Video: Historian Answers Victorian England Questions

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Dr. Bob Nicholson is a wonderful historian of Victoriana — with a special focus on the printed material of the era. I’ve enjoyed following his work for some time!

In this video for Wired, he does a lovely job answering reader questions about Victorian England.

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jlvanderzwan
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I just had to freeze-frame at 1:43 to really take in how hilariously bad the artwork is. I mean look at the tiny dude between the two dancers.

Is it a modern shitty copy/paste collage or like an authentic the 19th century equivalent using paper cut-outs and then photographing that?
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A Long Sleep

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A Long Sleep

And more sleep.

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jlvanderzwan
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"Englightened" centrists trying to sleep through the bad times is how things always get this bad in the first place, you passive asshat.
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#1581; The Longest, Most Fruitless Search

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Continued from Wondermark #024
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jlvanderzwan
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> Wondermark #024, October 14th, 2003

Damn, it's actually been decades
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Do GTA5's Street Signs Comply With California Law?

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jlvanderzwan
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I love this guy so much. He basically does educational videos that happen to use games as the hook. And he doesn't do it to dunk on the devs, he *also* reminds everyone that a game is meant to be fun, and game dev time is all about trade-offs, and that this banger quote:

21:47 "When you forget that things had to be built, you risk inheriting them without gratitude"

... applies to both street signs as well as the games we play.
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Girl Genius for Friday, January 23, 2026

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The Girl Genius comic for Friday, January 23, 2026 has been posted.
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jlvanderzwan
3 days ago
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I guess they missed the part where the Lucrecias said they would hate "to let them go", so obviously they already stowed away another copy on the airship.

Also, I guess this means that they don't mind sacrificing themselves as long as a copy survives
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Artist

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The post Artist appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.

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jlvanderzwan
3 days ago
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Nicholas Gurewitch don't miss
tante
4 days ago
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PBF with a banger again
Berlin/Germany
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