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First ever episode of Doctor Who aired on this day 60 years ago.
I'm watching the first season in weekly installments to try and recapture what it was like to watch the series 6 decades - and 14 Doctors - ago. Here's my thoughts on the first episode, An Unearthly Child.
https://legionofimpossibilities.blogspot.com/2023/11/saturday-23rd-november-unearthly-child.html
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
Edward Bernays so described propaganda in his influential book of that title. I hope more use the book as a guide to resist it than as a how-to manual when it joins the public domain in 52 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown
“The most interesting man in the world.” “Reach out and touch someone.” “Finger-lickin’ good.” Such advertising slogans have become fixtures of American culture, and each year millions now tune into the…
Generations of readers have enjoyed Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats, and kept it in print ever since its 1928 publication. The book is memorable both for its text (with the repeated cadence “Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, Millions and billions and trillions of cats”) and for its book design, pioneering the use of illustrated two-page spreads. You can see samples in Emily Temple’s Literary Hub review. Millions of Cats will enter the public domain in 46 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown
https://everybodyslibraries.com/2023/11/16/cats-here-cats-there-public-domain-cats-everywhere/
The Moon, cosplaying as Saturn for #halloween
Source: #NASA #Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2020 March 16.
shaman reconstruction, bad durrenburg
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/09/15/9000-year-old-shaman-burial-bad-durrenberg/
About 9,000 years ago, an influential and respected woman was put to rest in a burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany. She was buried in a sitting position with a child of about six months in her arms. Her spectacular clothes and lavish burial offer evidence she was a woman of high social status. We do not know her name, but we know she was 30-40 when she died.
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