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"Practical Typewriting: By the All-finger Method, which Leads to Operation by Touch"—Bates Torrey archive.org/details/prac...
"How to Become Expert in Typewriting: A Complete Instructor"—Lovisa Ellen Barnes archive.org/details/howt...

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On July 25, 1888, an American man, Frank Edward McGurrin, who was reportedly the only person using touch typing at the time, won a decisive victory over Louis Traub (operating Caligraph with eight-finger method) in a typing contest held in Cincinnati. The results were displayed on the front pages of many newspapers. [2] McGurrin won US$500 (equivalent to $13,304 in 2019 USD) and popularized the new typing method. Whether McGurrin was actually the first person to touch type or simply the first to be popularly noticed, is disputed. Speeds attained by other typists in other typing competitions at the time suggest that they must have been using similar systems. [3] In 1889, Bates Torrey coined the words "writing by touch" in his article. [4] In 1890, Lovisa Ellen Bullard Barnes defined the words "write by touch" in her book as follows:[5][6] To learn to write by touch, that is, with only an occasional glance at the key-board, sit directly in front of the machine. Keep the hands as nearly as possible in one position over the key-board. diagram from a 19th century touch typing manual, showing with hand should be used with each key. diagram from a 19th century touch typing manual, showing certain key combinations that require a lot of finger travel.
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
diazcarrete.bsky.social
Por fin vi "Los Domingos", la película española en boca de todos sobre una joven que decide—para consternación de su familia—dedicarse a la repostería.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"A Handbook for Travellers in France: Being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany, the Rivers Seine, Loire, Rhône, and Garonne, the French Alps, Dauphiné, the ... &c. &c. : The Railways and Principal Roads"—John Murray
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November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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destroying the present to reach for a valorized past
By the eighth century, the arena had been converted into a fortification, with four stone towers, three of which are still standing. Also in the Middle Ages, the outsides of the arches were filled in, and houses were built inside the arena and up against its outer walls, so that in time, over many years, a fortified village was created within the arena, complete with streets, a public square, and two chapels, one containing the remains of St. Genesius, patron saint of notaries. The village continued in existence until the 1800s, described in the Murray guidebook, in harsh terms, as being "filled within and choked up without by an accumulation of mean hovels, occupied by the poorest and worst part of the population of the town to the number of 2000." Then, in an upsurge of interest in the city's Roman heritage, the decision was made to raze the houses and clear out the village. This began in 1823 and was mostly accomplished by 1844; when Stendhal visited the city in 1837, there were still a few of what he calls "poor dwellings" inside the walls. Despite these remaining houses, the first event to take place in the arena after the clearing was a race of the bulls in 1830, held in celebration of the conquest of Algiers.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Frédéric Bazille, accomplished French Impressionist artist, part of a close circle of artists and writers including Renoir, Manet, Monet and Zola; painted La Robe Rose in 1864, and a portrait of his friend the writer, musician and collector Edmond Maître in 1869; died #OTD 1870.
Musée d’Orsay
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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‘Vallejo’s life has the brief, jagged outline of a broken mirror. He resembles a 19th-century poète maudit, a Beddoes, a Bécquer, a Baudelaire, a Rimbaud. He is a poetry touchstone, a poet-martyr.’

Michael Hofmann on the difficulty of translating César Vallejo's poems.
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Michael Hofmann · Only foam comes out: Vallejo in English
Cé​sar Vallejo’s life has the brief, jagged outline of a broken mirror. He resembles a 19th-century poète maudit,...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
diazcarrete.bsky.social
another entry in the "photos that oddly resemble videogame renders" genre
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69 VENISSIEUX Rétro truck 🚚 Le parking de l'usine des camions de chantier BERLIET Années 60
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Georg Scholz hatte in Karlsruhe und bei Lovis Corinth in Berlin studiert. 1920 nahm er mit seinem Gemälde "Industriebauern" an der Ersten Internationalen Dada-Messe in Berlin teil. 1925 wurde er Professor an der Badischen Landeskunstschule.
trahias.bsky.social ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27d
Georg Scholz (German, 1890–1945)
"Small German Town at Night", 1923.
Oil on Cardboard, 100 × 75 cm. (39⅓ × 29½ in.)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
diazcarrete.bsky.social
a partir de aquí xa intuía por onde ía tirar o fío
gintonicgirl7.bsky.social GintonicGirl7 @gintonicgirl7.bsky.social · 2d
Pero yo nunca había tenido lumbago en mi vida, y era de las pocas personas en la oficina a la que no le dolía nada: ni articulaciones, ni espalda, ni nada. Como una rosa. Tuve que ir a más sesiones con el fisio, y un día me dijo que le parecía raro un lumbago que durara tanto...
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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everybody loves the LBK culture, a lovely Neolithic culture of peaceful farmers! *2 excavations later* We regret to inform you the LBK culture engaged in horrific acts of mass slaughter
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Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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see also: Zen Buddhism in WWII
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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A dictionary of Sanskrit philosophical terms (Sanskrit-French-English)
Jean-Marie Verpoorten, Répertoire des termes sanskrits des Ecoles philosophiques indiennes, Strasbourg, 2025, 751 p.

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#SanskritPhilosophy #philsky #philosophy
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November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
diazcarrete.bsky.social
Pascual Duarte hubiese sacado provecho de postear en /r/relationships o seguir algún podcast de psicología.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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FINAL WARNING ITION TTACK ACK INFORMATI N ATTACK ATION ATTACK ACK INFOR LATION ATTACK TION A IN ATTACK INFORMATION ATT Unnecessery INFORMAT INFORMATION JNFORMAT TTACK INFORMATION AT ON ATTACK INFORMATION Brain Canner 일 Insafficient Stares • capacity or useless jani URGEzT verage Adul 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week 365 Days of The Year CONSTANT MENTAL DAMAGE INFORMATION VIRUSES CAN STRIKE AT ANY TIME STOP KNOWING HOW TO READ IDEAL. FORM THERE IS TOO MUCH INFORMATION, FULL PROTECTION HELMET TOO MUCH NOISE FLOODING THE WORLD AROUND US, TOO MANY KEEP SAFE PEOPLE TRYING TO INFLUENCE YOUR THOUGHTS IN WAYS TOO SUBTLE FOR YOU TO NOTICE. THE PATHWAYS OF INFORMATION ARE BEING POLLUTED WITH AN ENDLESS DELUGE OF JUNK DATA KEEPING MIND POTENTIAL LOCKED. POWERFUL MIND WIZARDS ATTACKING AT ALL TIMES INFORMATION DEGRADES OVER TIME-STORING UNNECCESARY INFORMATION CUTS OFF PATHWAYS OF THOUGHT! TOO MANY LISTS, TOO MANY STORIES MADE UP BY A COMPUTER. TOO MANY ADS. BECOME IMMUNE TO ALL PROPAGANDA AND INFLUENCE. BECOME IMMUNE TO PSYCHIC No gaps for unwanted WARLORD CONTROL! external words to enter. DO NOT KNOW HOW TO READ. available at getjackedoffbythepresident.com until march 7th
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
diazcarrete.bsky.social
Poesía? En mi ciencia-ficción?

"The girl I met in Eridu", sacada de la novela "El palacio del amor", de Jack Vance. Dentro de la novela es atribuida a Navarth, uno de los personajes. Original inglés y traducción al castellano.
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La chica que encontré en Eridu era la más tierna de las mujeres; las horas que pasé a su lado fueron demasiado breves. Donde los sauces besan la orilla del río me obligó a descansar; me obsequió con higos y el más dulce de los vinos. Hablé de la gravedad, del tiempo y del espacio, de aquí y de allá. Le pedí que viniera conmigo para ver mundos sin par. Junto las rodillas y con voz suave dijo: «Me aturde imaginar las estrellas brillantes, su fulgor, los caminos que vagan al azar. » Tú eres tú y yo soy yo, es mejor que vuelvas y te quedes en Eridu hasta que aprendas.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Lydia Davis on the virtues of the detective novel for language learning, like having built-in repetition. As the characters try to make sense of the evidence, the reader tries to make sense of the words.
The virtue of the detective novel is that a lot of the material in it is repeated, as the police investigators go over the evidence again and again. Repetition, of course, helps the language-learner to remember the vocabulary. But also, it is easier to learn a word when it is associated with an event, a turn in the plot, a surprising feature in one of the characters. (It is harder to remember vocabulary when it is presented as a list of unrelated words.)
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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"Historia de los heteros" de Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo
Foto de un ejemplar bastante maltrecho de "Historia de los heterodoxos españoles I. España romana y visigoda. Periodo de la Reconquista. Erasmistas y protestantes" de Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. Biblioteca de autores cristianos.
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
diazcarrete.bsky.social
pois non me viría mal; non sería unha compra caprichosa ou frívola
Un trebello quenta-camas no escaparate dunha ferretería.
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
diazcarrete.bsky.social
El mensaje interdimensional en la novela "Los propios dioses" de Asimov (spoiler!) Inglés original y traducción al castellano.
Bronowski looked away. He said, “Pete, did get an answer. Last night. I thought I'd wait for today and think about it, but why think?... Here it is." Lamont's eyes were staring questions. He took the foil and looked at it. There was no punctuation: PUMP NOT STOP NOT STOP WE NOT STOP PUMP WE NOT HEAR DANGER NOT HEAR NOT HEAR YOU STOP PLEASE STOP YOU STOP SO WE STOP PLEASE YOU STOP DANGER DANGER DANGER STOP STOP YOU STOP PUMP "By God," muttered Bronowski, "they sound desperate." Lamont was still staring. He said nothing. Bronovski desvió la mirada. Dijo: -Pete, anoche recibí una contestación y decidíesperar a hoy, para pensarlo. Pero, ¿por qué pen-sar...? Aquí está. Los ojos de Lamont eran dos signos de interroga-ción. Cogió la chapa y la miró. No había puntuación: BOMBA NO PARAR NO PARAR NOSOTROS NO PARAR BOMBA NOSOTROS NO OIR PELIGRO NO OIR NO OIR VOSOTROS PARAR POR FAVOR PARAR VOSOTROS Y ASI NOSOTROS PARAR POR FAVOR VOSOTROS PARAR PELIGRO PELIGRO PELIGRO PARAR PARAR VOSOTROS PARAR BOM-BA. -Dios mío -murmuró Bronovski-, parecen de-sesperados. Lamont continuaba mirando con fijeza. No dijo nada.
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I've mentioned Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains before, but its Silk Road setting deserves more praise

It goes from Francia to Venice, Damascus, Baghdad, Tashkent & Chang'An, following historical events of ~750 AD like the Abbasid revolution, the Battle of Talas, and Tang Dynasty crisis.
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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por que tan confuso 😭 eu só quero ir a miña casiña a miña camiña
Pantalla dunha máquina expedidora de billetes nunha estación de tren en Londres. "Select your preferred route". Tres opcións: "any permitted", "not valid by gatwick express", "thameslink only"
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Introduction to Univalent Foundations of Mathematics with Agda martinescardo.github.io/HoTT-UF-in-A... hachyderm.io/@jonmsterlin...

Programming Language Foundations in Agda plfa.github.io hachyderm.io/@MartinEscar...
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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"Mahadharmaraksita was "a Greek Buddhist head monk" who led 30,000 Buddhist monks from "the Greek city of Alasandra" (Alexandria of the Caucasus), to Sri Lanka for the dedication of the Great Stupa in Anuradhapura during the rule (165–135 BCE) of King Menander I."

World is trippy dude
Mahadharmaraksita - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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There is an amazing array of #wargames on display at Wargaming Initiative in NATO (WIN) 2025. The games explore everything from space warfare, Arctic operations, naval operations, and information & influence operations. #NATO wargaming is growing and entering an exciting chapter.
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM