Friday, September 30, 2011

Jörg Wilhalm Huter: an Early 16th c. Fechtbuch

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Huter, Jörg Wilhalm: Fechtkunst - BSB Cgm 3711 Bayerische Staatsbibiothek dates this to 1523 A high resolution scan is available sammlungen....
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

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The Pastrana Tapestries—among the finest surviving Gothic tapestries—will be on view together for the first time in the United States at the...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Time-lapse View of Earth from Space

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You may want to embiggen this.
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Dawn Flies Around Vesta

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Animation based on images from Dawn's framing camera.
Friday, September 09, 2011

What Is This?

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I have a theory, but I don't want to prejudice you. The owner was born in 1852 and died in 1931. The head is iron or steel. The han...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Incandescent Hypocrisy of Mike Griffin

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The former NASA head that brought you the failed, ill-conceived Constellation project does not like NASA's current approach to human sp...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

What a Pas d’Arms Was and Was Not

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The Pas d’Arms was a very specific format for medieval deeds of arms. It always involved a specified number of defenders agreeing to meet ...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

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At the Philadelphia Museum of Art . Well worth seeing if you live close enough. For me the high points were two different versions of the Hu...

Endeavour Crater

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Image : NASA Opportunity has reached the rim of Endeavour Crater , 14 miles in diameter. Click on the image for a larger view. I wro...

Best Wedding Photos Ever.

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Here. Thanks to Amy Victoria Lindey.