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Parables of the polygons: This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world.

Storied Colors: One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison.

Jstor Daily: an interesting free academic article a day. Currently it's celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month by posting stories that highlight the history of the LGBTQIA+ community

The Matriarchy: As the World Cup arrives in the United States, much of the conversation has focused on what it could do for the men's game. Yet the blueprint for soccer's cultural relevance in America was arguably written nearly three decades ago... by the women.

The Neglected Books Page: articles and lists with thousands of books that have been neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste.

House of Horrors: "You've gotten evicted from your home. Luckily, a friend of yours offers her home for you to stay in, but there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. Creatures of all types are lurking just behind the corner, and you need to figure out who you can trust before it's too late. Good luck". A Video Game Where You Need To Follow Rules to Survive (text based)

Fitness Youtube channels I watched this week:

Pilates

I like these because they have beginner friendly at home workout videos that can be done in 30 min or less. The intruction is clear and to the point.

• Flow with Mira
  
• Move with Nicole
• Yoga with Kassandra
• Yoga With Adriene
• Jessica Valant

No equipment home workout

They provide a lot no equipment sitting/standing workouts good for home and office workout

• HASfit
  
• yes2next
• ElderfitTV Experts In Over 60s Health & Fitness
  
• Improved Health
  
• WEShape

I have just finished "Illicit", and want to make a list about fictional and real life imposters.

True Case:

The Case of Martin Guerre: In 1548, Martin Guerre left his wife and children abruptly. Several years later, a man claiming to be him appeared. He lived with Guerre's wife and son for three years. The false Martin Guerre was eventually suspected of the impersonation. He was tried, discovered to be a man named Arnaud du Tilh and executed. The real Martin Guerre had returned during the trial. How much Guerre's wife Bertrande de Rols is duped or complicit remains a matter of controversy.

Sarah Wilson (1745? – 1780) was an English impostor who traveled to America as a convict servant and pretended to be British royalty. As a teenager, she began her career of "wandering around England “imposing on the compassion and credulity of different persons in town and country". In 1768, She was sentenced to penal transportation to the American colonies then and sold as a convict maid. She escaped and started to travel through Virginia and the Carolina as Queen Charlotte’s sister, and successfully maintained her royal pretension to her death. Interestingly, there was wide spread legend of her as a former maid of the Queen's maid after her death. Perhaps it was more scandalous to imagine a mere working class girl successfully fooling the powerful and high class.

Review of Books about Sarah Wilson:
The Impostress: The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson

J. Frank Dalton (1848-1951): an American impostor who claims to be two long-dead famous Western historical figures, lawman Frank Dalton and outlaw Jesse James. First he claimed to be  Frank Dalton from 1930s. Confronted with compelling evidence that he wasn't, he switched the gear and claimed to be Jesse James instead

Fiction

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey: "In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerism's, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the imposter's plan and his life."

It's a classic. I love finding out the mystery along with Brat Farrar buried in his lie and pretense. One reasons I'm really into identity issues and pretense in fiction.

Illicit (The Wrong Alpha #3) by Alessandra Hazard: "The last time Liam Blake saw his eldest brother, Anthony was sixteen and Liam was five. Liam barely remembers him. He remembers adoring his big brother and remembers missing him, but his childhood memories faded as he grew up.

Fifteen years later, a man who calls himself Anthony Blake finally comes home after the war ends. He has documents that prove his identity, and he has Liam’s brother’s dark hair, blue eyes, and broad shoulders. There’s no reason to think he isn’t who he says he is—except for Liam’s strange, inexplicable attraction to the man who claims to be Anthony. " (M/M omegaverse)

I really like how realistic the characters feeling are. Lian's full of guilt and shame. When Lian's brother find out their relationship, he's very WTF about it. This detail make it real to me.

Almonds

How Almonds Went From Deadly To Delicious: Over time, farmers have bred domesticated almond trees to produce mostly sweet seeds. But wild almonds helped us out — and now we know just how they went from deadly to delicious.

Almond Joy, Stone Age Style: Our ancestors had a bash eating wild nuts: Around 780,000 years ago, human ancestors living along a lakeshore in what is now northern Israel ate a varied diet. It included fat- and protein-rich almonds, pistachios, and other hard-shelled nuts, according to a new report.

Walnuts

Walnuts and the First Forest Farms: Scientists mapping both walnut forests and languages have discovered close relationships between the two along the major Silk Road routes, evidence that the spread of walnut trees was due at least as much—or more—to humans as to nature.

Walnuts Through Time: Brain Food, Poison, Money, Muse Walnuts are different things to different people and cultures.

Cashew

Monkeys in Brazil have used stone tools for hundreds of years at least

Where Does Cashew Chicken Come From?: Think less Sichuan Province and more…Springfield, Missouri?

Pistachio

Background

Plagiarism and You(Tube) by hbomberguy: a call out of several big Youtubers for plagiarism including: AVGN and his company Cinemassacre, Iilluminaughtii, Internet Historian & James Somerton (~4 hours)

I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube by Todd in the Shadows An expose of James Somerton for rampant lies to talk down marginalized community (eg "AIDS crisis survivors are boring gay. They fight for marriage equality only because they want big weddings"), misogyny, racism, and Nazis kink (eg: Americans enlisted in WWII because they were jealous of Nazi's bodies) . (~2h)

Creators that deserve credits and recognitions

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get) : a post that tracks down books/magazines/articles/videos/etc Somerton plagiarized.

Your New Favorite YouTubers: Queer YouTubers you should check out, meticulously compiled by Kat.

It's great to recognize queer creators' effort. I have discovered many good YouTube creators because of this, like MattBaume , hhhazel ,KatBlaque , etc.

Book rec:

In this age of misinformation, it's important to develop skills to discern facts from various claims.

Book rec: Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the 'Fake News' Era

The Evidence Locker: a companion resource site to  Developing Digital Detective

I am still learning how to build a website, as my knowledge of html from the past was outdated. Some resources I found useful:

Navigation bar

Creating multiple pages with navigation menus

Single navigation bar across website

Footer

How to create a fixed footer

Colour scheme

Contrast Checker: check if there is enough contrast of colour in foreground and background for accessibility

Scroll to Top Button

I want to make it easier for visitors to navigate the site when reading long pages. The following methods are simpler.

How to make scroll to top button

How to Make an Unobtrusive Scroll-to-Top Button

How to Make an Animated Back to Top Button Using Only CSS

Scroll-to-Top Button with Progress Indicator Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Scroll to Top Button (HTML and CSS Only)

Pagination

can be useful for chapters

CSS Pagination Examples:

Images from the Collective Unconscious Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive: In the 1930s, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, mystic and founder of the multidisciplinary Eranos forum, began compiling a diverse visual archive that would allow dreamers to cross-reference their visions with the entirety of cultural history. Frederika Tevebring explores this grandiose undertaking and its effect on the archivist, as images from the collection began to blur with her psyche.

When a UFO Came to Japan in 1803: Discover the Legend of Utsuro-bune: "In 1803, a round vessel drifted ashore on the Japanese coast and a beautiful woman emerged, wearing strange clothing and carrying a box. She was unable to communicate with the locals, and her craft was marked with mysterious writing."

The Little Known History of World War II’s All-Black, All-Female Battalion: The 6888th Battalion was led by 26-year-old Major Charity Adams Earley, the first Black woman to become an officer in the Women’s Army Corps.

That Time Eleanor Roosevelt Disappeared for 10 Days: She reappeared in World War II’s Pacific theater where, for five weeks in 1943, she inspired troops and faced down air raids.

Investigating the strange disappearance of Mrs Agatha Christie: Records held at The National Archives give us a unique insight into the strange events of December 1926.

In your own space, tell us about 3 creative/fannish resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy. (One or two is fine, especially if you're in a smaller fandom or like many people at the moment, fannishly adrift right now) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so

Writing Resources for writing non-human characters

Creating Character: The Inhuman: https://authorreneemiller.com/2013/01/15/creating-character-the-inhuman/

Are You Writing Believable Non-Human Characters?: https://www.standoutbooks.com/writing-believable-non-human-characters/

How to Create Gods Characters for Your Fantasy World: https://prowritingaid.com/art/896/world-building%3a-how-to-create-gods.aspx#head0

Space

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars
Magma on Mars likely: Until now, Mars has been generally considered a geologically dead planet. An international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich now reports that seismic signals indicate vulcanism still plays an active role in shaping the Martian surface.
Ancient microbes may have survived below Mars' surface

Medicine

New Combination Pancreatic Cancer Therapy Shows Promise in Mouse Models
Gut bacteria alleviate smoking-related NASH by degrading gut nicotine
Long and irregular menstruation cycles linked to higher heart disease risk

Victorian Childhood

The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England
The Victorian Child, c.1837-1901
Victorian Child Criminals

Victorian Domestic Servants

The Life of Domestic Servants in Victorian England
Domestic Servants
Women and domestic service in Victorian society
What were Georgian and Victorian servants’ rooms like?

Folklorists in the 19th century

The ‘Invention’ of Folklore in the Nineteenth Century
‘Imagine I am the Creatura’: Biography of Rachel Busk, a British Folklorist in Europe
The Science of Folklore at the End of the 19th Century (doc)
Folklore Tracks: Historical GIS and Folklore Collection in 19th Century Denmark (pdf)

University Life in the past

The history of student life: 7 things you didn’t know
The history of the University of Oxford vol VII, 'Nineteenth Century Oxford
Studying Natural Science at the University Museum in the 1880s: Insight from Walter Baldwin Spencer as an Oxford University student at the time
PRM Teaching Introduction: Formal Teaching (archaeology and anthropology) provided by The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University from 1893-2006
Universities in The 19th Century & Surprising Facts You Haven’t Heard About? US history

Victorian England

An Introduction to Victorian England (1837–1901)
How Victorian newspapers changed the look of British towns and cities
History of C19th British Newspapers
British Newspapers, 1800-1860
Antique Victorian Air Cane Gun Restored and Tested
Love and Hate in the 19th Century: Say It With Flowers

Historical Costuming

Accessories Make The (Victorian) Man
Sheer Delight: Sheer Dresses Of The Crinoline Era
Pleasure And Beauty In La Belle Epoque
Dressing For The 1940s USO Tea
Regency Capsule Wardrobe Tips
Paraphernalia For The Regency Man