For about a hundred years, from the late 15th to the late 16th century, codpieces were high fashion. The original codpiece was a part of a suit of armor, and it was seriously for protection. But off the battlefield, this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Codpiece/The custom of writing love letters has fallen from an art form to a few scribbled words inside a Valentine's Day card, thanks to instant communication. Once upon a time, a well-written letter could make someone fall in l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/Presidents-and-Their-Love-Letters/Four Italian guitar players, Matteo Brenci, Emanuele Grafitti, Enrico Maria Milanesi, and Andrea Vittori, all from different musical backgrounds, got together and formed a band called 40 Fingers. They don't need any othe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/Michael-Jackson-Tunes-on-Nothing-But-Guitars/Appropriate for Valentine's Day, the New York Times (paywalled) tells the love story of Sophie Lund Rasmussen and Troels Pank Arboll, two Danish academics who share an interest in the history of the ancient Near...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/Single-Male-Assyriologist-Seeks-Single-Female-Assyriologist/Traveling around the world these days is fast and convenient due to modern transportation. But before planes and bullet trains were invented, people had to travel the old-fashioned way, on ships or sometimes on foot. And...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/Meet-James-Holman-the-Forgotten-Blind-Traveler/<p>New research on the rongorongo script suggests that <a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/undeciphered-script-from-easter-island-may-predate-european-colonization" target="_b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/Easter-Island-s-Rongorongo-Script-May-Have-Been-an-Original-Invention/
