Vintage academia

People often believe that to dress well, they must keep up with current fashion trends, copy the latest runway looks, and always shop in the "new in" section. Not only does it foster consumerist culture, but it's also super expensive. Although the global fashion industry, valued at $1.7 trillion (as of 2022), is a huge money-maker, dressing stylishly shouldn't put a dent in your wallet. For ordinary folk whose life revolves around something other than catching and demonstrating the latest…

Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; Your eyes scanned the pages of the John Keats poetry book and you put it back in it's place with a dreamy sigh. Fall was your favorite season to visit the library and just sit there and soak up in the ambience. You mo...

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Drawings of the Moon, November-December 1609. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms. Gal. 48, f. 28r. Galileo produced this extremely famous set of six watercolours of the Moon in its various phases "from life", as he observed the Earth's satellite through a telescope in the autumn of 1609. They represent the first realistic depiction of the Moon in history.