Via the always brilliant Present /&/ Correct —please check out their sundries, we are reminded that today is Emoji Day (see previously) with the original character set as designed by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999.
this week’s popular posts
-
spitzmaus mummy in a coffin and other treasures : Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum’s guest curators, Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf siss-b... -
Via Miss Cellania , we are directed to the rather compelling 1961 biblical epic (overshadowed by others in the genre) directed by Richard ... -
An 1959 early spring testimony before an American senate subcommittee on the effects of “Red China Communes on the United States” by an Asi... -
The unusual triplicate name of the wine region of Montefiascone in Lazio (Latium) originated in a possibly apocryphal legend from the twelf... -
Proclaimed on this day in 1994 and officially adopted and flown for the first time a week later by president F W de Klerk (Nelson Mandel... -
k nock, knock, knock—who’s there : the authorship debate between William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson over the joke format charlotte braun... -
The first glass jar of the cocoa hazelnut spread by the confectionary manufacturer Ferrero left the factory in Alba on this day in 1964 and... -
the cloud under the seas : the fleet of secret submarine cable repair ships sarbox : US Supreme Court appears skeptical about charging... -
Having previously looked at the linguistic phenomenon of boomerang terms , we were intrigued by this post on Japanese borrowings and r... -
pumping iron : Technogym invites forty artists to reinterpret its exercise bench for Milan Design Week wikipedia rectangles : a collage o...