Forgotten History
What did the Rebel Yell really sound like?
Oddly enough, nothing like Billy Idol 🙂
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/What-Did-the-Rebel-Yell-Sound-Like.html
Forgotten History
Forgotten History
Everything Else
The Thirteen Virtues of Benjamin Franklin
Centuries before the self-help movements began, people already understood the basic need to better themselves. Benjamin Franklin created what we would call a “to-do” list of 13 areas of his life he wanted to improve; he even charted his progress weekly. I think everyone will find at least a few of these familiar. It’s heartening to learn that even the best of us are human — we all struggle against some of the same tendencies as those of our ancestors.
Ben Franklin’s Thirteen Virtues (quoted from Franklin’s autobiography)
Crossing Cultures
Germans and Colors
This post via BoingBoing has everything I could want in one article — a discussion of linguistic and cultural differences between German and English, a sprinkling of medieval history, and beer:
Digital Medievalism
Hildegard von Bingen: Sybil, Saint, and Scientist
This post is written in honor of Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the achievements of women in science and technology.
Hildegard von Bingen (born 1098 – died 1179) is probably best known as a medieval religious visionary, literary author, and composer. But she was a woman of many more talents, including natural philosophy and medicine. Read more “Hildegard von Bingen: Sybil, Saint, and Scientist”