[Public Domain Review] The Krakatoa Sunsets

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THE KRAKATOA SUNSETS

*When a volcano erupted on a small island in Indonesia in 1883, the 
evening skies of the world glowed for months with strange colours. 
Richard Hamblyn explores a little-known series of letters that the poet 
Gerard Manley Hopkins sent in to the journal /Nature/ describing the 
phenomenon -- letters that would constitute the majority of the small 
handful of writings published while he was alive. *
Read More » <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/28/the-krakatoa-sunsets/>

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    TURTLE ANATOMY (1821)

<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/23/turtle-anatomy-1821/>

Images from Anatome Testudinis Europaeae (1819-21) by the German 
physician and naturalist Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus (1776--1827).

Read More » <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/23/turtle-anatomy-1821/>

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        THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES COLLECTED INTO ENGLISHE METRE (1584)

16th century psalm book compiled in 1562 when the publisher John Day 
brought together most of the psalm versions from the Genevan editions 
and many new psalms by John Hopkins, Thomas Norton, and John Markant.

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/27/the-whole-booke-of-psalmes-collected-into-englishe-metre-1584/>

    THE FAERIE QUEENE (1596)

Original 1596 first edition of the second part to Edmund Spenser's epic 
poem The Faerie Queene -- disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII. 
morall vertues.

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/27/the-faerie-queene-1596/>

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In this film from the Prelinger Archives a Greyhound bus rides from San 
Fransisco to Washington D.C, transporting us at the same time through 
the landscape of American mythology (and unwavering patriotism). The 
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playing himself. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/22/freedom-highway-1956/>

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(Paris, 1600), a seminal work in fortification theory. Errard 
(1554-1610) was a mathematician by training, and used his love of 
geometry (he made several translation of Euclid's Elements) to develop a 
comprehensive theory of military fortifications. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/17/fortification-theory-1600/>

    HOW TO BECOME A MAGICIAN (1882)

A grand assortment of various tricks, illusions, conjurings, deceptions 
and slights of hand, all of which are "not intended to make the young 
reader either a cheat or a trickster".

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/16/how-to-become-a-magician-1882/>

CODEX MENDOZA (1542)

An Aztec codex created about twenty years after the Spanish conquest of 
Mexico with the intent that it be seen by Charles V, the Holy Roman 
Emperor and King of Spain. It contains ahistory of the Aztec rulers and 
their conquests, a list of the tribute paid by the conquered, and a 
description of daily Aztec life, in traditional Aztec pictograms with 
Spanish explanations and commentary. 
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    SCOTT JOPLIN

Scott Joplin (1867? -- 1917), "The King of Ragtime", wrote 44 original 
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