MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack “Under it all there’s a sort of strong, dark pulsing, the dimly recorded echo of the thundering rhythm: trombones, sousaphones (named after your man, of course), drums. The dynamics build to a controlled climax, the sound getting heavier and heavier as …
StanisÅ‚aw WyspiaÅ„ski — Self-portrait Gwen John — Self-Portrait Thomas Eakins — Self-portrait Pablo Picasso — Femme aux Bras Croisés John Singer Sargent – William M. Chase, N. A. John William Waterhouse – The Crystal Ball Abanindranath Tagore – The Passing of Shah Jahan William Orpen — The Chess Players Walter Osborne — Tea in the …
Or alternatively, Le Voyage dans la Lune and some other short films from 1902. The first film in our selection is a true leap forward for humanity, probably the first film that really stands up 116 years later, both as a very watchable story and as a work of art. If you’ve never watched it …
A staple of weird history sites, the Poison Squad were a self-selected group of healthy young men who willingly ingested food laced with untested food additives including formaldehyde and Borax. From their brave efforts come the foundations of the US FDA. Stuff You Missed In History Class have an episode about them, usual provisos about …
Everyone knows that the calendar we use makes very little logical sense, but once such a fundamental standard it set, would anyone ever go to the trouble of trying to change it? Well, it turns out that the answer is yes – Moses B. Cotsworth did, and he got surprisingly far too, until the more …
Here’s one of those stories you might reasonably consider to be an old shaggy dog tale, but which turns out to be the work of a single author, adapted ad infinitum since its publication in 1902. It has a novel concept, and a nice subtle extra twist, but having read a lot of Poe and …
116 years before the combination of uncanny valley CGI and the voice of James Corden, a minor Childrens’ publisher put out a small run of picture books about a naughty rabbit. This book immediately lifted its 32-year-old author out of obscurity and went on to be one of the best-sellers of all time. Before I …
From Excavated Shellac, the story of one of the first adventures to record the music of the rest of the world. Likely the music was baffling to these engineers from America. Up to that time, the normal recording repertoire for the Gramophone Company was what one might expect. It primarily consisted of Western classical …
When I was four or five years old I somehow acquired a Ladybird Horror Classics edition of ‘The Hound of The Baskervilles’. This one in fact: If that cover, or the equally terrifying illustrations within weren’t enough to scare a young child, the book also came with a cassette. The “horror” theme of this publication …
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January 30th – Scott’s Discovery Expedition reaches the Great Ice Barrier in Antarctica March 6th – Real Madrid F.C. are founded April 5th – The Ibrox Stadium stands collapse during an England-Scotland match – 25 are killed, 517 are injured April 11th – The South African Army fights a last, disastrous battle against the British …
