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Abaculi: March 2015
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Found digital texts and images, material scans, and occasional snapshots. The Abaculi Project (poems and images). Tuesday, March 31, 2015. For the Birthday, My Part Was Quite Easy, But It Was Hard for the Monkey to Hold the Hoops Still (1877). Emily Huntington Miller, Captain Fritz: His Friends and Adventures. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1877), 86. Monday, March 30, 2015. Poor Little Dog, You May Have Some Cake (1899). Ellen M. Cyr, The Children’s Primer. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1899), 71. 8220;...
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Change Of Address | Balderdash & Poppycock
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Being the writings, rantings, ramblings, musings and phillosophical ponderances of a young fellow as he forges ahead through the miasma of life. In order to more effectively consolidate all of the crap that I have accumulated, all future content will be posted to garymcgrath.wordpress.com. Click to email (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Email check fa...
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Places, Past, Present | streetsofsalem
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October 19, 2012. Places, Past, Present. I’ve been thinking about a short little article. By BBC “History of the World” presenter Andrew Marr about the five most historical places in world history quite a bit since I came across it a few days ago. I love lists, I love history, understanding and developing a strong sense of. Has always been important to me (it’s one of the major themes of this blog), and I teach world history: Marr has my rapt attention! His choices are based on a. Ok, now we take a.
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Transatlantic Trade Cards | streetsofsalem
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January 19, 2011. Everything which would ordinarily go into the waste paper basket after use. Everything printed which is not actually a book. Despite real and digital survivals in collections around the world, these pieces of paper were and are ephemeral—-who knows how many were produced? Survivals are like captured fleeting images from the past, and great examples of both print and popular culture. What did you throw in the trash today that might be valued by historians tomorrow? In the Bodleian Library.
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Der Erdapfel | The Renaissance Mathematicus
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The transition to heliocentricity: The Rough Guides. To Explain the Weinberg: The discovery of a Nobel Laureate’s view of the history of science →. August 13, 2015 · 9:20 am. Artist’s impression of Martin Behaim with his globe. Artist unknown. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The Travels of Marco Polo. Much of the cartographical work is inaccurate even by the standards of the time, including surprisingly the west coast of Africa that Behaim supposedly had explored himself, which brings us to Behaim’s ...
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Biographies Index | The Renaissance Mathematicus
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The transition to heliocentricity: The Rough Guides. This page is currently under construction! Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar. Jerry the Builder from the Waterfall. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel. Is the question ‘who invented the computer’ legitimate? A Confusion of Bernoullis! Bruno was not scientific. Gunfight at the Cubic Corral. The real founder of telescopic astronomy. A Lady of Science. A loser who was really a winner. Nicky was an Ermländer! Of Herbs and Herbals. Too litt...
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A Christmas Album | Culture&Stuff
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A blog that was supposed to be about all sorts, but is now usually found prancing in the footnotes of (often French, and oftener still Parisian) history. 1 All I Want for Christmas Is. 3 Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. 4 Let it Go. 6 Carol of the Bells. 9 Somewhere Out There. 10 Christmas is Just Around the Corner. 11 Christmas Comes to Town. 12 Walking in the Air. 13 O Holy Night. 14 It Feels Like Christmas. Post a Comment Cancel reply. Published nor shared. Required fields are marked *.
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French History | Culture&Stuff
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A blog that was supposed to be about all sorts, but is now usually found prancing in the footnotes of (often French, and oftener still Parisian) history. Category Archives: French History. How the Revolution exposed the dark side of the art of Johann Zoffany. June 22, 2012. Also posted in 18th Century. Madame Jeanne Guyon: The Accused Witch Who Defied King Louis XIV. April 11, 2012. In other words, what is a human being who […]. Also posted in Biography. March 4, 2012. When we left Théroigne de Méricourt...
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Counting the hours | The Renaissance Mathematicus
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The transition to heliocentricity: The Rough Guides. Grieving for a man I never met. October 31, 2013 · 5:22 pm. Rebekah Becky Higgitt, wrote a charming post. On her H-Word Blog. To mark the end of European summer time describing the mad scheme of a certain William Willett to introduce the time change in twenty minute increments over several weeks. This reminded me of a local time phenomenon that I’ve not yet blogged about, Der Große Nürnberger Uhr. Date of change 1. Date of change 2. 8220;The time taken...
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