I didn’t know that Nehru rescued Mountbatten’s daughter from the crowd when hoisting the flag on Independence Day (1947). Something I learnt when prompting Nano Banana Pro to “Create a sketch note about the night of the Indian Independence on 15 Aug 1947 - keep it funny yet grounded in history.” Once again, I can’t find any spelling mistakes. LinkedIn
Berkeley webcasts of their courses. Google TechTalks. Authors@Google. LongNow seminars about long term thinking. UCTV Video on Demand. Nova. Computer History Museum. Comments Michelle 5 Dec 2006 12:39 pm: Do you have books I can learn From? Top 10 non-fiction books?
Summer of ‘69: a line-by-line history of the song, by its writer Jim Vallance.
10 most puzzling artefacts.
A blogger’s first week at Google. Ovidiu Predescu. via GoogleBlog
Top 10 books of the millenium. Notables: Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Interesting site on uniforms of airline stewardesses. via boing boing
India in the eyes of Al Beruni, an Arabic historian around 1000AD. It is interesting to note the reversal of several customs among Hindus and Muslims. Particularly that “In all consultations and emergencies they [Hindus] take advice of the women.” via Narayana Murthy’s comment
Broad and insightful talk by Diamond on why history unfolded differently across continents. Note that he’s talking about why and not how. Based on his book: Guns, Germs and Steel.
The Guardian on the parallels between the Roman and the American empires.
Free annual reports online.
Surrealism.
What does your name mean? More info about asian names.
The 100 worst ideas of the century. Prohibition tops the list, followed by the decision that led to Y2K, and telemarketing :-)
Archimedes may have anticipated a bit of Cantor’s work on infinity. In mathematical history terms, that’s about as big as the ancient Greeks invented aeroplanes.
The Ancient History Sourcebook contains many ancient books in full-text (English), such as The Odyssey, The Code of Hammurabi, etc. Also included are the Manusmriti and Chanakya’s Arthashastra. Chanakya has also written a lesser known Niti Shastra.
New School’s History of Economic Thought website is an excellent collection of contrasting viewpoints on business and economics.
The next stop was Inverness. I didn’t know Inverness had any history to it. It wasn’t till we got there that I learnt that the Inverness castle was where Macbeth (of Shakespearean fame) ruled from. In fact, it turns out that Macbeth was a really nice king. There was this barbarian who fought him, lost, and turned to the English for help – who of course were delighted, and they killed Macbeth. This barbarian stupidly signed a document saying that Scotland would pay tributes to England, and that’s been the source of all the trouble. ...
Scotland’s wonderful. We left on Friday night at 10:30PM on a ‘coach’, as they call it. A bus, really. We would’ve gone by rail, except that because of the recent flooding, trains weren’t available to Scotland. The coach was far too uncomfortable to sleep, until exhaustion overcame me at around 2AM. We reached Edinburgh at 7AM. (Incidentally, it’s pronounced Edinburough, though if you heard a Scot say it, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s ‘Edinbarra’) ...