Looking at the wreckage of the present piling up around us it is tempting to go back to
the past, if only to remind us that it could be worse.
The History Blog, an excellent read, has two items, one today
the 28th March and the other yesterday the 27th March both to do with comic
strips, of a kind.
Today's is an
article on the subject of Trajan's Column in Rome, pictured above, a well known
relic. On site it is hard to read as the
sculpted images wind upwards.
In the History
Blog article go down to where it mentions the National Geographic interactive
graphic and click on to see the images as a long strip.
The graphic
also has The Story to click onto for the history of the relevant military
campaigns and what was involved. It was
a hard and harsh business.
On the other
hand, yesterday's deals with cultural matters of a different kind and an ikon
of its time. It is the six minute
Youtube Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Opera Doc".
The Bugs
cartoons are a good guide to the political thinking of the 1950's. Also, it is possibly the best production I
have ever seen or heard of the Richard Wagner Ring Cycle, if only because it is
the shortest.
Having once
stood for a Covent Garden Ring Cycle this is a rare case of being a primary
source.
Neither item
is suitable for persons of a sensitive disposition.
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