Wrath Of Gnonさんのイラストまとめ

It was used on cloth in Tibet (here ca. 1200-1250 A.D.) and on linen canvas in Europe (here The Annunciation by Dieric Bouts, Louvain, Belgium, ca. 1450-1455).

Wildlife played a large part in recycling phosphor from ocean to land. It is obviously impossible to restore even a fraction of this system if we are to keep our modern lifestyles, but the principle of bears and whales recycling phosphorus is fascinating.
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@maolchallann @MythicalIberia Straw is a wonder material.

...natto (fermented soybean), Edo style sweets (rice dumplings, red bean paste, etc.), seasoned food (soy sauce, salt, miso, etc.). Some of these stalls were literally carried around and would stop to serve any customer who fancied a bite. Others served in semipermanent stalls.

...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?

Andy Gammon's view of Lewe's Priory in 1520. Even if you don't build the priory itself it would make a beautiful starting point for a human scaled no-car settlement for a hundred families of craftsmen, food producers and teleworkers. With ample wifi.

In 1980, the wood engraver Philip Hagreen (1890-1988) offering us some anecdotes about life in 1921, on manners, Dorset, cheese, and on Noblesse oblige.

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.