Liminoid History

Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species manuscript (1859).

Only 42 full pages from Darwin’s manuscript are known to survive today. On the verso of one of them you can find a drawing by Darwin’s son Francis (1848-1925) showing a soldier on a carrot battling a cavalier on an eggplant.

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The tomb of the alleged father of Jesus, Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera (on the left). Bingerbrück, Germany (via Wiki).

Greek philosopher Celsus wrote on Jesus:

Jesus had come from a village in Judea, and was the son of a poor Jewess who gained her living by the work of her own hands. His mother had been turned out of doors by her husband, who was a carpenter by trade, on being convicted of adultery [with a soldier named Panthéra (i.32)]. Being thus driven away by her husband, and wandering about in disgrace, she gave birth to Jesus, a bastard. Jesus, on account of his poverty, was hired out to go to Egypt. While there he acquired certain (magical) powers which Egyptians pride themselves on possessing. He returned home highly elated at possessing these powers, and on the strength of them gave himself out to be a god.

(Origen, Contra Celsum 1.28; translation: R.S. Mead, Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.?, London 1903)

X-ray photo of the corset front camber, from Le Corset. Historie — Médecine — Hygiène. Ouvrage illustré de 143 Figures et de 4 Planches hors texte (Paris 1908) by Dr. Ludovic O’Followell. 

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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis. Vide, The Account of that unfortunate Monarch’s Execution. London 1793.

As the blade of the guillotine severs the head of Louis XVI, devils stand on the platform and fly overhead, singing “Vive la nation” (“Long live the nation”) and “Ça ira”, the emblematic song of the French Revolution. This British print was published in London just four days after the execution of Louis XVI on 21 January 1793.

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Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson, being captured by a Secret Service agent after she tried to shoot President Gerald Ford with a Colt .45 handgun (Sacramento, California, Sept. 5, 1975). Fromme was sentenced to life in prison, and was paroled in 2009.