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  • New York City Municipal Archives

    The city of New York photographed every building in the five boroughs for property tax assessment purposes. The city’s photographers took more than 700,000 pics as a result. Continue reading →

  • Finally Entering the Public Domain

    We’re finally getting some « spectacular stuff » released into the public domain on New Year’s Day (screw you Disney!). Continue reading →

  • WWI Collides with D&D and Memes

    It’s two years old, but I’m just seeing it for the first time. It’s « one of the best visual “explainers” » I’ve seen that describes the spark which ignited World War I. It tells the story of that horrible … Continue reading →