Atlas
These pages of mine are only some of many to be lost in on the web. Allow me to share with you some exceptional, interesting, or otherwise fascinating pages and reads that you may wish to explore, beyond the bounds of my domain.
Art, Manuscripts
Approaching the divine, Il Gesù, Rome
Fashioning luxury from a coconut
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art
Hiding the divine in a medieval Madonna
The history of ink, including its etymology, chemistry, and bibliography
If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink
The landscape remade, Thiebaud's Ponds and Streams
The Medieval Bestiary — animals in the middle ages
Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology
Mosaics and power in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
Nature as Refuge: Gong Xian's Eight Views of Landscape
The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera
La plante et ses applications ornementales
Sacred geometry in a Renaissance ceiling from Spain
Saintly violence? Santiago in the Americas
Bodies, Health
Clothing, Dress
Fashioning the bourgeoisie: a history of clothing in the nineteenth century
Global trade and an 18th-century Anishinaabe outfit
How Did Victorian Ladies Stay Warm in Winter?
A knotted puzzle buried for a millennium
La marinière — le style de marin
Eating, Food
A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year
Burger Invasion: The History of McDonald's and Disney
The book of Jewish food — an odyssey from Samarkand to New York
How This Socialist Sausage Changed the World
The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome
The Real Story Behind Fanta's Nazi German Origins
The Rise and Fall of White Bread
Without a Source for Salt, This Tribe Created a Delicious Substitute
Listening, Speaking, Music, Languages
Can You Experience an Emotion If You Don't Have a Word for It?
How Ravel Writes for Orchestra
Rhapsody in Blue: How Gershwin Broke the Mold
Nature, The World
'Forest gardens’ show how Native land stewardship can outdo nature
How the waters off Catalina became a DDT dumping ground
Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest
Natural History Museum of Rotterdam's Mollusk Database
The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit
The woman who will help keep seaweed-eating sheep on an Orkney beach
Societal History and Analysis
Below the Surface — The archaeological finds of the North / Southline
To Build an 18th-Century Ship, Shipwrights Had to Remaster a Lost Craft
Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow
Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
The Downfall of Henry Ford's Secret Country in Brazil
Line Goes Up — The Problem with NFTs
Stories, Media, Fiction
Alexander, the Servant, & the Water of Life
The Book of Wonderful Characters
Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny
Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space
"Moby Dick" d'après le roman de Herman Melville
The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love
A Year Later, I Still Can't Stop Thinking About Disco Elysium
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo
Wikipedia
Long-time nuclear waste warning messages
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker