From the Library of Congress.
Food – Don’t Waste It
Category: History
Isabella d’Este
Isabella d’Este was born in 1474 in the city of Ferrara, the first child of Duke Ercole d’Este and his wife, Eleonora d’Aragona. She grew up in the sophisticated and opulent world of Italy’s elite, studying with top-notch humanist teachers and rubbing elbows with figures of renown: painters, poets, and princes who were making the history of what would later be called the Italian Renaissance.
The Great Wave
Evolution of New York City
Book of Plants
Online plates from a historic and beautifully illustrated book of plants.
Hummingbirds
An lone restoration of a vintage catalog of hummingbirds from Open Culture.
The Last Whole Earth Catalog
I still have a copy of this gathering dust on my bookshelf. The website has high resolution photographs of the pages.
Laura Bassi
I loved reading about Laura Bassi, the Italian physicist and academic featured in today’s Google Doodle.
Titanic at 100 years – The Big Picture – Boston.com
The Big Picture commemorates the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 2015.
69 Years Ago Today
Wikipedia has an article on the Attack on Pearl Harbor.