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Up next in the expanding WORDLErama of creating FOUND WORD ART by dumping text blocks into the glorious WORDLE wonder-engine is my page devoted to the chronology of modern particle physics (1895-1995) ...

The history of the power of words is long and complex, and for the most part is on one side or the other of the political and social mirror, at least in the United States. Controlling the meaning of a ...

This aircraft not only moved, but flew: Source: the 1907 Philips flying machine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Frederick_Phillips Offhand it seems to be the ...

Rare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, ...

Three wonderful images of the future, brought to the viewer via the tobacco trading cards interests in the 1920's--a future that could very well have been denied by the user of the product that ...

Here's a very provocative piece of design meant to equate death and communism--and in that there is no question. Sowjet-Rußlands wahres Gesicht, aus eigener Anschauung und Erfahrung geschildert von ...

Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) was an extraordinary mathematical talent—he was also blind (from about the age of one), and invented, principally for his own uses, what I think is the first ...

At first glance this detailed and dense map looks foreboding and somehow off-putting--at least for me, and that was before I understood what the numbers represented. The blue numbers on this section ...

J.W. Conway launched this missive into the world in 1935--at a time when left-handedness was deemed to be unacceptable and curable--adding his anti-left-handed sentiments to a teetering pile of other ...

Nothing quite exceeds like excess said Mr. Wilde (and others) , and he/they could be no more correct when looking at this picture of a Movable Maginot Line—it is a mobile fort, complete with plane ...