Posts tagged “history”
Eight Memorable Moments
Core memories for 1973ers
A Look Back to the Future
This is sure to be wildly popular: Google 2001. “In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.” How cool is that? It’s pretty funny to do some searches to see what they’d indexed. I’m strangely proud to note, of course, that
Among the Mansions of Eden
A quick book review
If ancient Rome had the Internet…
Funny: If ancient Rome had the Internet…
Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
On Jonathan Edwards’ Resolutions and Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanacks
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
In destinies sad or merry, True men can but try.
Ancient Texts
I’ve seen this linked in several places recently, but it’s such a great story I wanted to link it here too. The villa probably belonged to Lucius Calpurnius Piso, father-in-law of Julius Caesar and one of the rulers of the Roman republic. In AD79, a century after his death, it was buried under 30 metres
Longitude
I finished reading Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel this afternoon. It is a wonderful book.
the origins of my blog
<random notes> My blog’s first birthday was this month, but I’ve been maintaining web sites continuously since early in 1993. One of my original sites was simply a collection of Hemingway essays that I posted on line in lieu of writing a term paper. At one point I managed to publish almost every writing assignment