Dec 23 2008
Archive for the 'germany' Category
Dec 10 2008
Another historical note from 1857:
Another bit of Rittenhousia, about the beginnings of paper-making in America, circa 1688 - this is from the Historical Magazine, 1857. Again, for the record.
Dec 07 2008
Start of Christmas Memories:
I’ll sit down and go over the Presidents Thang in a day or so. Right now, I’m busy fishing the big Digital Organization, to be followed up with more organizing tricks tomorrow. So I’m Really Busy As Heck with that stuff.
Meredith had a good deal from Sinterklaas, with lots of pepernoten / kruidnootjes and [...]
Aug 21 2008
Well, there’s a family cave - er, tree:
BBC article about a cave full of skeletons from the Bronze Age in Germany, and how they matched the DNA to a couple of locals…3000 years down the line.
Aug 14 2008
Another WSJ item, this time an editorial:
Bush and Georgia
U.S. credibility is again on the line as the Bush Administration stumbles to respond to the Russian invasion of Georgia. So far the Administration has been missing in action, to put it mildly. The strategic objective is twofold: to prevent Moscow from going further to topple Georgia’s democratic government in the coming days, [...]
Jul 24 2008
I know which one’s scarier:
After the last week of major screwups from McCain, including the whole “surge is when I say it is, ignore history business”, and things like accusing Obama of being responsible for the rise in gas prices and willing to ‘lose the Iraq war deliberately in order to win the 2008 election’, it looks as if [...]
Jun 12 2008
Iron Sky:
Movie tagline: In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back.
AH on Nazis on the Moon, etc. The trailer looks spiffy! (youtube)
Jun 08 2008
AH on the Mongols:
From my recent read on Brian Fagan’s THE GREAT WARMING:
Batu, a grandson of Ginghis [Khan], soon conquered the Crimea, then ravaged what is now Bulgaria as well as fourteen Russian cities, turning their shattered remnants into vassal states. Next he turned his atention to Europe, with the objective of reaching “the ultimate sea.” The Mongols [...]
May 02 2008
Last Stauffenberg co-plotter dies:
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, has died. He was 90. The German military said in a statement Friday that the former army major died Thursday night. It did not give [...]
Apr 08 2008
Gruppenfahrten!
…mit Fucker. Reisen mit 49 sitzplatzen…hey, there are no umlauts on this keyboard! Ratz.
Jan 16 2008
More on the Languages of Europe:
Cripes howdy, but I’m getting a lot of private mail on this one from that earlier post. Let me say that I was in a hurry to post, but that I had my own set of problems with all of those maps.
Here’s some new maps that have been pointed out to me:
This is an odd [...]
Jan 14 2008
Presents to the mapping fiends:
Museum exhibits:
Historical maps from Dutch cartographers
Mapping Arabia (from Aramco)
Historical maps of Macau (Library of Congress)
The David Rumsey collection (worldwide historical maps)
The Social Explorer (US Census maps 1940-2000)
Chinese Maps:
Shanghai, 1928
More pre-PRC China maps (heavy on Shanghai)
GIS: Chinese Historical GIS
GIS: Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (a little arcane for me, but maybe you can dig it)
German [...]
Jan 13 2008
Odd islands:
As some of you will note, Mr. Trivia and Mr. Map Enthusiast here likes to squirrel and roll around in all sorts of odd bits about odd bits of territory. Here’s a few recent adds:
The Frisian Islands, all of which seem to have hung on to their own gumbly dialects - such as [...]
Dec 13 2004
Living in Berlin - for the ultimate expatriate
“He brought his wife, an illustrator, to a show in Berlin in 2003 and the couple decided to move here. Sometimes, he says, it’s hard to believe that a guy from Rock Hill, S.C., who has been known to work under the name Donna Summer, wakes up in Berlin in a bed from IKEA.
“I think [...]
