Five Things #250
Deal, June 2021
This week’s Five Things…
The ongoing saga of the Ever Given. An interesting long read on what happened to cause it to get stuck in the Suez Canal and what has happened since.
Franz Ferdinand’s song Take Me Out is about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. I did not know that!
I find cities and architecture fascinating. So this piece, The 5 coolest trends in urbanism … in Europe, was right up my alley.
Where’s Wally but emoji style.
“In 1715, a significant chunk of Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch, including a 2-foot-wide swath from the left side of the painting, was lopped off in order to fit the painting in a smaller space.” Absolute madness! Fortunately, AI has come to the rescue so we can now see what it looks like without its side lopped off.
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