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“On May 5th, at night, after walking for an hour amidst the scenery of the Avon, at this period rendered exquisitely beautiful by bright moonshine; my mind being in a state of agreeable feeling, I respired six quarts of newly prepared nitrous oxide….” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-excellent-air-bag-humphry-davy-and-nitrous-oxide

‘Tower City’ 1968, by Alex Schomburg for ‘Isaac Asimov’ by James Gunn. Image from The Chesley Awards Retrospective

Too soon to debut, but here’s my modest collection of vintage minotaurs.

Graves getting dug for the victims of a US strike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran.

Pages from a beautifully illustrated account of a journey made from Venice to the Middle East. Although the book was once purported to reflect a journey made in 1465 it is actually a German translation of an account from more than a century earlier: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/journey-from-venice-to-palestine-mount-sinai-and-egypt-ca-1467

Super Giant  ✦ スーパージャイアンツ  ✦  1957

“A ‘social situation’ as depicted by a young child.”  Psychological atlas. 1948. 

The last Calvin & Hobbes comic ran 30 years ago today.