A blog by Katriina Etholén
Death: A Graveside Companion is a gorgeous looking and heavy – definitely not suitable for bedtime reading/studying – book edited by Joanna Ebenstein. On the cover it says “1,000 macabre illustrations” and that tells it all; it’s a book of illustrations. But although the certainty of death should encourage us to take it with the... Continue Reading →
Music Archive is a series, where I write about albums or singles that have been released years ago, too long time ago to be enclosed in the “Reviews” category. Music Archive is thus forming its own subcategory under “Reviews”, even though these write-ups are not reviews, maybe not always even presentations. They are just stories... Continue Reading →
The Bridgewater Canal and the Barton Aqueduct that carried it over the River Irwell at Barton-upon-Irwell in the Greater Manchester area, was opened on 17 July 1761. As I have seen only tiny parts of the canal, the part that crosses Manchester Ship Canal and the canal terminus in Manchester, I am just showing some... Continue Reading →
Today, 11 July 2021, is the day for the EURO2020 final match between Italy and England. (EURO2020 is not a typing error, the name of the tournament was kept even though the event was postponed 'till 2021.) EURO2020 was also a special tournament for the Finland national football team (male), as it had made its... Continue Reading →
Filter Station, one of the water treatment plants of the Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company in Warsaw (MPWiK), has been existing for 135 years. It's known nowadays as Water Supply Plant “Filter Station”, or informally just "filter station", or "Lindley's Filters". I visited there in September 2011 in order to write a 125th anniversary... Continue Reading →
British anatomist and surgeon, Henry Gray, died on 13 June 1861 at the age of 34, three years after Gray’s Anatomy was published. Very little is known about Henry Gray, but his masterpiece is still going strong. Dr Ruth Richardson, who has written a book about making of Gray’s Anatomy, starts her book by... Continue Reading →
George Stephenson was born on 9 June 1781 in Wylam. If you have at least some knowledge about a railway history, you must have heard of him. He was fighting for locomotive engines against fixed engines on railways on his own, when all the contemporary leading engineers as well as public opinion were against him.... Continue Reading →
I have wonderful memories from the 2016 Camden Rocks Festival. I attended the festival first time and I was happy to be there with my friend, Dave Renegade, who knows everyone and who knew which bands to go to see. I got some new friends, too. The festival took place on 4 June 2016 and... Continue Reading →
