Tag: history

Evolution of marriage advice

this is interesting, from a better angels of our nature perspective. things do get better eventually.

The early ‘Can This Marriage Be Saved?’ columns have an unpleasant chiding tone. Popenoe, along with his organisation’s marriage counsellors, thought of female clients as unrealistic babies: immature, and expecting too much glitz from their marriages. There was a strong element of intergenerational critique in their counsel – a sense that young women were seduced by popular culture, and hopelessly unable to ‘keep house’ and make sacrifices. ‘Don’t expect too much romance’.

Medieval architecture mistakes

Ok even I know arches don’t look like that. Just a bit of settlement abbot, nothing to worry about. I don’t know why we even bother sometimes

World War I in Photos

actual journalism. well done, Alan Taylor!

100 years ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16M people, dramatically redrew the maps of Europe, and set the stage for the 20th Century.

Medieval gifs

some medieval gifs rediscovered.

Accounting grandeur

Accounting in the modern sense was still a new idea in the 1500s, one with a weight that carried beyond the business world. A proper accounting invoked the idea of debts paid, the obligation of nightly personal reckonings, and even calling to account the wealthy and powerful through audits.

Vermeer paintings

Vermeer’s paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs. guy spends a year building a replica of a room, then painting it with a special mirror device to achieve the photographic effects vermeer is famous for. crazy.

2 ka of Londinium

Bomb Shelter Under Flushing Meadow Park?

The 1964 World’s Fair at Flushing Meadow Park in Queens had no shortage of strange and memorable exhibits, which included Sinclair Oil Corporations’ Dinoland, a proposed jet-pack, and even a bizarre Protestant film that posed humanity as a circus and Jesus Christ as a clown. It’s strange then that more attention has not been given to Jay Swayze’s equally odd underground luxury home. This especially due to the fact that it may still be hidden somewhere beneath Flushing Meadow Park, which is why historian Lori Walters from the University of Central Florida has just applied for permits from the Parks Department to locate the structure using ground-penetrating radar.

Imperial History of the Middle East

this is really well done. i hadn’t known about how large the persian empire was relative to earlier ones like the hittites, for example.

JS History

js is always good for some laughs

This science fiction / comedy / absurdist / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035.