Andrew Mayersohn

My occupational therapist told me to specialize in lost causes. Researcher with @OpenSecretsDC

[Andrew Mayersohn @andymayers]

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[Andrew Mayersohn @andymayers]

Ormer Locklear was a daredevil stunt pilot who crashed and died while filming a night scene for The Skywayman (1920). Fox capitalized on the crash by rushing the film into theaters and very graciously gave a whole 10% of the profits to Locklear's family

https://t.co/OniIkUkSBx

[Andrew Mayersohn @andymayers]

I've done too many angry tweets lately, to compensate I'm going to post the most interesting thing I learn by hitting the Random button on Wikipedia each day

[Andrew Mayersohn @andymayers]

Montreal has its own version of DC's urban legend that buildings can't be taller than the Washington Monument: "It is a common misconception that by law, no buildings in Montreal are to be higher than the Mount Royal Cross" but the actual limit is the height of Mount Royal itself

[ShenGongFuti (OLD ACCOUNT HACKED!!!) @shengongfuti3]

The Battle of Weihaiwei by the war journalist Kubota Beisen, sketched on the spot, versus two dudes who were sitting home in Japan

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

The exactness of reflection depicted in the artworks of Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow (1847–1906)

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"They Danced by the Light of the Moon" by artist Victoria Keeble.

[Andrew Mayersohn @andymayers]

Tangentially related, I’m reading a biography of Tagore that mentions that his admirer (and Nobel laureate) Romain Rolland wrote four books on India “without visiting India, without knowing its history, and without knowing any of its languages, including English!”

[Eggroll🏯🇬🇧 @EggrollShogun]

Without knowing any foreign language, Chinese literati Lin Shu translated nearly 200 European novels into classical Chinese. An interlocutor would recount the plot, and he would follow line by line.

"It needs to be said the Chinese Dame aux Camélias is superior to the original."

[Andrew Mayersohn @andymayers]

The personalized trending topics thing is finally honing in on my interests

[ؘ @swancain]

concept art by eyvind earle for sleeping beauty (1959)

[Tatiana Fajardo @Tatiana19796]

'Warm Gaze,' by C.M.Duffy

[PJ @PJ11819211]

Stylized depictions of Chinese Industrialization by Song Wenzhi

[Héraklès Citharède @HeraklesCithare]

C’est le plus ancien règlement de bibliothèque retrouvé à ce jour. Découvert sur l’agora d’Athènes, il stipule, ciselé dans le marbre :

« Aucun livre ne sera emporté au-dehors, car nous en avons prêté le serment. La bibliothèque sera ouverte de la première heure jusqu'à la sixième. »

BYBΛION OYK EΞENEXΘHΣETAI EΠEI ΩMOΣAMEN: ANYΓHΣETAI AΠO ΩPAΣ ΠPΩTHΣ MEXPI EKTHΣ

Bibliothèque de Pantainos, musée de l’Agora, Athènes, Ier siècle.

[Pieter Garicano @pietergaricano]

Everyone's seen the old Harvard entrance exam, but how would you do at the 1878 exam to join the British Indian Civil Service?

[Daniel Tabin @DanTabin]

Pretty amazing to have the name of a Maya mathematician/astronomer who lived at least 1200 years ago. Sak Tahn Waax or “White-chested Fox”
To read more about this finding (both Sak Tahn Waax's formula and new archeology), read the paper, found here:
https://t.co/HvsO8FAxMs

[Andrew Mayersohn @andymayers]

I had something similar but in my case it was specifically about safeguarding my brain against the Yeerks from the Animorphs series

https://t.co/wAA7Y2dC6q

[𓅞 @br0tos]

When I was 12 I was paranoid about mind readers so I would practice constructing mental fortifications around my mind to make it impenetrable, and making my mind blank on command. I would also attempt penetrative assaults on other people's minds with directed mental energy

[oliver @Mr_Sunflower_]

bunnies yay