaverse: lucidity.
“If this world had angels, they would necessarily be the fleshy kind, and she would be of it.”
Intense and passionate friendships among women in the 19th century were considered normal and healthy. This was, of course, before the spectre of homosexuality ruined everything.
This 1898 article is meant to make smashing sound unattractive.
Socrates was accused of not worshiping the right gods and of corrupting Athenian youth by teaching them logical thinking. Regardless of era, the problems of being out of one’s own time are the same.
From ‘Street Life in London’, 1877, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith In his savage state, whether inhabiting the marshes of Equatorial Africa, or the mountain ranges of Formosa, man…