- Which side of the road do they drive on? This only SOUNDS boring. There's some fantastic material here discussing this going back to Roman times and beyond. The Romans, it seems, drove on the left. Discusses driving and walking habits through the ages.
- History of wedding rings Not sure how accurate this is. Does anybody know?
- World Digital Library swoon From the website: The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world
- Learn to Navigate by the Night Sky
- Looking to learn stuff? Then check out Open Courseware Consortium
- Cornwall Online Census Project Census data going back to 1841. Never be stumped for a Cornish name again.
- VADS: The online resource for visual arts. Ohh, so pretty!
- Pigments Through the Ages How many different kinds of green are there? Lots.
- Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Electronic Texts in the History of Medicine From the website: several popular medical texts from the 15th through 18th centuries. Culpeper's famous reference is here.
- They Fight Crime Oh, go on. Just go look. Then write a novel about it. Srsly. Heh.
- News Map Kind of overwhelming, but take a look.
- British Genealogy.com Because we're Risky Regencies and we're odd that way.
- Calculate Me Confused about Celsius vs. Fahrenheit? Roman numerals make you XX-eyed? What about butter, meters to feet, Time or maybe you need to calculate the area of a circle. CalculateMe can help.
- Phil Factor's Phrenetic Phoughts Don't freak when you see this is a SQL Server site. The article is a very readable discussion of the history of cryptopgraphy. Augusta, Countess of Lovelace is mentioned in the first sentence.
The Link-o-Matic Machine Debuts!
I'm pretty sure I'm still not completely coherent after my return from RWA Nationals so what the heck, here's some links to interesting stuff.
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Nothing pertinent to say, just a bit of an "I met you!" fangirl moment.
You had me at history of cryptography! Thanks for all those links, Carolyn. I have issues with measurement conversions, too, altho' I am too tired now to even delve into the site.
@Azteclady - you crack me up! I am glad we got to meet.
Megan: yeah I'm still tired, too. Yikes!
These are priceless, Carolyn! THANKS!!
Great links, Carolyn! Thanks!!
LOL! Thanks for the time-suckage. Though I think I might be still be too RWA-exhausted for the Calculate... one :)
This looks like lots of fun, but I have spent my day in hospital after passing out on my secretary this morning. I am going to bed and will play tomorrow while I'm convalescing. It will hopefully make the day better and then off to the Tarbell dinner. Time period costumes and food. Yay!
Omigosh, Jane Austen! Take care of yourself.
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