#burneddown — Public Fediverse posts

“If a famous painting changed owners, if a precious manuscript was sold at auction, if an old palace burned down, if the bearer of an aristocratic name was involved in a scandal, the readers of many thousands of feature articles at once learned the facts. What is more, on that same day or by the next day at the latest they received an additional dose of anecdotal, historical, psychological, erotic, and other stuff on the catchword of the moment.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/01/if-a-famous-painting-changed-owners-if-a-precious-manuscript-was-sold-at-auction-if-an-old-palace-burned-down-if-the-bearer-of-an-aristocratic-name-was-involved-in-a-scandal-the-readers-of-many/

#additionalDose #anecdotal #aristocraticName #atTheLatest #bearer #book #burnedDown #catchword #changedOwners #ClassicAmericanLiterature #ClassicLiteratureFiction #Classics #erotic #facts #famousPainting #featureArticles #games #GamesFiction #GermanLiterature #germany #hermannHesse #historical #involvedInAScandal #learned #literaryFiction #magisterLudi #manyThousands #moment #nextDay #oldPalace #otherStuff #preciousManuscript #psychological #quote #readers #received #sameDay #Scholars #ScholarsGermanyFiction #soldAtAuction #TheGlassBeadGame

Altadena, 7 Weeks Later

It's been seven weeks since the wildfires in Altadena destroyed over 10,000 structures.

Unless you live there or close to LA, I doubt you think about it much.

Not so for the people who used to live there (or who still have a home but can

https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/altadena-7-weeks-later/

#AerialPhoto #California #NorthAmerica #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #Altadena #BurnedDown #California #fires #LAFires #Pasadena #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #wildfire