The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
The burning of a day steamer in 1904 wiped out an entire New York City neighborhood at one blow. Why did it happen?
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Interiors: Argentine National Library (Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This room has may layers of connections, including to my favorite author, Jorge Luis Borges.
Why it’s been quiet in the Garden lately.
A brief update on where this blog is going and what's happening in my life.
Historic Photo: Neuhauser Strasse in Munich, Bavaria, 1839.
This amazing picture is one of the earliest photographs ever taken in Germany.