Itiner-e is a really nice open dataset and atlas of Roman roads. It’s interesting to look at where the paths of the Roman roads have survived long enough to become the foundations of today’s major routes.
Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Roman Roads
Category: History
Happy Plough Monday!
Happy Plough Monday folks!
York Minster from Lop Lane
Whilst poking around on Getty.edu’s art search site I managed to stumble on this fascinating but sadly poor photograph of what is now the junction between Museum Street, St Leonard’s Place, Duncombe Place, and Blake Street. The photos current location can be seen on the StreetView below.
Continue reading “York Minster from Lop Lane”Inside the Globus INK: A Mechanical Navigation Computer for Soviet Spaceflight
Righto.com has a rather delightful introduction to and teardown of a Globus INK – a Soviet-era mechanical navigation aid for spaceflight.
The FAA/NASA animation of the closing of US Airspace on 9/11
A NASA animation of the FAA’s continental US flight logs from the morning of September 11th, 2001.
24 bloody years…
Netscape Navigator User Demographics circa 1996
So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.
The old MS Mac Lab
York Minster, West Front / James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879)
An old photo of what was, back then, a rather new view.
Continue reading “York Minster, West Front / James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879)”Demons, Exorcisms, and the Scientific Method
This is interesting; Heresy, witchcraft, Jean Gerson, scepticism and the use of placebo controls covers a late 16th Century French attempt to apply a proto-scientific method to demonic possession and, in effect, implement a placebo-controlled trial.
The First Longships Lighthouse at Land’s End, Cornwall
A lovely shot of the first Longships Lighthouse taken in the 1860s by William May. The long exposure fuzz on the ocean is an artefact of the then-available photography process rather than an artistic choice.