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Japanese monster toys bow & apologize for destroying cities at a press conference podium. They include Godzilla apologizing for destructive vandalism (破壊行為), Mechagodzilla for...
AN INDO-URALIC LANGUAGE TREE. The Indo-European language family and the Uralic languages like Finnish, Estonian & Hungarian are most likely entirely unrelated, although some lingui...
THE EARLIEST WRITING IN BRITAIN The earliest surviving writing from Britain is not Anglo-Saxon, it isn't Roman and it isn't Runic or Ogham script - it's the inscriptions on Celtic...
A HAUSA ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT A Hausa Allo hide, covered with beautifully written Qur'an extracts, magical & protective texts and an intricate scheme of talismanic drawings of in...
Jakob Jakobsen's "An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland", published in two vols in 1928 & 1932, still stands as the unrivalled source book of information on t...
Printed in Korea in 1377, 78 years before Gutenberg, this is the world's oldest known book printed with movable metal type. Known by its abbreviated name of "Jikji", only a single...
Owen Simmons' 1903 "The Book of Bread" was intended as a technical guide for commercial bakeries, but looking at the extraordinary photographs now, more than a century later, the s...
'Blotter Art' dates from the 60s, and refers to the colorfully-designed printed and perforated tab sheets originally soaked with liquid LSD for distribution & sale. Undosed blotter...
"Etidorhpa, or, The End of Earth; The Strange History of a Mysterious Being; The account of a remarkable journey" John Uri Lloyd, first edition, 1895. A journey to the earth's hol...
A mesmerising, almost incomprehensibly perfect spiral, engraved with a possum incisor hafted to a bone shaft, on the slate surface of an Aboriginal churinga representing the Janpan...
THE SAXON GOSPELS The Heliand is an epic poem in Old Saxon written in the 9th century. The title means saviour in Old Saxon and the poem is a Gospel paraphrase that recounts the li...
DO NOT READ WHILE EATING. Soviet propaganda poster, 1926. 1/ https://t.co/zaeMPlOlrD