Curious George

Margret and H. A. Rey's Life in Paris and Narrow Escape.

Safari Extensions

Safari Extensions: "A handy list of available Safari extensions."

Popular amusements

An appeal to Methodists, in regard to the evils of card-playing, billiards, dancing, theatre-going, etc. — Hiram Mattison (1811-1868)

EVILS OF DANCING
I. Like playing cards and billiards it is A USELESS WASTE OF TIME.
For children to learn to dance requires a great deal of time, which they need for other and better purposes.

II. It is a USELESS WASTE OF MONEY.
To learn to dance requires a dancing-master or school and no little outlay of money for tuition, extra dresses, slippers, etc.

III. Dancing often brings the otherwise virtuous and pure-minded into association with the low and vile.
Public balls are not apt to be very select in this respect. In fact, there are all grades of "hops," from the private parlor to the dance-house and the brothel.

IV. Public dancing and moral impurity are almost inseparably associated.
Among the Greeks the public dancers were almost invariably wretched females, who made merchandise of their own persons.

V. Dancing is usually associated with tippling, and often leads leads to intemperance, and consequent ruin.
The fact is, both ladies and gentlemen drink at balls, and both get heated with wine and inflamed by passion.

VI. Dancing is usually as injurious to the HEALTH of its votaries as it is to their purity of mind and morals and their habits of temperance and sobriety.
Every dancer knows that after a night spent in the ballroom it takes two or three days for the system to recover its wonted elasticity and spirits.

VII. The habit of dancing is necessarily opposed to all true piety and spirituality.
No Christian can go to a ball and dance without having a sense of demoralization, a feeling of condemnation and personal unworthiness and shame.

The complete text and other fabulous books can be read at Making of America (MoA).

Caning

Bastoni: "Pictures with canes or walking sticks."

Anatomy Murders

Burke and Hare: "On Monday, November 3, 1828, Edinburgh awoke to the horrifying news that the most atrocious murders of the decade — of the century — had been committed in the West Port district of the Old Town. William Burke and William Hare, together with Helen M'Dougal and Margaret Hare, were accused of killing 16 people over the course of 12 months, in order to sell their cadavers as 'subjects' for dissection."

Hotel room keycards collection

Key Card Collect: "Welcome to the Hotel Keycards Collecting area."

Stein in Central Asia

Fascinated by the Orient: Aurel Stein (1862-1943).

Cypriot Religious Buildings

Greek Cypriot & Turkish Cypriot: "religious buildings of Cyprus built before 1974."

Retrodigitized Journals

Seals - Swiss Electronic library: I'll draw your attention in particular to the architectural publication - Werk.

Memoro International

MEMORO: "The Memoro Project is a non profit online initiative dedicated to collecting and divulgating short video recordings of spontaneous interviews with people born before 1940."

Wax Maps

JAIC 2003, Volume 42, Number 3, Article 4 (pp. 419 to 424): "A Historical map-printing technique: Wax Engraving."

Magazines

Magazines: "a vast number of magazines covers."

Internal Sounds of Bugs

Listen to the Haunting Internal Sounds of Bugs: Discovery News - For the first time, scientists have just recorded sounds emanating from inside living insects, such as flies, mosquitoes and ladybugs. [via]

Mr Yoshi

Plastic Spoon is an ongoing documentation of Muirhouse, a council scheme in Edinburgh U.K.

Apple 1

Apple 1 For Sale | Applefritter
Joe on August 14, 2004: "The cost of the Apple 1 system is Thirty thousand ($30,000) US dollars."
Lorne000 on April 18, 2010: "I am interested in buying it and will pay as much as you want, since I'm more concerned if it's still available to purchase."

Igor Sergeev

The Biggest in the World: Collection of Full Cigarette Packs. "I collect full unopened cigarette packs since 1976. There are 36546 packs in my collection now (4 of May 2010)."

Kentuckiana

Kentuckiana Digital Library: "is your gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives."
In this scene, children make a citizen's arrest on corpulent, red suited intruder.

A way to get around

Alternate Modes of Transportation: 35 bicycles.

Olm

ARKive: a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species… gathering together the very best films and photographs of the world's species into one centralised digital library.

Disasters

10 World's Weirdest Disaster - garbled text but here they are:
10. Elephant rampage Forest Chandka
9. Mass poisoning in Basra
8. Chains reaction explosion in Texas City
7. Tunguska event
6. Fall of the Empire State Building
5. The Gillingham fire demonstration
4. Pittsburg gas cylinder explosion
3. Cane sugar flood on The Great Boston
2. Panic in the Shiloh Baptist church
1. Invasion of snakes in St. Pierre