#1 is "Emperor Nero's Emerald":
In his work Natural History, Pliny the Elder described how the Roman Emperor Nero would watch gladiator matches through an emerald. This has been considered by some as a rather opulent, if a bit ambiguous, account of a precursor to sunglasses. Some speculate that this was because Nero was near-sighted or that it was meant to shield the Sun’s glare....
You might think I'm reading this because of my own surprising moment having to do with sunglasses, a few posts down, here. But no, Nero's emerald came up in the "Car Tongs" episode of "The Frank Skinner Show" podcast, which I've been bingeing on lately.
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The greatest glassmakers in the world invented colored sunglasses. Makes sense.
I want those Goldoni glasses in my prescription.
I see nothing about ZZ Top wearing cheap sunglasses or Corey Hart wearing them at night.
"I got my dark sunglasses
I got for good luck my black tooth
I got my dark sunglasses
I’m carryin’ for good luck my black tooth
Don’t ask me nothin’ about nothin’
I just might tell you the truth"
Has there ever been an Ann Althouse post with fewer comments? Currently five including this one.
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