Blue Pages from the Steppe A forgotten 1721 report recounts the discovery of a mysterious archive—half-buried, half-remembered. Long before archaeology became a formal discipline, and centuries before intelligence services obsessed over metadata, the age of Enlightenment already held space for mystery. Take, for example, a single-column item tucked into The…
Princess to Paint Taft: Vilma Parlaghy Has Arrived in New York in State.
New York, March 18, 1909 — Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, better known in the world of art as Vilma Parlaghy, minus her menagerie, but with all the other spectacular features which characterized her method of travel on a former visit last year, arrived Monday on the Hamburg-American line steamship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria…
Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy: The Portrait Painter of Royalty and Patriots
https://img.pingcognito.com/post/34745/34745.mp3 Listen to NotebookLM opine about this article Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy, the wife of and a native of Hungary, is currently in Baltimore and will soon travel to Philadelphia on July 4. In Philadelphia, she will be honored with a reception by the Hungarian community, with singing societies organizing an…
Isaac Asimov’s Veiled Message About Ascension Island
In this 1989 column, Isaac Asimov explores the mysterious migratory behavior of green sea turtles, who routinely travel 1,200 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to Ascension Island to nest. Despite the distance, danger, and time, the turtles return—generation after generation. Asimov’s focus is ostensibly scientific: how do animals…
PLVS VLTRA & The Otherworld
The Frog and the Crown: How the Merovingians Became the Fleur-de-Lys
From Richard Glenn to the Kings of Plus Ultra, the true memory of the Intra-Terrestrials lives on. https://img.pingcognito.com/post/62206/62206.mp3 Listen to the NotebookLM podcast discussing this article I grew up watching . Not the second version — the first one. The one who spoke without a filter, on late-night Quebec television,…