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subseacables.blogspot.com
Tech
The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network
A history of the Victorian undersea telegraph cables that tied the British Empire together, and why their routing was de…
The Captive Reader
A book blog reviewing twentieth-century middlebrow fiction, domestic Victorian novels, collected letters, gossipy diarie…
The Chinese Wheelbarrow
A Low-tech Magazine article on how the Chinese wheelbarrow carried huge loads efficiently, and why it deserves a place i…
The Circle of the Dragon
A long-running encyclopedia of dragon and serpent lore that explores the history, mystery, science, and theory behind th…
The Crete Fleet
An online encyclopedia of the concrete ships built in World War I and World War II and of the Mulberry Harbours, with a…
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Education
The distractions of social media, 1673 style
Historian Tom Standage shows how 17th century English coffeehouses were accused of wasting time and ruining productivity…
The Driver Is Red
An award-winning animated short documentary about the hunt for Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, told through evocative anima…
The Fallen of World War II
An interactive data-driven documentary by Neil Halloran that visualizes the human cost of World War II, then tracks the…
The First Men on the Moon
Relive the Apollo 11 landing minute by minute, with synced audio from Houston, the Lunar Module and the Command Module a…
The Forgotten War on Beepers
A look back at the moral panic over pagers in the 1980s and 90s, when parents, schools and lawmakers tried to ban beeper…
The Great Ocean Liners
An archive dedicated to classic transatlantic ocean liners, with deck plans, photographs, and histories of ships like th…
The Hart Island Project
An online memorial for the 83,444 people buried in mass graves on New York's Hart Island, with a Traveling Cloud Museum…
The Historian
A collaborative blog from Queen Mary University of London's School of History, sharing cutting-edge historical research…
The Historical Cooking Project
A project showcasing new scholarship on the study of food through history, with historical recipes reviewed and revisite…
The History Blog
A daily blog by an independent historian summarizing new archaeological discoveries, restored artifacts, and unusual his…
The History Chicks
A long-running podcast about women in history, from queens and scientists to outlaws, with each episode digging into one…
The History Cooperative
An independent history website with in-depth articles on ancient civilizations, mythology, and world wars written by aca…
The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
A visual walkthrough of every Microsoft Flight Simulator release since 1982, with screenshots showing how graphics and f…
The Last Worm
An interactive visualization of Guinea worm eradication, charting how cases fell from 3.5 million in 1986 to just 10 in…
The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
The story of a sneaky two-line change slipped into the Linux kernel source in 2003, how it was caught, and what it says…
The Long Run
The blog of the Economic History Society, publishing accessible articles that bring research in economic and social hist…
The Lost Art of Lacing Cable
A look at the vanished craft of hand-lacing cable bundles in old broadcast studios, from an abandoned NBC room to why th…
The man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
The story of Dr. Jack ReVelle, who disarmed two hydrogen bombs that fell near Goldsboro in 1961, and of the remarkable l…
The Manhoff Archive
A long-hidden collection of color photographs from Stalin's Soviet Union, taken by an American diplomat's family, brings…
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