June: “Don’t Spoil a Good Dream”

“Don’t Spoil a Good Dream,” illustration by Frank Mack, calendar, South Pacific Base Command headquarters, US Army, 1945. (In the public domain.)

October

My current header/cover picture on most of my online social media accounts. 🎃🎃🎃

🖺 “October,” illustration by Mildred C. Jones, St. Nicholas, Oct. 1905, 1142. (In the public domain.)

Bizarre Pansy Creature

⚘ The bizarre pansy creature wishes you a happy new year (לשנה טובה). 📅

Nineteenth or Twentieth Century Roʼsh hash‐Shana greeting card in the collection of the Yeshiva University Museum. (Photograph apparently by the Center for Jewish History. Per their Web site: “This material may be used for personal, research and educational purposes only.” Per the corresponding page on Flickr: “No known copyright restrictions.”)

Sciatica ideographs

These are the ideographs (three emoji characters and an Egyptian hieroglyph) that I used in my sciatica post, arranged like a comic strip to be read from left to right and lightheartedly portraying how my walking was affected by sciatic pain.

🚶 PEDESTRIAN

💥 COLLISION SYMBOL (here representing the sudden onset of pain)

😧 ANGUISHED FACE

𓀗 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A019 (“bent man with cane,” “be infirm; old …”)

Graphic by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.
• The glyphs for the first three characters (🚶, 💥, 😧) are from the Twitter Emoji set, developed by Twitter with the Iconfactory, under a Creative Commons license.

• The glyph for the final character (𓀗) is from the open‐source Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs font, commissioned by Google, under the Apache License.

August

🖻 “A Heading for August,” headpiece by Wesley R. de Lappe in “St. Nicholas League,” St. Nicholas, Aug. 1904, 944. (In the public domain.) Internet Archive, Flickr.

The Spirit of 76th: the 76th Street Eagle 𐇮

📷 The spirit of 76^th: the 76^th Street eagle. 𐇮 #JacksonHeights #NYC #patriotism #eagle #winter #tree #QueensLove #QNSLUV (at Jackson Heights, NY)

📆 34-02 76^th Street, Jackson Heights, 10 December 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures shot that day can be viewed on Facebook.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/Tz9JS-tW6G/

Bukharan Jews

🎨 Lev Evgrafovich Dmitriev‐Kavkazsky, Bukharan Jews, pencil on colored paper, dated 1875, in the public domain.

Also available on Tumblr.