06 januari 2014

积极防治疟疾

积极防治疟疾
Title: Actively Prevent and Treat Malaria
积极防治疟疾
[Ji ji fang zhi nue ji]

Produced by the Health and Epidemic Prevention Station of Changzhou Prefecture, Hebei Province, n.d., ca. 1972.

Mosquitoes spread malaria and we can prevent it. Images of prevention present different treatments with instruction on taking specific doses of medicine. Improvement of people's health is emphasized as part of the rural development.

Via: Chinese Anti-Malaria Posters



Euclidean space (1)


The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
- Euclid

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TOP SECRET
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 24, 1947

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Dear Secretary Forrestal:

As per our recent conversation on this matter,
you are hereby authorized to proceed with all due
speed and caution upon your undertaking. Hereafter
this matter shall be referred to only as Operation
Majestic Twelve.

It continues to be my feeling that any future
considerations relative to the ultimate disposition
of this matter should rest solely with the Office
of the President following appropriate discussions
with yourself, Dr. Bush and the Director of Central
Intelligence.

[signed] Harry Truman



18 december 2013

Sorcerers’ passport


A “sorcerers’ passport,” offering safe passage to vodou initiates, obtained by Albert Métraux during his anthropological field work in Haiti in the 1940s. Kate Ramsey notes that the Haitian secret societies that issue these passports are linked to vodou and still form an active alternative (“nighttime”) system for delivering law and justice to their adherents.

Read more: The Trial That Gave Vodou A Bad Name





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17 december 2013

Native dignity

Melbourne. Printed for the Proprietor by DeGruchy & Leigh, 43, Elizabeth St.

PRIMARY ARTIST: S.T. Gill (1818–1880)
TITLE: Native dignity.
DATE MADE: 1866
TECHNIQUE: lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone
Via: CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN ART