Via Boing Boing, we are referred to a curator of one of our own, older obsessions—manhole covers in this site that has meticulous catalogued, though far from complete, these manifestations of the extensive infrastructure of suburbia, numbering over eight thousand examples from over five hundred cities all across the globe.
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Via Miss Cellania , we are directed to the rather compelling 1961 biblical epic (overshadowed by others in the genre) directed by Richard ... -
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Steel magnate and prolific inventor during the late nineteenth century and second-wave of the Industrial Revolution—whose innovations were ... -
The government of president Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador has declared a clowder of nineteen feral cats that have free range of the palatial... -
Running some errands in town, we paused to take a stroll around the dry moat and Ringwall of the fortified castle complex Salzburg, with...