Tag: History
Qwerty forever
Greek and Roman Materials
Perseus Digital Library, an indispensable resource for students of antiquity.
Bringing the digital age to the Soviet Union
Automata
Shades of Sinbad! BBC In Our Time tackles automata from ancient Greece all the way through the medieval and Enlightenment periods. Takeaway: robots and self-moving devices are an old, old tradition.
The devil is in the details
A fascinating look at how to dress spies appropriately, because one wrong seam or button could give your asset away.
A brief history of Vim
The veterans America forgot
They fought and died for America, and America turned its back on them. Heartbreaking story on Filipino-American veterans.
Queen of Magic
Bloody Mexica
We may never fully fathom other cultures, so claims this Nautilus essay. To bolster its case it presents Friar Sahagun’s ethnography of the Mexica civilization. It’s gruesome and bloody, with lurid tales of a mountain of human sacrifice. But it’s also part of a strange culture with a hierarchy of nobility that the article equates to upper crust England.