Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Jews and Boxing Before the War

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L.P. Hartley had it right, of course: the past is another country. Things really are done differently there. But this is true both of the d...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Camille Flammarion, Mad Scientist, and the expedition into the Hollow Earth.

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Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) was a French astronomer, science popularizer , and author of science fiction . (Wikipedia entry here ). He...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

The atemporality of 21st century urban warfare

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Viewing this morning's front page picture of the world today, one can't help but be struck by the atemporal medievalism of it all, f...
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Another early robot.

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This one from 1909/1910/1911. The article is from the American Examiner sometime in 1911 (should have written down the exact date, but didn...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Victorian Women: Industrial Espionage And You!

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The use of women as spies was certainly common enough in the 19th century. But a lot of the spying was not quite what you'd think. From ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Female Private Eye: One Woman's Story

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A longish account by May Storey, billed in the 1920s as "the female Sherlock Holmes." That's her on the right, on card #42 of ...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Demise of the UFO

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If you remember the guys I found watching UFOs out in Hyde Park, well, they've posted a new video from last week. HardmanChris is right...
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