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Our gratitude to Language Log for giving us a chance to revisit the truly inexhaustible figure of Eadweard Muybridge ( see previously ), ...

Via the New Shelton wet/dry , we learn that the US Bureau of Land Management is using freeze marking to brand and identify wild burros an...

Medalling for Team USA for the first time in the category of men’s gymnastics since 2008, it was fun to read the profile of this newly ha...

The revitalised linkroll of Mx Tynehorne’s cabinet of hypertext curiosities reminds of another venerable old school Wunderkammer, very m...

Born on this day in 1924 and later adopted as a weeks’ old filly by Clarence and Claudia Fonda of Richmond, Virginia, and trained by Mrs...

Through his 1899 patent for the above automobile mast or grill that fronted the steed of a horsed-carriage to cause less distress in mixe...

spyvibe radio : The Man Called Flintstone and other cartoon-espionage crossovers   hosanna, hin-nam : Palm Sunday from the donkey’s perspe...

aquifer : new research suggests that rocky exoplanets may have ways to sequester and protect their water until their host stars stabilise  ...

Based on the title novel by Glasgow veterinary surgeon Alf Wight (writing under the pseudonym James Herriot), Bill Sellars’ comedic drama se...

Using a battery of dozen cameras capturing a single image in rapid succession, shutters activated once an object crossed a trip wir...

Courtesy of JWZ , we are treated to another campaign from Visit Iceland (see previously here and here ) that invites travellers to rel...

Whilst we wouldn’t forget that .horse is a viable web domain owing to the landing-page of the excellent Carrie Poppy ( see previously...

Though this kind of exact date for something semi-legendary, laden with cultural baggage and millennia hence is notoriously hard to pin...

Though considered the foundational work of pony fiction--that genre of juvenile novels involving teens and learning equestrian skills—Anna ...

This fifteenth spirit on the demonological calendar is this infernal grand duke that presents in the form of a handsome knight armed with a...

On this day, medieval Christendom—though most popular in France—commemorated the Holy Family’s Flight into Egypt to with a celebration ...

Via the always intriguing Strange Company we are directed towards one explanation of the common apirition in the southern Welch Yuletide c...

Also known as Saint Eligius, the namesake of the hospital of the US television series St. Elsewhere (the nickname being a professional sl...

Discovered by eighteen-year-old Marcel Ravidat and three friends when his dog, Robot, fell into a hole on this day in 1940, the four compani...

In one of the first official acts recognising and treasuring the environment, the Royal Court of Sicilian Heritage (Tribunale dell’Ordine de...