This obituary of Evelyn de Rothschild, who died on Monday of this week, has an interesting mini-history of the Rothschild family and its banking businesses.
posted by matt in Thursday, November 10, 2022
This is fascinating, both for the history and for the science behind it.
posted by matt in Tuesday, July 26, 2022
The history on display in Boston is incredible. There's so much of it to go around that some of it, while probably noteworthy and interesting on some level, has yet to warrant attention beyond a simple marker with a date and an unremarkable description of an otherwise forgotten event. Take this ordinary house that sits a few blocks down the street from our Airbnb, for example. Apparently it sits on the site of a fort built "by order of General Washington" in 1775. That seems like a historically significant event and location to me. But the marker in the photo is truly the extent of it today. Weirdly, its incorporation into the white picket fence around the front yard doesn't feel strange at all. It feels natural, fits in. It's so...Boston.
photo posted by matt in Saturday, November 6, 2021
"Here we provide evidence that the Vikings were present in Newfoundland in AD 1021."
Science sorting out history. Now the question becomes, how long will it take history to apply the science and teach this to children?
posted by matt in Saturday, October 23, 2021
Howard Johnson's actually has a fascinating history. It was probably the first nationwide chain of restaurants. And those came before the hotels. I had no idea.
tags: history
posted by matt in Thursday, March 25, 2021
Just learned about Sir Ernest Shackleton and the story of his ill-fated Antarctic expedition on the Endurance. Incredible.
tags: historyexplorerleadership
posted by matt in Sunday, November 29, 2020
