‘Father of cell phone’ reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago (whyy.org)
The Surprisingly Bloody History of the Barber Pole (www.snopes.com)
A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last (www.nytimes.com)
Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine (blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)
Kristallnacht, 85 years ago, marks the point Hitler moved from an emotional antisemitism to a systematic antisemitism of laws and government violence (theconversation.com)
Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe (www.youtube.com)
Full Yale Lecture Series on Ancient Greek History (www.youtube.com)
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Renaissance Knives Had Music Engraved on the Blades and Now You Can Hear the Songs Performed by Modern Singers | Open Culture (www.openculture.com)
A Photo Appreciation of Star Forts (www.theatlantic.com)
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century (resobscura.substack.com)
Sorry Computer, You're Not a Teapot - The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
The rise and fall of ‘propaganda’ as a positive concept: a digital reading of Swedish parliamentary records, 1867–2019 (www.tandfonline.com)
The world very nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days (www.washingtonpost.com)
What is propaganda? (1944) (www.historians.org)
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night? (www.thecollector.com)
Pessimists Archive (pessimistsarchive.org)
Gratitude (sh.itjust.works)
I’ve been learning a ton about the history of the Soviet Union. Often, I need a slow history documentary to fall asleep. But Currently absorbing everything of the Soviets, again for the 3rd time. The saying “but then it got worse”, helps to understand why. I genuinely am not coming at this with any judgement. I love to...