Happy Friday! Here’s a thread for my cabinet of curiosities, a roundup of five cool links I enjoyed this week 🧵
Today: love letters, board games, monsters and a touch of retro 💌👹💥
#FridayFive #CabinetOfCuriosities #CoolLinks #Roundup #Links
1) Unread love letters
"A forgotten bundle of love letters sent to French sailors more than 260 years ago – but never before opened or read – has been discovered among British naval archives, revealing intimate details of 18th-century marital and family life"
2) A striking photo by Herbert List of Mostro im Garten des Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, taken in 1952
#Photography #BlackAndWhite #HerbertList #MostroImGardenDesPalazzoOrsini
3) A supercut video of an explosion sprite that appeared in—apparently—every 90s video game
4) On the origins of some of our favorite board games during the medieval period
https://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/games-of-thrones-popular-medieval-board-games/
5) This photographer shared a lovely series of Eastern Bloc rotary phones on his page
https://www.instagram.com/troylitten (scroll down a bit to find them in the feed)
