tags: history

• Why was Roman Concrete So Durable?
  7 January 2023 | comments | news.mit.edu | tags: history, and technology
• How Transportation Technologies Shaped Empires
  7 January 2023 | comments | unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com | tags: history, and knowledge
• What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
  6 January 2023 | comments | levelup-edu.com | tags: history, and programming
• A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1
  5 January 2023 | comments | eejournal.com | tags: hardware, and history
• Archaeology and Genetics Can’T Yet Agree on When Humans Arrived in The Americas
  31 December 2022 | comments | aeon.co | tags: history, and science
• The Chicken First Crossed The Road in Southeast Asia, Landmark Gene Study Finds
  28 June 2020 | comments | sciencemag.org | tags: animal, history, and science
• The Return of The 90s Web
  19 June 2020 | comments | mxb.dev | tags: history, and internet
• 536 was 'The Worst Year to Be Alive' (2018)
  19 June 2020 | comments | sciencemag.org | tags: history
• The Magnetic Amplifier - a Lost Technology of The 1950S
  18 June 2020 | comments | nutsvolts.com | tags: history, and science
• Archaeologists Have Mapped a Roman City Using Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar
  9 June 2020 | comments | archaeology.wiki | tags: history, and technology
• Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science
  6 June 2020 | comments | jurassicparkterror.net | tags: animal, history, and science
• A History Of Clojure
  5 June 2020 | comments | clojure.org | tags: history, and programming
• The Letter "A" is an upside Down Ox Head - It's From an Ancient Egyptian Symbol Of An Ox, and "Leads" The Alphabet.
  28 April 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• An Archaeobotanist Searching Art For Lost Fruit
  20 April 2020 | comments | atlasobscura.com | tags: history, and nature
• Mystery of Two-Million-Year-Old Stone Balls Solved
  19 April 2020 | comments | livescience.com | tags: history
• Fossil Remains of an Extinct Colossus Penguin Was Nearly 7 Feet Tall and Weighed 250 Pounds, Unearthed In Antarctica
  19 April 2020 | comments | mnn.com | tags: animal, and history
• Possible Dinosaur DNA Has Been Found
  18 April 2020 | comments | scientificamerican.com | tags: history, nature, and science
• In 1596, Abraham Ortelius, Recognized as The Creator of The First Modern Atlas, The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Noticed The Shapes of Continents on Opposite Sides of The Atlantic Ocean (Most Notably, Africa and South America) Seem To Fit Together. He Was The First to Theorize The Continental Drift
  14 April 2020 | comments | wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Probable Roman Shipwrecks Unearthed at a Serbian Coal Mine
  9 April 2020 | comments | arstechnica.com | tags: history, and news
• The First "Made In <Country>" Label Was Created In 1887 In England To Discourage Foreign Goods And To Encourage Consumption Of Domestic-Made Goods; This Ultimately Backfired When Britons Bought More Goods Made In Germany Than Domestic Made Ones
  5 April 2020 | comments | dw.com | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• The Highest Paid Athlete of All Time Was a Roman Charioteer. If He Had Lived Today He Would Have Been Worth 15 Billion USD
  4 April 2020 | comments | thevintagenews.com | tags: history, sport, and today-i-learned
• A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past
  3 April 2020 | comments | outsideonline.com | tags: history, and science
• The Origin Story Of The N95 Mask
  30 March 2020 | comments | fastcompany.com | tags: history
• "Genghis Khan" Was Just A Title Meaning "Ruler Of All", His Given Name Was Temüjin Borjigin
  29 March 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• 5,000-Year-Old Sword Is Discovered By an Archaeology Student At a Venetian Monastery
  26 March 2020 | comments | edition.cnn.com | tags: history, and news
• Hunting Dinosaurs in Central Africa
  25 March 2020 | comments | contingentmagazine.org | tags: history, and science
• The Pyramids Are So Well Built That When A Sultan's Workers Tried To Destroy A Small Pyramid 3000 Years After Its Construction, They Could Only Move 1-2 Stones A Day And Gave Up After Creating Only A Gash After Eight Months
  24 March 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Why The EAX Register of x86 is Called EAX
  23 March 2020 | comments | keleshev.com | tags: history, and programming
• Magnolia Plants Are So Ancient That They're Pollinated By Beetles Because They Existed Prior To Bees Appearing
  21 March 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: environment, history, and today-i-learned
• In 36 BCE, Roman Statesman Marcus Varro Wrote About Germs, Describing Minute Creatures Which Cannot Be Seen By The Eyes, Which Enter The Body Through The Mouth And Nose And There Cause Serious Diseases. The Germ Theory Of Disease Would Not Be Accepted Widely For Another 1,900 Years
  19 March 2020 | comments | rcpe.ac.uk | tags: health, history, science, and today-i-learned
• Free Virtual Tours Of 2,500 Museums Around The World
  19 March 2020 | comments | artsandculture.google.com | tags: history, technology, and virtual-reality
• 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths
  19 March 2020 | comments | smithsonianmag.com | tags: environment, history, and science
• The Evolution Of Version Control System (VCS) Internals
  16 March 2020 | comments | initialcommit.io | tags: git, and history
• 35 Years Ago Today: The First Domain Name Symbolics.Com was Registered
  16 March 2020 | comments | dofo.com | tags: domain, history, internet, and today-i-learned
• The History of WD-40
  10 March 2020 | comments | jalopnik.com | tags: history
• The History of the URL
  6 March 2020 | comments | blog.cloudflare.com | tags: browser, history, and internet
• Despite Being 23 Kg (50 Lbs), Medieval Knight Armor is Actually Not as Stiff as Often Portrayed and Quite Flexible. A Knight Would Be Able To Run Full Speed In It, Fight With The Dexterity of a Common Soldier and Even Perform Acrobatics
  1 March 2020 | comments | youtube.com | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• What People In Tech Had To Say About Javascript When It Debuted In 1995
  25 February 2020 | comments | medium.com | tags: dev, history, and javascript
• Queen Elizabeth has Met 12 US Presidents During Her Reign. Which is Over a Quarter of All Presidents Since The United States' Inception
  23 February 2020 | comments | businessinsider.com | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• 7000 Year Old Well is The Oldest Wooden Structure Ever Discovered
  19 February 2020 | comments | ctvnews.ca | tags: environment, and history
• James Chadwick (Discovered The Neutron) was a Student of Rutherford (Discovered The Proton) who was a Student of Thomson (Discovered The Electron)
  18 February 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• The First Movie About The Titanic Came Out 29 Days After The Actual Ship Sank, Starred a Real Life Survivor Who Wore What She Had on The Night it Sank in The Production, and Resulted in Her Suffering a Mental Breakdown Shortly After its Completion
  14 February 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned