Category Archives: memoria
John Hughes
How Home Alone Ruined John Hughes | Article from the Atlantic
To see:
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
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Wes Anderson, Fellini, Rossellini
Wes Anderson: Fellini and Rossellini.
To see:
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Rome, Open City (1945)
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Germany, Year Zero (1948)
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Viaggio in Italia (1954)
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Ribbon fish
Dice
On Chinese dice the 4 is always red.
The word for four 四 () and death 死 () sound similar in Mandarin Chinese.
The story of the emperor who ordered the four on dice colored red.
See Tetraphobia.
The character for dice in Chinese 骰子 has the radical 骨 bone as ancient dice were made out of bone.
Types of Chinese dice.
Dice from different countries.
Book: Chinese Games with Dice and Dominoes.
Ancient Board Games at the British Museum.
See list of Chinese radicals.
Chojang-dong and Daewonsa 대원사
Yeontan 연탄
A truckful of yeontan and a stylish coalman in Chojang-dong.
Lost Treasure
El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, 1899. (Wikimedia/United States Geological Survey)
mine bones
Broken mine drill bit.
Tags from a coal mine. 
Upper chamber of a carbide lamp.
see Cataphile
See the Catacombs of Paris
See the Mines of Paris
Map of ancient Parisian mines, 1908 (wikimedia).
Les Innocents cemetery, 1550 (wikimedia).