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The Rules of Civility, by George Washington
Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect, to those that are present. When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered. Show nothing to your friend that may…
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EMACS turns 50 | MIT Technology Review
The QNX Operating System - by Bradford Morgan White
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - Wikipedia
someone quoted his name in relation to: https://x.com/amuse/status/1932869384059359387
E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
Cyc – Yuxi on the Wired
How Amazon created the Prime membership program - Vox
Benjamin Thorpe: The Man Who Translated Almost All Old English Texts – Thijs Porck
History of the Italian electrical system
just look at the table of cities and freq/voltage they had!
Expedition Magazine | Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling
The 4,600-year-old woman from Rakhigarhi - The Hindu
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
A Reddit poster finds an ancient jaw in his parents' new travertine. It may be more common than most people imagine.
A Balkanized Federation – Nationhood Lab
As described in American Nations, our true regional fissures can be traced back to the contrasting ideals of the distinct European colonial cultures that first…
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story | WIRED
a profile of the people that co-authored "Attention is all you need" paper that was the turning point in the evolution of LLMs.
Kiwi Hellenist: Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt?
A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon
Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India | India | The Guardian
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks - Wikipedia
India's Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World - Atlas Obscura
How the fall of the Roman empire paved the road to modernity | Aeon Essays
KANNADA : BRIHAT KARNAATAKA : BHAASHIKA, SAAMSKRITIKA - Dr. Chidananda Murthy - Google Books
The Intoxicating History of Gin | The New Yorker
Ancient Persian Culture - Ancient History Encyclopedia
Monuments of Western Chalukyas - Heritage India Magazine
The Internet's Old Guard
The American University and “The German Model” – A Transnational History | Immigration and Education Project
Press Releases | University of Tübingen
Explore Hampi – The glorious city of ruins - Light Travel Action
Gujarat’s medieval cities were once the biggest in the world – as a viral video reminds us
MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot
Kazuhiko Nishi
Bezier Moi | cormullion
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