February 2012
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Saved from the Titanic: A woman’s story (1912) →
“This dramatic and compelling first-person account of the Titanic’s demise and some of the passengers’ rescue shares many heartrending and unforgettable details. Then, at the end of the story, we have compiled a brief epilogue to let you know what happened to Charlotte Collyer and her 8-year-old daughter Marjorie after they finally made it to America.” via archive Americana This is...
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A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895 →
Don’t go to church in your bicycle costume.
Don’t wear laced boots. They are tiresome.
Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.”
Don’t scream if you meet a cow. If she sees you first, she will run.
Many more important “Don’ts” at Brain Pickings
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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird. (via paperbackgirl)
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Letter from the prostitute that didn’t want... →
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German soldiers preserved in World War I shelter... →
Twenty-one German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed.
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The Forgotten Serial Killer →
“In a previous, agricultural era, Mary Ann Cotton’s activities would have been watched, reported upon and controlled by her neighbours and their informal surveillance.
Only in the age of water power and steam were people free to leave their agricultural past behind them and shift restlessly from one settlement to another. In so doing, they could become whoever and whatever they wanted to...
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“Something of the awe and terror of crime itself should cling round the figure of...”
– John Dickson Carr, “The Detective in Fiction,” 1932. (via chryselephantine)
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Boston 1775 →
“Even today, archaeologists tracing the campsites used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their historic expedition across the Great Plains from 1804 to 1806 can still rely on the relatively high mercury deposits to be found in the soil where the explorers dug their latrines.”
~ Read more at Boston 1775
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Human Wormholes
“There are people who live long enough to create a link — a one-generation link — to figures from what feels like a distant past, and their presence among us shrinks history. When “Long Ago” suddenly becomes “So I said to him …,” long ago jumps closer.” Fascinating article at NPR
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