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According to an unverified source, today is the anniversary of the first public library opening. Dating this aniversary is all the more problematic because if you go back far enough, people’s definitions of “public library” start to differ significantly . For instance, did the dry sections of Roman baths where there were scrolls available for [...]
Some time ago, in an earlier edition of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, we looked at some of the most overt, excessive and unsubtle phallic monuments built by man. While the need to put power, potency and might into concrete (and steel and glass) expression smacks of typical late-capitalist chauvinism, it would be a mistake [...]
Okay, so there probably aren’t too many bathrooms around the world that are anything like that, but it makes you wonder, don’t it? It made us wonder, wonder so hard in fact that we set out to find (on the Interweb, of course) some of the world’s glitziest, wildest and most stylish bathroom.
To our surprise, [...]