History

Genoa in January 2023

Piazza de Ferrari, the Ancient Port, streets, plaques, and the flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Wisdom ignored

More than two thousand years have passed since Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers gave us great wisdom

Passports

Hardly anybody knows that passports were introduced following World War 1 only as a temporary measure

Stolen symbols

The swastika, the Roman salute, and the rainbow are all esthetically powerful symbols that happened to be appropriated by evil movements

Good vibrations in unlikely circumstances

I fondly remember having uniquely good vibrations in two unlikely circumstances of the recent past

Some typography history

People wanted to write faster, so they created minuscule letters with simpler ducts. This happened before typefaces were conceptualised

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