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Courtesans photographed by Farsari

Adolfo Farsari (11 February 1841 – 7 February 1898) was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer. His photographic work was highly regarded, particularly his hand-coloured portraits and landscapes, which he sold mostly to foreign residents and visitors to the country. Farsari's images were widely distributed, presented or mentioned in books and periodicals, and sometimes recreated by artists in other media; they shaped foreign perceptions of the people and places of Japan and to some degree affected how Japanese saw themselves and their country. His studio  – the last notable foreign-owned studio in Japan – was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms. Largely due to Farsari's exacting technical standards and entrepreneurial abilities, it had a significant influence on the development of photography in Japan. ( Full article... )

Nesselrode pudding

• ... that novelist Susie Boyt described Nesselrode pudding (example pictured) as tasting "of Christmas, without any of the disappointment"?
• ... that, according to Guyanese authorities, an oil tanker seized by the United States off the coast of Venezuela in 2025 was falsely flying Guyana's flag?
• ... that a 70-foot (21 m) statue of Lionel Messi was unveiled in India during his G.O.A.T. India Tour ?
• ... that " Right Here, Right Now " was Giorgio Moroder's first song in 15 years to reach the top of the US Dance Club Songs chart?
• ... that future Slavic-language professor Marc L. Greenberg learned Slovene after his fiancée sent him a bilingual dictionary and started writing letters to him only in Slovene?
• ... that the Genshin Impact character Alhaitham is believed to be named after a polymath from the Islamic Golden Age?
• ... that Diego García Miravete and his college football team's games were closely monitored by the Mexican government in the early 1970s?
• ... that Erykah Badu recorded Mama's Gun at what was once Jimi Hendrix's apartment?
• ... that some reviewers thought that A Short Hike was too short?

Anutin Charnvirakul

• In the Thai general election , the Bhumjaithai Party, led by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul (pictured), wins the most seats in the House of Representatives.
• In American football, the Seattle Seahawks defeat the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl .
• The Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, wins a landslide victory in the Japanese general election .
• A suicide attack at a mosque during Friday prayers kills at least 33 people in Islamabad, Pakistan.

February 11 : Little New Year in southern China (2026); National Foundation Day in Japan

Location of the Carnival tragedy of 1823

• 1584 – Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded the town of Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived colonies at the Strait of Magellan.
• 1823 – Around 110 boys were killed in a human crush at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti (corridor pictured) in Valletta on the last day of the Maltese Carnival.
• 1938 – The BBC aired an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. in the first broadcast of science fiction on television.
• 2015 – Turkish student Özgecan Aslan was murdered during a rape attempt , sparking mass demonstrations across the country after her body was discovered two days later.
• 2018 – Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashed shortly after take-off in Russia due to icing conditions, killing all 71 people on board.