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Monsieur Boileau at the cafe - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1893) Oil and tempera with charcoal on millboard ( archive.org )

Cleveland’s 1925 purchase of this work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec marked the first acquisition of one of the artist’s drawings by a museum in the United States. Its subject, Monsieur Boileau, was a gossip columnist known to drink heavily at Le Mirliton, a nightclub. Here, saturated, acidic tones evoke the room’s gas...

[PDF] A compendium of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin languages (August Schleicher) ( archive.org )

I'm sharing this mostly as a historical curiosity; Schleicher was genial, but the book is a century and half old, science marches on, so it isn't exactly good source material. Still an enjoyable read if you like Historical Linguistics, as it was one of the first successful attempts to reconstruct a language based on indirect...

Tantura (2022) 1080p HD ( archive.org )

Description: When Israeli graduate student Teddy Katz meticulously documented a massacre of Palestinian civilians surrounding Israel's independence, he was initially celebrated for his groundbreaking work. But soon, he was stripped of his degrees and was publicly shamed as a fraudulent traitor. Decades later, incendiary new...

Fans of the dead radioarchive.cc - The Internet Archive has a vast number of BBC radio dramas and panel shows! ( archive.org )

Radioarchive.cc was a huge loss. It was a torrent archive of BBC radio programs, mostly dramas and panel shows. Since it died, there have been few places to get BBC radio dramas, many of which are broadcast once, are available for listening on streaming free for a month (worldwide), then are unavailable in perpetuity. Many of...

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