Record of longings forgotten

Although the Iraqi Muslim scientist Ibn al-Haitham was the first to experiment with camera obscura, Shen Kuo was the first to apply geometrical and quantitative attributes to the camera obscura, just several decades after Ibn al-Haitham's death. Using a fitting metaphor, Shen compared optical image inversion to an oarlock and waisted drum.

The winter is not too sad, say it

The future for Apophis on Friday, April 13 of 2029

I first saw Kitaj's "Where The Railroad Leaves The Sea" in 1976 and it knocked my socks off.
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via wood s lot

red iron sun

Song:Misplaced

...of an ancient lordly time, deposited
under the bleachers like leftover lumber and puzzling
for all of these years at the alien rituals of crush and cheer
and of treasure beyond any hieroglyphic...

Albert Goldbarth at Poetry Daily

Five Typical Natives
Five men in three blanket boats
Five Filipino women, seated, wearing traditional costume
Five girls knitting, Albania
Jazz
For Boynton

Man cranking auto with five women,
in front of The Mt. Arlington hotel

Five peasant women standing outside of log house

Five men, in observation room of eye institute

[5] Apache Indians, Tucson, Arizona

Five football players

eternity, step by step:

not all quantum-mechanical operators have discrete spectra

26. untitled (igloo floorplans)

Shuvinai Ashoona: Drawings 1993-2007
Marion Scott Gallery

All that We Own

Kananginak Pootoogook
Cape Dorset ,1975
Prints of the Nanisiniq Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit
Houston North Gallery

3 Ajaw

Most Popular Baby Boy Name this century:

Jacob

This biblical boys name comes from Genesis 25. Abraham had a son Isaac. Isaac and his wife rebekah had twins. They named the first baby boy Esau and the second baby boy was named Jacob. He was to go on an become the father of the Jewish nation. Not unusual but still a good name!
[...]Names in religious thought
Judaism
Names are attributed added significance in traditional Jewish sources.

Biblical names
In the Old Testament, we find that names of individuals are meaningful. Adam is named after the "earth" (Adama) from which he was created. (Genesis 2)
A change of name indicates a change of status. For example, the patriarch "Abram" is renamed "Abraham" before he is blessed with children. His wife, "Sarai" is similarly renamed "Sarah." (Genesis 17)

Talmudic attitudes
The Babylonian Talmud maintains that names exert an influence over their bearers:
From where do we know that a name has a causal effect ("shama garim"). Says Rabbi Elazar: the verse says, (Psalms 46:9) "Go see the works of God, who puts desolation (shamot) in the earth." Read not "desolation" but "names" (shemot).

The Unusual Baby Boy Names Site
Unique, Unusual and Biblical Baby Names

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