“Zum Tanz” - “The Dance”

Painting created for the facade decoration of the “Dance House,” in Basel, Germany. Painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, in 1520.

Note the musicians to the left of the dancers - the leftmost character is playing a dudelsack, which is a traditional German bagpipe. The second-left character appears to be playing a cross between a crumhorn and a bladder pipe, which is the instrument that the crumhorn developed from.

Der Tanz. Dr. Karl Storck, 1902.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II strikes a pose. (ca. 1914-1916) 

Boy let’s make like pre-1871 German states and unify.

Okay I’ll stop.

DAMN UR SEXY KAISER

I’m too sexy for Berlin, too sexy for Berlin, Leipzig und Frankfurt.

I’m the Kaiser, you know what I mean

and I do my little turn on the battlefield
yeah on the battlefield, on the battlefield yeah
I do my little turn on the battlefield

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Austria, Pinzgau (Zell am See District)

From Deutsche Volkstrachten (German folk costumes), written and illustrated by Albert Kretschmer, Leipzig, 1887.

(Source: archive.org)

The “Draisine”

An 1817 invention by Baron Karl von Drais, named by him the “Laufmaschine” (running machine), but called the “Draisine” elsewhere. This was the inspiration for Johnson’s velocipede in England. Unlike Johnson’s velocipede, the frame is straight and low, and limited the size of the wheels with the size of the person. Johnson’s serpentine frame allowed for higher wheels without actually raising the height of the seat.

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Fantastic Adventures, April, 1945

“Vignettes of Famous Scientists: Bernoulli”

And we can’t even get a science section in most newspapers today!

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mnemotherapy:

Germany, 1870s.

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Young Soldier’s Portrait, Westerwald, 1945.

This portrait looks almost like a video game graphic. Fascinating.