#OTD the poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) in 1888.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_at_the_Bat

Books about baseball at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=baseball

#poetry #sports

‘Am I not at least something?’ A surreal dive into Descartes’s Meditations

https://aeon.co/videos/am-i-not-at-least-something-a-surreal-dive-into-descartess-meditations

Meditations on First Philosophy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23306

#books #literature #philosophy

1,600-Year-Old Mosaic Unveiled for the First Time Ever in Western Negev

In northwestern Negev, near Kibbutz Urim and the Gaza Strip, the 1,600-year-old Be’er Shema mosaic has been unveiled to the public for the first time.

By Eva Baron

https://mymodernmet.com/beer-shema-mosaic-western-negev/

#archeology #history

Meet Marguerite, Henri Matisse's Eldest Daughter—and One of His Most Influential Models.

An exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris examines Marguerite’s indelible influence on her father’s evolving painting styles

By Eli Wizevich

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-marguerite-henri-matisses-eldest-daughter-and-one-of-his-most-influential-models-180986684/

#art #painting

Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

By Jeremiah Bartz

https://theconversation.com/prime-numbers-the-building-blocks-of-mathematics-have-fascinated-for-centuries-now-technology-is-revolutionizing-the-search-for-them-249223

Prime numbers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=prime+numbers

#mathematics

Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell”: Bringing Dante’s Inferno to Life

"Auguste Rodin’s The Gates of Hell is the greatest unfinished masterwork of the famous sculptor that illustrates Dante Alighieri’s vision of eternal suffering."

https://www.thecollector.com/rodin-gates-of-hell-dante-inferno/

Books about Rodin at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/25054

The Three Shades - for the top of "The Gates of Hell" From the book "Auguste Rodin: The Man - His Ideas - His Works" by Camille Mauclair at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50665

#art #literature

Vienna calling: Strauss's 'Blue Danube' waltzes into outer space

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci‑fi classic "2001: A Space Odyssey".

by Blaise GAUQUELIN

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-vienna-strauss-blue-danube-waltzes.html

Why Medieval Europeans Were Bad at Swimming

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/medieval-europeans-swimming/

THE BREAST STROKE.
Beginning of the stroke from "How to Swim: A Practical Manual of Swimming" by James H. Sterrett at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70397

#history

Electric Fish and the First Battery

Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, the earliest electric battery, in part because of his investigations into the torpedo, an electric ray fish.

By: Danny Robb

https://daily.jstor.org/electric-fish-and-the-first-battery/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mcae&utm_campaign=jstordaily-05282025

Alessandro Volta at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=alessandro+volta

#books #science