1 August, Swiss National Day.

It seems this classic has always been phenomenally ugly. A genesis of William Strunk and E.B. White’s the Elements of Style at Biblio Researching.

1. Unknown
2. Kansas
3. Oklahoma

Photos from the LIFE archives

Previously: Café Culture.

“Initially a painter, draughtsman, and graphic designer, Walter Pfeiffer started to use photographs as aide-memoirs while working on large-scale photorealist pencil drawings in the early 1970s. But he soon developed a genuine passion for photography and its capacity to capture transient epiphanies of beauty.”

Images from In Love With Beauty, published 2008.

1. Paris
2. Copenhagen
3. Istanbul

Photos from the LIFE archives

From the Orange County Agricultural Fair in Orange, Virginia.

Title pages from the first four editions of Leaves of Grass published in Whitman’s day. Thanks to the Whitman Archive.

The Wolpertinger is not a typical cryptid, as local people likely never believed in its existence. Rather, it is some kind of traditional prank belief, as is evident from the many stuffed Wolpertingers displayed in village inns along with real hunting trophies, which have been fabricated deliberately in order to make fun of gullible foreigners who may want to go hunting for this remarkable animal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger

Handmade lemon peel baseballs. The Lemon Ball at Etsy.