popthem

A Popthem is an insight. It comes from the word apothegm - a comment, an anecdote, a statement - something that turns on that light bulb in your brain and makes you think - "so that's what really happened", or "so that's what it means". It's stuff we've read that we found illuminating and that we want to share with others by posting on this blog. See Leondardoswall.com for the latest in how Leondardo Da Vinci got his ideas.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Elizabethans and Cleanliness and Bad Teeth

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POP1 As far as washing, if you're poor, you probably don't bother.  So says Ian Mortimer in the BBC History Magazine.  If you live...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Early America and Portrait Artists

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POP1 Itinerant portrait artists roved around the country looking for portrait commissions.  There were so many of them that William Dunlap...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

They freed the slaves. One was Abraham Lincoln.

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Of two men in history can it be said, "They freed the slaves".  One was Abraham Lincoln.  The other was Epaminondas  (ca. 418 BC ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Islam and Image Deprivation

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Painting of Abu'l Hassan, Persian Ambassador to the Court of St James (England), 1810. Painted by one of the greatest portrait artist...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Plato and the Olympic Games

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                                         The stadium today. POP1 The Olympic Games were held at four-year intervals, and later the ...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Horrors of War

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In his book, "Adventures with The Connaught Rangers 1809 - 1814", William Grattan gives a first hand account of his experiences wi...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

World War II Assassin and Wyatt Earp

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In the Smithsonian magazine of September, 1993, is an article by Robert Wernick, on the wartime activities of an amazingly efficient Britis...
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