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The Art of Portugal Fish Cans
November 15 is the Portuguese National Day of Canned Fish. In June, Lisbon hosts a raucous Sardine Festival, an event dedicated to the city’s patron saint, St. Anthony. The county has a rich history...
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Exaggerated Fruit On Vintage Postcards – c.1910
Collected by William L. Bird, curator at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (previously here, here, here, here and here), these postcards show us just how big fruit and...
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Coffee And A Song With Moriz Jung In Pre-War Vienna
The Vienna cafe was a bourgeoise institution when Moriz Jung (1885-1915) was making art. It was where the middle class, lawyers, students and the bohemian city’s intelligentsia spent most of their...
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34 Photos From A Walk Around Tooting, South London In 1990
Like Cricklewood high street in the city’s north west, Tooting Broadway in south London follows the path of an ancient Roman Road. Peter Marshall took a walk along it in 1990, taking photos of the...
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Jan Toorop And His Art Nouveau Salad Oil Style
Jan Toorop made this spellbinding Art Nouveau poster for the Nederlandse Olie Fabriek (The Dutch Oil Company) to advertise the company’s “salad oil”. The poster became known as the “salad oil style”....
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Famous Photographers Share Their Recipes For 1970s Food and Drink
In the late 1970s, New York’s George Eastman Museum (the world’s oldest photography museum asked leading photographers to send them pictures of their favourite meals and pictures to go with them....
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children...
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in...
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s...
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The...
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also,...
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty...
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife...
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here...
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