Archive for April, 2007
The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Year War
And you thought the hundred year war was long. From wikipedia:
The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War (1651–1986) was a war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly (located off the southwest coast of the United Kingdom). It is said to have been extended by the lack of a peace treaty for 335 […]
Pictures From The Past
I found two interesting blog devoted to posting history. The first is Shorpy which labels itself “the 100-year-old photo blog.” I have wanted, and toyed with the idea of doing something like this myself–posting historical material within a blog format. People of today spend so much time blogging, why not give history a voice in […]
Changes For The Better, Soon
As regular readers are aware, I discovered last month that I had been hacked in February. As best I can determine, the method was simple and affected area limited. Before the hack I had been running an outdated version of the software Wordpress (very bad me). Taking an advantage of a vulnerability in the older […]
Book Review: Heidi
The best children’s books are those that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, is that type of book.
I have vivid memories from my childhood of listening to Heidi as a book on tape. More recently, in the past month I read the book to my grandfather as his bedtime […]
First Chess-Playing Machine
Before Deep Blue, someone else was beating the chess players of the world over two hundred years earlier. Okay, so it wasn’t really a computer, but people thought it was. From wikipedia:
The Turk was a famous hoax that purported to be a chess-playing machine. Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by the Hungarian baron Wolfgang von […]
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