Russian writer Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907 pic.twitter.com/HmUFkVUmPr
— ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) February 9, 2015
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907 pic.twitter.com/HmUFkVUmPr
— ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) February 9, 2015
Early google glass “@oldpicsarchive: Inventor Hugo Gernsback is Demonstrating His Television Goggles in 1963 pic.twitter.com/JfgOo9c5Ip”
— Tiffany Shlain (@tiffanyshlain) February 9, 2015
Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume (1482). "In case of need I will make big guns.” http://t.co/5dS5OviXBr pic.twitter.com/J63e53wOcu
— Open Culture (@openculture) February 7, 2015
105 years ago today, Virginia Woolf and friends pranked the Royal Navy in drag and turbans http://t.co/KweJc9shMF pic.twitter.com/1AmTRnUe9w
— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) February 7, 2015
A great story. As much as I appreciate the comments about the way media works today, the best observation in the story belongs to Quentin Bell: (Even Bell, decades before 9/11, writes wryly: “We have all grown more solemn and serious and ‘security conscious’ and a part of the fun went out of life after [World War I].”)
A yawn is a silent scream for coffee. Reminder thanks to @LePainQuotidien pic.twitter.com/J2gsapAr3R
— LEAF (@LEAFtv) February 5, 2015