My favorite Fairbanks blogger (actually, a favorite in general, though others might compete for the regional crown if they posted more than once a millennium) linked to Ishkur’s motivational posters and I highly recommend you go there and check them all out. I couldn’t resist sharing the same example. It has monkeys!

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Via First Draft a snippet from Mark Taw’s This I Believe entry:
I could say that I believe in America because it rewarded my family’s hard work to overcome poverty. I could say that I believe in holding on to rituals and traditions because they helped us flourish in a new country. But these concepts are [...]

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If you have even a touch of monkey obsession (as I do), then you must check out the Simiarum et Vespertilionum (follow the Structure link to navigate directly to the plates), one product of a naturalist expedition to Brazil in the early 1800s. The slightly anthropomorphized drawings are fascinating.

I imagine that earlier documents would [...]

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Apparently there is some controversy over how Jill Greenberg provokes the small children to cry… I just think the photos are fantastic. Particularly when paired with her monkey portraits!

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