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burnedshoes:

Unknown photographer, ca. 1900s, Römisches Bad, Praterstern, Vienna

From the book “Wien am Anfang des XX. Jahrhunderts – Ein Führer in technischer und künstlerischer Richtung (2. Band)”, published by “Österreichischer Architekten-Verein, Verlag von Gerlach & Wiedling”, Vienna, 1906.

Built in 1872, the Roman Bath at Praterstern (Vienna) was established as a luxury facility for the upper classes for the World Expo 1873. It was one of the largest hot-air baths in the world at that time. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria visited it shortly before its opening, many monarchs, emperors and celebrities followed later. Later, the bath evolved to an important meeting place for young and old, rich and poor, until it was damaged in World War II.

anticapitalist:

1.5 million pages of ancient texts to be made accessible online

This week the University of Oxford and the Vatican announced a plan to collaborate in digitizing 1.5 million pages of rare and ancient texts, most dating from the 16th century or earlier. The project is expected to span about 4 years and was made possible by a donation of £2 million (approximately $3.1 million) from the Polonsky Foundation—a charitable organization that supports higher education, medical research, and other general matters in the arts and sciences.

Specifically, the texts will include pages from Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV). The digitized pages will include early printed books—called incunabula—from Rome and the surrounding area; Greek manuscripts including early church texts and works by Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Hippocrates; and Hebrew manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. “With approximately two-thirds of the material coming from the BAV and the remainder from the Bodleian, the digitization effort will also benefit scholars by uniting virtually materials that have been dispersed between the two collections over the centuries,” a statement from Oxford read.

The aim of the project, as envisioned by the Polonsky Foundation is “to democratize access to information, [seeing] increasing digital access to these two library collections, among the greatest in the world, as a significant step in sharing the wealth of resources on a global scale.” This is not the Polonsky Foundation’s first gift to digitize rare and ancient texts, either. An earlier gift to the Bodleian Libraries from the Foundation allowed the Oxford libraries to upload images of 280,000 fragments of Hebrew manuscripts, called the Cairo Genizah Collection, which are now available to search and view for free online.

Настроение на протяжении дня все-таки сильно зависит от ряда элементов,которые имеют место утром. Это и время сна,и приятный завтрак, музыка, общение и т.д. Если в итоге все элементы будут близкими и позитивными для человека-день как-то легче проходит. Ну а если вообще все отлично было, днем еще вспоминаешь,какое же хорошее утро было! Поэтому хочется, чтобы у как можно большего количества людей все эти элементы были позитивными. Так что включайте правильную музыку, готовьте хороший завтрак. Тогда, днем мы будем встречать меньше злобных и хмурых людей! (Навеяно своим хорошо проведенным утром. Действует!:-D)

Горло промоет первая чашка. 

Тяжесть на сердце, заботы и скуку 

Снимет вторая. Третья как дождь по иссохшей ниве. 

Пройдет по кишкам. И потом прольется четвертая. 

Гоня суету беспокойных времён. 

От пятой очистятся кости и мышцы. 

Шестая откроет божественный смысл. 

Седьмую уже и не выпить. 

Нет ничего, лишь один чистый ветер. 

Император Лу Гай династии Тан

pastisthepresent:

February 4th - Today in 1789, The Electoral College elected George Washington unanimously as the first President of the United States of America.

Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

Washington remained in office until 1797 and is to this day the only President to have received 100% of the electoral votes in a single election.

archaeology:

Millennia before modern-day Americans made fun of their politicians or cracked crude jokes over a cold one, people in ancient Mesopotamia were doing much the same thing.

The evidence of sex, politics and beer-drinking comes from a newly translated tablet, dating back more than 3,500 years, which reveals a series of riddles.

The text is fragmentary in parts and appears to have been written by an inexperienced hand, possibly a student. The researchers aren’t sure where the tablet originates, though they suspect its scribe lived in the southern part of Mesopotamia, near the Persian Gulf.

The translation, by Nathan Wasserman, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology, and Michael Streck, a professor with the Altorientalisches Institut at Universität Leipzig, is detailed in the most recent edition of the journal Iraq.

Click the link and scroll down for an ancient, incomplete “your mother” joke.