Stop making new mistakes
History teaches us our mistakes. What it doesn’t teach us is how to avoid repeating them. Because we just make new ones. The past, present,...
Tag: history
My now is your now
Humans are entropic; we die the minute we’re born. Our lives are limited by time. But life goes on. It keeps ticking away. NASA discovered...
The word salt ‘was the origin of the world salary’ 💰
“The first of the great Roman roads, the Via Salaria, Salt Road, was built to bring this salt not only to Rome but across the...
Typewriter for music
The Keaton Music typewriter was a typewriter specifically for music. Designed by Robert Keaton in San Francisco, California in 1933, it contained two keyboards, one...
The origin of “OK”
O.K. or “Oll Korrect” was originally a corny joke amongst Boston intellectuals in 1830s Boston who would intentionally misspell abbreviations. The Boston Post printed in...
NASA’s “women computers” 🚀
Katherine Johnson helped launch America’s first orbit around Earth. She also “computed the path” that would eventually get Neil Armstrong to the moon. In 1962’s...
The pigeon camera, a precursor to the drone
Before airplanes, skyscrapers, Google Earth, drones, and GoPros brought us aerial views, there was pigeon camera. In 1907, just a few years after the Wright brothers...
The British Museum adds Mo Salah’s boots to its collection
In preparation for the Champions League final this Saturday, the British Museum has decided to include the football boots of Mo Salah in the Egyptian...
Views of Tokyo (1913-1915)
[bha size=’120×120′ variation=’01’ align=’alignright’]Last week, I blogged about a trip through Golden Gate City: San Francisco (1939). This week’s archival video goes back in time to...
Van Gogh’s fascination with Japan
Japanese art flooded Western Europe when in 1854, America forced Japan to open its borders to trade. Some of the prints of Japanese woodcuts made...
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
Francis Bacon painted ghostly, violent images. Some say he emptied his darkest thoughts on canvass, mostly as a manifestation of his relationship with his sadistic...
Clash of civilizations
America and Western Europe have stagnated while China dives into its newfound riches. Ethnic nationalism is on the rise while the liberal globalist elite does...