Spent the day in the park reading the excellent Cabinet Magazine and learned, among many things, that the Pre-Raphaelites used a paint pigment called 'mummy brown' which was made of ground human and feline mummies until the 20th C. when the supply of mummies literally dried up.
Cabinet is a brilliant blend of the unusual and the explicative and satisfies curiosities about the world one never knew they had.
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