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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Walk This Way
The ancient Roman Appian Way road network has become Italy’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way, the oldest and most significant road built by the ancient Romans, has been named a Unesco world heritage … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, History, Maps, Public Transport, Tourism
Tagged ancient Rome, Italy
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Literary London
As a great international capital, once at the hub of an enormous colonial Empire, London has long attracted visits by writers, artists and intellectuals from around the world. University College London is curating how London has been seen through the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, History, Maps, Theater, Tourism, Writing
Tagged London, United Kingdom
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We are all wingnuts to somebody and other trivia
Berkeley, CA now has a Wingnut Museum. “The wingnut was invented in the first half of the 19th century and quickly became an indispensable piece of hardware. It lets users fasten bolts by hand, without tools, using little wings jutting out … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Buddha, Little Free Library, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Tim Walz
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In my writing I am acting as a mapmaker
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas… a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs
there really is nothing left to write about
LATE ECHO John Ashbery Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the … Continue reading
in Vienna
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading
Oldest Map in the World
If you stop by TBTP on a regular basis, you are likely aware that I am a bit of a map geek. It all began with a small globe on my childhood nightstand. I don’t discriminate when it comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Film, History, Maps, Middle East, Museums
Tagged Assyria, Cartography, Cuneiform, Iraq, Mesopotamia
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Beautiful Bruges
I count my self lucky to have seen the beautiful Belgian town of Bruges nearly five decades ago before it became overtouristed and Disneyfied. Still, when I have return over the years, I still am enchanted. This charming tilt-shift video … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 