@edithmayhallさんのイラストまとめ

After terrible Indonesian tsunami, & UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's warning of only 12 years before damage is irreversible, for #InternationalDayForDisasterReduction here are Deucalion & Pyrrha, by Giulio Carpioni (1655), in the deluge caused by human wrongdoing

Twitter hive, please help on meaning/purpose/provenance of allegorical drawing by William Henry Brooke (1772-1860)? Atlas kneels, Justice holds scales, Time with shield, hour-glass, bee hive, agricultural & mathematical implements at front. BM no. 1957,0221.2 @classicsandclas

In 1912 London tube management deliberately pumped ozone throughout thr system to make it smell fresh like a beach. Passengers got nauseous. Policy abandoned. Bizarre uses of antiquity in adverts no. 14

May 15th is Mercury's Ides when merchants celebrate the MERCURALIA by sprinkling water on their heads & ships from the spring at Porta Capena. Its nymph Egeria had once given King Numa Pompilius the laws of Roman religion before melting into springwater in grief when he died