Rather a bumper list this time…
Sacred Treasure
- A truly remarkable essay by former hostage Brian Keenan about the importance of hope for those 33 trapped miners in Chile. (HT Nancy H)
- HowardJacobson reflects on the horror of 9/11 and the sense of feeling left behind and lost. (HT Nancy H)
- Barry Cooper writes warmly about a mutual friend of ours, Tony Jones – I took over the same job from Tony at St Ebbe’s the following year, and am in awe of his capacity for work (I managed only half of what he did!).
- Computer models show how wind could have caused the parting of the Red Sea for Moses! (HT Charles Sperling)
- ‘Cranmer’ detects a great ecclesiastical gag played by the pope at Westminster Abbey.
- There seem to have been a number of events and publications remembering the London Blitz of 1940. This is rather a good website about London’s West End at war, including a page about the night All Souls was bombed. Some of this was drawn from the little history I wrote last year.
Sacred/Secular (?) Treasure
Meanwhile there’s been a lot of comings and goings on the Sacred/Secular divide in the western world – so here’s a new little sub theme with are one or two extra related links on that front:
- Alistair ‘We don’t do God’ Campbell gives an interesting (albeit party-political) take on what he meant by it.
- A fascinating article and graphic comparing national prosperity and levels of religious faith (from NY Times – HT Drew Woolf)
- And while we’re on the subject, Time magazine asks if France has taken secularism too far…
- But interestingly, recent surveys suggest that church attendance in the UK is stabilising or increasing.
Topical Treasure
- If this doesn’t put you off going to sea, I don’t know what will.
- A whole new way to check on flight arrival times…
- Truly inspiring images from The Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photography Competition
- Amazing Robert Capa photos discovered from the Spanish Civil War.
Quirky Treasure
- Astonishingly good quality colour photos from Imperial Russia in 1910 (HT John Goering)
- Lovely flowing redesign suggestion for the London Underground map (HT Information is Beautiful)
- I love these – I wish they were distributed daily in newsagents…
- This is an extraordinary journalistic sight – the mind boggles about seeing the banners of the Telegraph, Times, Grauniad, Mail, Sun, Mirror, Exchange and Mart, and the Racing Post all on one front page.
- Amazing coincidence that helped with the translation of the Rosetta Stone.
- Swish politician catches the giggles because of bureaucratic legalese.
- You have never seen time-lapse photography like this from Dan Eckert – the camera moves as well… (HT Kuriositas)
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- 100 years ago, the only alternative to Google was this (HT 22 Words) – A cross-section of New York Public Library in 1911
