Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds | History Today

If you’ve never encountered this aspect of Anglo-Saxon England before, there is a ready explanation. To the founding fathers of academic history – the scholars of late Victorian and early 20th-century England – the Anglo-Saxons were ‘us’, and it was from them that we derived much of our identity and culture: not only our language, but also our cherished institutions, such as our shires and boroughs, and our instinctive tendency towards freedom, fair play and democracy. In the minds of many, the Anglo-Saxon witan was a forerunner of Parliament. Such scholars, unsurprisingly, chose not to dwell on the subject of Anglo-Saxon slavery, or sought to explain it away in terms that suggested it was somehow good for the slaves.

This Simple Problem Took Speedrunners 25 Years To Solve – YouTube

Ik ben een grote fan van Karl Jobst en hoe hij de Goldeneye speedruns — bijna dertig jaareen going concern — bevattelijk maakt.

En waanzinnig ook, dat 25 jaar na datum er nog eens ene seconde van dit record geschaafd is.

REVIEW: Math from Three to Seven, by Alexander Zvonkin

Consider it a mirror image of the Needham Question: Joseph Needham famously wondered why it was that, despite having a vastly larger population and GDP, Imperial China nevertheless lost out scientifically to the West. Well, with the Soviets it all went in the opposite direction: they had a smaller population, a worse starting industrial base, a lower GDP, and a vastly less efficient economic system. How, then, did they maintain military and technological parity with the United States for so long?

REVIEW: Science in Traditional China, by Joseph Needham

There’s an old trope that the Chinese invented gunpowder and had it for six hundred years, but couldn’t see its military applications and only used it for fireworks. I still see this claim made all over the place, which surprises me because it’s more than just wrong, it’s implausible to anybody with any understanding of human nature.

tl;dr: ‘t is allemaal de schuld van politiek.

The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web

Heerlijke website. Ik vergeet altijd dat hij bestaat en dan kom ik er op omdat er iets interessants op staat, en ben ik weer een eeuwigheid kwijt.

Cartesius

The most beautiful plans, maps and aerial photographs of Belgium and Central Africa online. A unique cooperation by the National Geographic Institute, the Royal Library, the State Archives and the Royal Museum for Central Africa.

Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011)

In the virtual corridors of RadioShackCatalogs.com, a digital archive unfolds like a time capsule, preserving the history of RadioShack from its inception in 1921.  As a venerable retailer, RadioShack had been a cornerstone of innovation for over 100 years, providing an array of cutting-edge technology products and services that spanned personal, mobile, and home technology.

The heart of this online archive lay in its collection of catalogs, spanning the years 1939 to 2011.  For 72 years, RadioShack had meticulously crafted these catalogs, showcasing a diverse range of products that mirrored the evolving landscape of technology.  From hi-fidelity stereos to communication equipment, from computers to electronic components, these catalogs are a visual journey through the history of RadioShack.

radiac/nanodjango: Full Django in a single file – views, models, API ,with async support. Automatically convert it to a full project.

Write a Django site in a single file, using views, models and admin
Run it locally or in production, or share it as a standalone script
Automatically convert it to a full Django project when you’re ready for it to grow

Divers in Mexico’s Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, Fossils and Human Remains | Smithsonian

Cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula are time capsules preserving remnants of Maya culture and fossils of extinct megafauna

A Trail Gone Cold • Damn Interesting

NIET BAN VAN ZWARTE MAN!

Against the odds, a tiny Icelandic town speaks of a local Black ancestor. Geneticists and historians combine forces to uncover the man’s eventful life.

High Throughput Marble Elevator – Marble Clock Seconds Display Pt.6 – YouTube

Ivan Miranda is een complete zot. Zijn knikkeruurwerk wordt met de maand groter en indrukwekkender.

Virtual Angkor

The Virtual Angkor project aims to recreate the sprawling Cambodian metropolis of Angkor at the height of the Khmer empire’s power and influence around 1300 C.E. A groundbreaking collaboration between Archaeologists, Historians and Virtual History specialists based in Australia, Cambodia and the United States, the project is designed to bring Angkor to life. Built for the classroom, it has been created to take students into a 3D world, allowing them to view the famous bas-reliefs first hand without leaving their seats, to inspect a marketplace selling goods from across the region and to watch as thousands of animated people and processions circulate around the complex. The reconstructed city enables teachers to draw students into an immersive, historically accurate world and then to use this as a starting point for further investigation.

Personal names around the world

Namen, adressen, datums: allemaal recepten voor miserie in database- en applicatiedesign.