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darkparisian · 8 months
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𝓛𝓪 𝓢𝓸𝓻𝓫𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓮
Est. 1257
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lionofchaeronea · 1 year
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Statuette (white marble) of Hermaphroditus, the mixed-gender child of Hermes and Aphrodite. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. BCE (Hellenistic). Thought to have come from Rhodes; now in the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Fast Moving G
A fast moving Amtrak GG1 is about to fly through Princeton Jct. in May 1977.
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disease · 1 year
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Albert Einstein’s office—just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it, taken mere hours after Einstein died. | April 1955
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princetonarchives · 3 months
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Although the first intercollegiate American football game was infamously played on Princeton's campus in 1869, for the first few years, it would have been unrecognizable as American football to most who know the game today. Samuel Cowart, Class of 1876, described an incident that occurred in a game with Yale on December 15, 1873, when the ball got caught between teams and popped when both sides kicked it at the same time: “It was a spherical/heavy rubber ball, blown up with a key. They had to take a team of horses and go back to New Haven, in order to get another football.”
Photo: The 1873 Princeton football team with its round ball in front of the man in the top hat. Historical Photograph Collection, Campus Life Series (AC112), Box LP36, Image No. 2522.
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jahtheexplorer · 3 months
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Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
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storytime-reviews · 1 year
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Ancient history books I bought on discount in January from Princeton University Press!
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garadinervi · 10 months
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Albert Einstein's autographed note to Adriana Enriques, Federigo Enriques' daugther, (notebook), Bologna, October 1921 [Bibl.: Vincenzo Barone – Marco Ciardi, Il novecento in tasca. Scienza e cultura nel taccuino di Adriana Enriques, Hapax Editore, Torino, 2021. Albert Einstein, The Human Side. New Glimpses From His Archives, Selected and Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1979
«Das Studium und allgemein das Streben nach Wahrheit und Schönheit ist ein Gebiet, auf dem wir das ganze Leben lang Kinder bleiben dürfen.»
«Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. To Adrianna Enriques, a memento of our acquaintanceship of October 1921»
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deadpresidents · 9 months
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I ask this every month or two but what have you been reading lately?
•True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times (BOOK | AUDIO | KINDLE) by Robert Greenfield
•The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee (BOOK | AUDIO | KINDLE) by Paul R. Gregory
•Wahhabism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement (BOOK | KINDLE) by Cole M. Bunzel
•The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (BOOK | KINDLE) by Patrick Weil This is a really interesting new book about one of the more unique Presidential biographies ever written. William C. Bullitt was a longtime American diplomat and former supporter of Woodrow Wilson who blamed the failure of American ratification of the Treaty of Versailles following World War I on the worrisome personality changes he witnessed in President Wilson after Wilson suffered a stroke and serious health issues in the final years of his Presidency. Bullitt was close to Sigmund Freud and he teamed with Freud to write a psychological biography about Wilson several years after Wilson's death. The book they wrote (Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study) was very controversial and wasn't even published until nearly 30 years after Freud himself died. It's a really fascinating story and Weil's book -- as well as the original book by Bullitt and Freud -- reveal the potential dangers behind Presidential disability.
•The World: A Family History of Humanity (BOOK | AUDIO | KINDLE) by Simon Sebag Montefiore
•Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (BOOK | AUDIO | KINDLE) by Simon Winchester I try to read every book that Simon Winchester writes. It seems like he's written books about basically every subject under the sun, and I can't think of a single one that I didn't find interesting.
•The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero of the Union Army (BOOK | KINDLE) by Dean Calbreath The subtitle of this book alone makes it pretty clear that this is one hell of a story about a man who lived quite a life.
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aryburn-trains · 1 year
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AMTRAK - 969 - a General Electric E60CP heads the 'Minute Man', Boston - Washington, at Princeton Junction, NJ, in May 1976.
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devil-of-books · 1 year
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it’s just so funny to name animals human names like-
“oh don’t mind Kevin there, he’s just suspicious of the mail truck”
“…. Kevin believes in McCarthyism”
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lionofchaeronea · 2 months
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At the Window, Winslow Homer, 1872
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Amtrak G Motors
Two Amtrak GG1's are southbound at Princeton Jct. N.J. at a high rate. the lead motor, 4939 was originally PRR 4928 and is now preserved in pinstripes at the Illinois Railway Museum.
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unexfunstuff · 1 month
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About Isaac Newton's alchemical experiments.
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jahtheexplorer · 4 months
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Princeton University
Beautiful architecture is the first word that comes to my mind. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the beautiful details of the structures, that what settled in Princeton since 1956. Though it was founded in 1756 in Elizabeth, NJ.
I particularly love this photo because of the pattern of the shadows and columns
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