indemnity clause: a look at the exactingly detailed Sanborn maps created for US insurance firms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
unseen persia: thousands of historic photographs of Iran during the Qajar dynasty leaked on-line from the archive of the Golestan Palace
sweet thing: Chaka Khan’s debut Tiny Desk performance
bahรญa de cochinos: Russian warships on drill visit Cuba
doubly-disambiguated bishop non-capture statemale: a vlogger tries to categorise the rarest chess moves
transponder: wood proves surprisingly durable material in space as agencies plan to launch experimental satellites, like ships on the high seas—via the Linkfest
1337: a pretty exhaustive list of English words that can be spelled on a calculator turned upside down
hollywood canteen: a fond farewell to Janis Page, recently departed at 101
the brannock device: a better shoe-sizer based on the barley corn
gallus gallus domesticus: photographer recreates exacting portraits of Edo-era Ito Jakuchu’s studies of chickens—via Nag on the Lake
geochron: the incredible restoration of 1960s analog, electromechanical world clock and map
