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Back in my day games asked you to write things on note paper in real life in order to solve puzzles
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Not that anyone cares but I have also been to these baths bc I was lucky enough to be in Budapest the ONE day a month or whatever they allow women
The Structures of Everyday Life ordinary interiors and the ingenuity of its storage space. In spring 1699, Osman Aga passed through Buda (recaptured by the Christians in 1686) on his difficult journey home to freedom (he had been taken prisoner, or rather reduced to slavery by the Germans at the capture of Lipova ten years earlier). There, he was thoroughly happy to be able to make his way to 'the magnificent baths of the town' 6 They were of course the Turkish baths on the bank of the Danube below the fortified town and had admitted everyone, without charge, since the time of the Ottoman domination.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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It seems kind of strange that so many cultures didn’t invent the table. If you’re Russian, you’re writing on your knees on tough paper. Is that not so annoying it causes the table? Apparently not
Traditional civilizations and unchanging interiors Rule number two: traditional civilizations remain faithful to their accustomed décor. A Chinese interior of the fifteenth century could equally well date from the eighteenth, if one ignores certain variations - porcelains, paintings and bronzes. The traditional Japanese house looked in the sixteenth or the seventeenth century much as it does today, except for the coloured prints that came in during the eighteenth century. The same applies to the Indies. And Muslim interiors of the past can be imagined from those of the present. Non-European civilizations, except for the Chinese, were in any case poor in furniture. There were practically no chairs in India and no tables: in Tamil the word for table - mecei - derives from the Portuguese (mesa). There were no chairs in Black Africa where Benin artists were content to imitate European chairs. Neither were there chairs or for that matter high tables in Islam or the countries under its influence. An item in the invective against the Moriscoes in the Antialcorán by the Spanish writer Pérez de Chinchón (I532) is this odd claim to superiority: We Christians sit at a proper height, not on the ground like animals?6 In the Muslim part of Yugoslavia, in Mostar for instance, it was still normal some twenty years ago for guests to sit on cushions around a low table. The custom is still kept up in certain families attached to tradition, and in many villages. 63 In 1699, Dutch merchants were advised to take very strong paper to Muscovy; having few tables, the Russians wrote mostly on their knees and so had to have a tough type of paper.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM