Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Tupper the tinkerer

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Earl Silas Tupper, an American tinkerer, businessman and inventor, best known for Tupperware, was born 110 years ago today. For a few years ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Signalling with Marconi

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‘Signalling with Marconi and Parallel-Wire systems to Lavernock Point.’ This is George Kemp’s inauspicious diary entry for 13 December 1897,...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Estonian writer’s secret drawer

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Karl Ristikivi, one of the most important Estonian writers of historical novels, died 40 years ago today. He kept a diary for a decade or so...

Diary briefs

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Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad -  Harvard University Press,   The Independent ,  Mail Online Journals of L. M. Montgomery - Rock’s Mi...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Miscegenation and lusotropicalism

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‘Could this odor really be from a burned black man? I don’t know - but this definitely gave me the chills. I never thought that such horror ...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Did cut her owne throte

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John Dee, a mathematician, philosopher, alchemist and original fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was born all of 490 years ago today. He...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Cows in the river

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‘I find many strawberries deep in the grass of the meadow near this Hosmer Spring; then proceed on my way with reddened and fragrant fingers...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Discovering Pitcairn Island

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Pitcairn Island, in the Southern Pacific Ocean, was first discovered by Europeans 250 years ago today thanks to one of a series of circumnav...