Melodious Plot of Beechen Green

[macrolit]

Literary history that happened on 26 July

[humanoidhistory]

Apollo 11 astronauts Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong hang out in quarantine after returning from the Moon, July 26, 1969.

[calvinandhobbes-rss]

[history-of-fashion]

Morning jacket (matinee) (1825-1830) and skirt (1830-1840)

cotton rep, cambric, cotton with imitation quilting

(MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp)

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[heavensghost]

You don’t have to belong everywhere (textile home)

[h4h4n0tfunny]

This one got me good 🤣

[themanwhooncedweltinavault]

[yodaprod]

Wham! (1985)

From the documentary trailer WHAM! 10 Days in China (2026)

[vintagetoyarchive]

GILBERT: 1965 JAMES BOND 007 Action Figure

[portalibis]

Zoroaster Clavis Artis, c. 1738, MS. Verginelli-Rota, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma 

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[nemfrog]

Koi. Japan, Home of the Sun. 1963. Kikuko Mori, illustrator.

Internet Archive

[lullabyes22-blog]

I'm sorry but you absolutely cannot strip Jane Austen's work of Regency politics and social etiquette without the entire narrative collapsing into nonsense.

Modern writers need to stop treating Austen’s world like a generic, pretty fairy tale, and start remembering that her books were actually razor-sharp critiques of a brutal socioeconomic landscape with examinations of class, gender, power and money that are still culturally relevant today.

[pastoraleglatine]

Yes!

[oldshrewsburyian]

“Increasingly, I have found myself reading about the past. It is a retreat, of course. I know that. Nonetheless, there is something peculiarly comforting in reading about events that have already happened. This as opposed to those that seem to hang, half-formed, above one’s head.”

— The Dig, John Preston

[nemfrog]

The crickets' party. St. Nicholas songs. 1885.

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[mutable-wings]

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

— William Shakespeare, from The Tempest

[pastoraleglatine]

Summer and it’s time for quintessential Queen Anne’s Lace.