Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Miss Cellania's Links

Ig® Nobel Limericks: Beard, Tobacco, Zipper.

Jon Stewart is retiring from The Daily Show. Celebrities reacted immediately on Twitter.

What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living. It’s true, every farmer I know has inherited land, a second job, and a working spouse.

Buy land and become a Lord or Lady for just £29.99! Scottish property law has never been so entertaining as in this Twitter battle over souvenir plots. (via Metafilter)

The Greatest Love Letter. (via Uproxx)

How Victorians Fell in Love With Pocket Change. Back when war, sea travel, or prison sentences meant lovers would be separated for a long time, they left each other with love tokens -real coins sanded down and engraved with names and sentimental messages and symbols.

The History of the Conversation Heart.

The Library of Congress has a special collection of images, donated by the Liljenquist family, of over a thousand ambrotypes and tintypes taken during the Civil War. Some of those soldiers are unbelievably young.

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