The Verge Historic Painting: "San Francisco Fire" by William A. Coulter, 1906. 117 years ago today, San Francisco reaped the whirlwind. This is what it looked like.
The fiery curtain call: The Theatre Royal Drury Lane fire of 1809. "May a man not be allowed to drink a glass of wine by his own fireside?"
The strangest movie I have ever seen: “The Osterman Weekend” and the story behind it. Crossbow arrows, a nude John Hurt and a script possibly written on hallucinogens. What's not to like?
Interiors: Biblioteca Palafoxiana, ancient library in Ciudad de Puebla, Mexico. This beautiful library room represents one of the great intellectual repositories of Colonial Mexico.