...news . The British Library has put two million digitised pages from 19th century newspapers online, taking research out of its dusty reading rooms into people's homes. The pay-as-you-go service brings a century of history alive from Jack the Ripper to WG Grace. Shame it costs, though:(. At least some parts of it are free, but damn. That's historical candy right there. Arrrgh, why can't I be an...
... be found here in ‘1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World’. Over 370 pages of colour photographs and written in an accessible style for those with limited knowledge of either Islam or history. A golden age of civilization, from 600 and 1600 CE, will unfold, because medieval Muslims were trailblazers in fields as diverse as medicine and mechanics, cartography and chemistry, education and ...
... me something shocking this past week or two. Writing History can be astonishingly difficult. I would venture to say...I'm lucky to have written a paragraph of History - or, for that matter, sufficiently read the relevant historical.... People just have no idea what goes into History, and it's disheartening the way it's ... uninformed cretins who probably haven't even read a page of any academic history.
... State Economies [link to pdf download], which I found enlightening. The references to the origins and history of money I found particularly striking, so have followed up by reading John F. Henry The Social ... as a thing in itself. What I did very much get out of both pieces on the history of money was how important debt and liability is in creation and development of money and how unhelpful ...
Title: History of Jung Yunho 101 Pairing: Yunjae/Yoosu Rating: PG Genre: Humor, Drama Summary: Jaejoong learned about Yunho's life before teaching. A/N All my law facts are from wikipedia and SNU online course descriptions. I'm not a law student. The case in this story is fake. Previous Verses just in case you missed them: The Naked Man The Lewd Man The Art of De-Stressing The (Not-So) ...
Довольно часто в последнее время слышу весьма критические замечания в адрес Высоцкого и его песенного творчества. Моё мнение о Высоцком-песеннике таково: Высоцкий был народный поэт, отразивший и выразивший своё время (1940е - 1970е), со всеми его достоинствами и недостатками. Никто точнее и лучше него этого не сделал - по крайней мере в наиболее доступных широкой публике формах. К нему может быть...
Японский вариант алебарды с наконечником в виде широкого сабельного однолезвийного клинка, загнутого на конце. Изначально использовалась простыми пешими воинами в основном для подсечения ног лошадей. Впоследствии нагината, искусно выполненная и богато инкрустированная, появляется у знатных всадников, а с XVII в. становится женским оружием. Нагина́та - имеет рукоять длиной около...
I've been slow in getting these up, but here are three videos depicting walkthroughs of some of the camps at the Reading Airshow's World War II Weekend on June 7th, 2009. The first is of the Russian camp, the second and third are of the US camps (European and Pacific Theaters). The last two are behind the cut, for space and sanity's sake.
Mental Floss Magazine gives us a list of untold stories from the Civil War. For example, women in combat: "Hundreds of women on both sides pulled a Mulan, assuming male identities and appearances so that they might fight for their respective nations. Some of them did it for adventure, but many did it for monetary reasons: the pay for a male soldier was about $13 month, which was close to ...
