Guardians of Transportation
These circa 1929 elevation drawings depict one of the four Guardians of Transportation pylons designed by Walker and Weeks for the Lorain-Carnegie (Hope Memorial) Bridge. WRHS.
h/t to The Daily Timewaster
History
Teddy
Teddy Roosevelt gave us the Imperial Presidency through sheer force of will.
Lysistrata as a Comedy
One of the things that I love about Twitter is that if you are prudent about who you follow, you can find some of the most remarkable information about history, archaeology, literature, and other complex topics, often posted pseudonymously.
Case in point, this thread on Lysistrata by Aristophanes Skinner Box.
Slavic Marches
I’ve always enjoyed maps. A good map can convey information in an incredibly concise way. And they are of course useful for navigation.
However, you do need to be careful. As an example, I saw this map that purported to show the political divisions of Europe circa 1000 A.
The Long View: Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War
John J. Reilly covers a lot of ground here. I’ll post this comment as inducement to read the rest:
The book delivers less than its subtitle promises. A study that used the world wars to explain the evaporation of colonialism between the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
Mythical and Submerged Lands of the World
Robert E. Howard and other pulp era writers were pretty good on anthropology, but a little less good on plate tectonics and catastrophism.
Which isn’t to say there weren’t some astonishing things in the geologic record,
Hans Holbein: Capturing Character
At First Things magazine, Jane Coombs writes about the art of Hans Holbein. I used Holbein’s portraits of St. Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell to illustrate John J. Reilly’s review of Peter Ackroyd’s The Life of Thomas More because Holbein’s portraits so vividly capture the personalities