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By Think Progress on Aug 23, 2019 in: News, History, Politics
One of the most unexpected turns of Donald Trump’s presidency came this week, when revelations spilled out about the president’s serious consideration of the purchase Greenland from Denmark. According to the Washington Post, senior admini...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Aug 23, 2019 in: Christian, France, history
Erfurt (Germany) and Colmar (France) are 540 ks apart, but I am mentioning the two towns together for one important reason. “Treasures of the Black Death” was the name of a 2009 exhibition of medieval jewellery at London’s Wallace Collectio...
By Boing Boing on Aug 21, 2019 in: Video, History
In Derry, New Hampshire, a time capsule from 1969 was finally opened on its 50th anniversary yet it was completely empty. The time capsule was inside a small safe with the combination on the back. It was originally stored at the town's municipal buil...
By Boing Boing on Aug 21, 2019 in: Video, books, History, publishing, videos
On the Under the Knife show, Dr Lindsey Fitzharris elucidates the weird history of "anthropodermic bibliopegy," the weird practice of binding books in human skin, including the doctor who bound case histories in the skins of his dead patients, and th...
By Thinking Out Aloud on Aug 20, 2019 in: books, economics, history, marriage
I am writing a book on marriage for Connor Court. It would be very helpful to have some "beta readers" to run a critical eye over drafts of the chapters (and appendices) of the book.So, if you are interested in being such a reader, say so in the comm...
By Boing Boing on Aug 20, 2019 in: History, Technology
In 1994, Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong fired up the San Francisco FogCam. For 25 years, it kept a constant vigil on the San Francisco State University campus, making the FogCam the longest operating webcam in history. (The first webcam, the Trojan Room...
By Think Progress on Aug 18, 2019 in: News, History, Politics
In a sweeping and ambitious journalistic project, the New York Times on Sunday launched its 1619 series, reframing the American story around a single, pivotal historical event: the arrival to America 400 years ago this month of the first enslaved Afr...