Wrath Of Gnonさんのイラストまとめ

...meat pot (meat and vegetable boiled in broth), tempura (deep fried anything), tofu (soybean curd), hatsugatsuo (raw fish or sashimi that is in season, in this case katsuo or bonito)...

From the pen of @kirimaru_y, a set of cute illustrations of Edo period (roughly early 17th to late 19th c.) Japanese traditional street food or fast food. From left to right: eel, soba (buckwheat noodles), sushi (vinegared rice with topping usually raw seafood)...

There are about 19,500 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. It would be interesting if at least one of them, as an experiment in urban revival, built a neighborhood with town houses like this. Just one, see how it works out. Or somewhere in Europe?

His house and clinic has been preserved. Records of 143 breast cancer operations survive. Considering that all these were performed only in near terminal cases (at a stage when they could be detected) the survival rate was high. His direct descendant is today a Tokyo dentist.

@SCP_Hughes These two were better but there is still the problem of the cars. The one on the right is the best but even that has too much parking and traffic. Adding a tram stop would work.

Cheaper than roads and more efficient than carts, before engines were common enough to be everyday items Japan had hundreds of hand pushed railways. The last one in regular use (it carried logs from river to mill and factory) closed in 1959. Minimal start up costs. Easy to build.

@CountMarylcian @StMarthaCath Sure, ancient Roman, Greek, Minoan.

On the history and use of the humble hot water bottle, the low tech option for thermal delight, from my favorite website, @lowtechmagazine https://t.co/Jfsd7yl4qq

Some images of present day Kofun and a reconstruction of how they would have looked when new.

Reconstructions of a typical Babylonian private residences in the 18th century B.C., in the city of Ur during the reign of Hammurabi (1810-1750 B.C.). At this point the city was already 1,700 years old. Built around central courtyard and an impluvium, walls of adobe bricks, 2fl.