Gustave Doré’s depiction of Don Quixote amid his fantasies of chivalric romance: frontispiece to a 1863 edition of the 17th-century masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes, who died #onthisday in 1616.
More on the imagery of Don Quixote here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-don-quixote #otd
111 West 57th Street is a residential skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, constructed between 2015 and 2021. Also known as Steinway Tower, it is the fourth-tallest building in the United States at 1,428 feet (435 m) and the world’s thinnest skyscraper with a width-to-height ratio of about 1:24. Its 84 floors contain 60 luxury condominiums.
A few of the 28 spectacular “pattern poems” produced by the Frankish Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus in his 9th-century work De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross). More examples, and an explanation of how they work, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/medieval-pattern-poems-of-rabanus-maurus-9th-century