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Reichshauptstadt Berlin
olympic promo video
hist  polit  video  aieeeeeee 
august 2010 by pvg
drugoi: Байконур: «Энергия» и «Буран»
abandoned Buran launch complex
hist  rus  astro 
may 2010 by pvg
The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste
Thomas Chippendale's catalog, 1754
pics  hist  doc  art 
march 2010 by pvg
A View of the Monuments of Easter Island, Rapanui
1775 painting of Easter Island statues by William Hodges, second voyage of Captain Cook.
art  hist 
february 2010 by pvg
TDC Restoration Page
Bowels of a WW2 US Sub analog torpedo targeting computer
tech  hist  pics 
february 2010 by pvg
Paul Halsall/Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
hist  doc  kollekt 
january 2010 by pvg
Vintage Ad Browser
Giant collection of vintage ads
ads  hist  design 
january 2010 by pvg
Science, Pseudo-science, and Falsifiability
popper on falsifiability
sci  opine  hist 
october 2009 by pvg
Museum of Soviet arcade machines
lots of details in the Russian section including flash emulators
hist  rus  kultur  tech  sw  net  web  java  from delicious
june 2009 by pvg
Permissive Action Links
Some things that are known or guessed about nuclear warhead safeties
nuke  tech  hw  hist  from delicious
september 2008 by pvg
The Hunt for 928
kooky sounding guy seems to have found an A-12 crash site.
hist  mil  aero 
september 2007 by pvg
Four Decades of Neil Young Covers - Article - Stylus Magazine
Insane obsessive list of Neil Young covers with amusing commentary
music  hist  kollekt 
september 2007 by pvg
North Korean Propaganda Leaflets from 1988
pic  hist 
september 2007 by pvg
A Soviet Poster A Day
soviet (and pre) posters with some informative/inane commentary
hist  pic  rus 
september 2007 by pvg
Animated History Of NYC Subway
cute but somewhat misleading since it doesn't show the parallel growth and rollback of elevated trains
nyc  transit  hist 
september 2007 by pvg
San Jose 1975-2006
photo evidence of San Jose's oppressive boringness over the last 30 years
hist  img 
february 2007 by pvg
Tenter Hook
wtf is a tenterhook?
lang  hist  etym 
february 2007 by pvg
The New York Review of Books: Goodbye to All That?
Profile of Leszek Kolakowski and his works and a great analysis of the history of Marxism (despite slight pretentious outbursts like 'Recall Heine's prophetic observations...')
hist  book 
september 2006 by pvg
Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings
homebrew records made on used X-ray film in 50s soviet union. Wonder if they preceded and were the inspiration for the mass produced floppy plastic records that came with children's magazines like Kolobok.
music  rus  hist 
september 2006 by pvg
the case of millikan
detailed description of the controversy surrounding millikan's oil drop experiment data
sci  pdf  hist 
april 2006 by pvg
VIKING NEW ENGLAND by NATHANIEL NITKIN
1976 article on archeological evidence of Vikings in Maine
hist 
december 2005 by pvg
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM, online old computers museum
contains bunches and bunches of descriptions including stuff like bulgarian apple ][ clones
tech  hist  hw  kollekt 
july 2005 by pvg
Rome didn't fall in a day
daily telegraph review of two interesting sounding books on the fall of the roman empire
hist  book 
july 2005 by pvg
The New York Subway System
not as extensive nycsubway.org but similar info in more digestable quantities
nyc  transit  hist 
june 2005 by pvg
NTSB report AAR77-09 on 1977 fatal accident on panam (now metlife) building rooftop helipad
transit  nyc  hist  pdf 
june 2005 by pvg
Наша Победа. День за днем - проект РИА Новости
history of WWII site by RIA Novosti. Daily posts of Sovinformburo newscasts, lots of original materials, photos, etc.
hist  rus 
april 2005 by pvg
testpilot.ru
history of experimental aircraft of all stripes and countries, bios of russian test pilots
hist  tech  rus 
march 2005 by pvg
The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters | Антиалкогольные плакаты
small gallery of soviet temperance posters
art  hist  rus  kultur  img  poster 
march 2005 by pvg
Москва невоплощенная/Unrealised Moscow
Архитектура Москвы 30-х - начала 50-х годов. Неосуществленные проекты / Unrealised architetural projects, Moscow 30s to 50s
rus  kultur  art  hist 
march 2005 by pvg
Abandoned Stations
locations, history and viewing/access info on abandoned nyc subway stations
nyc  transit  hist 
february 2005 by pvg
The Hats of Borough Park
Sociology Prof investigates and catalogues hat styles of Brooklyn Hasidic Jews
hist  social  jew  nyc 
february 2005 by pvg
Dead or Alive?
Site that tracks whether famous people are still alive or dead and when it happened
ref  hist  social  fun  silly 
february 2005 by pvg
U-Bahn Wien - Subway Vienna
History, maps, etc of vienna subway
transit  hist 
february 2005 by pvg
Russian Utopia
art installation and physical and online archive of never-completed russian architectural projects of the last 300 years
art  rus  hist 
february 2005 by pvg
NYC Subway - 150 Years of Rapid Transit in New York City
Exhaustive obsessive site about history and workings of NYC rapid transit
nyc  hist  transit 
january 2005 by pvg
History of the Hybrid
brief article describing some early hybrid-powered car designs
hist  tech 
november 2004 by pvg
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo, by Sir Edward Creasy
Classic 19th century account
book  hist  mil 
november 2004 by pvg
The meaning of a blog, to blog and blogger in 1944
etym  hist  lang  fun  silly 
november 2004 by pvg
JFK / The Kennedy Assassination Home Page
giant, annotated, referenced anti-conspiracist site
hist 
november 2004 by pvg
United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (European War)
1946 report on the effectiveness of the air war in Europe
hist  mil 
november 2004 by pvg
The Nuclear Weapon Archive - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons
Comprehensive history with imagery on just about all surface tests, exhaustive FAQ, articles.
hist  kollekt  nuke 
november 2004 by pvg
Livius - articles on ancient history
Many excellent long articles on Punic Wars, Alexander, Persia, Rome, archeological finds relating to the Teuteburg forest battle and so on - refs to available evidence and chunky quotes of primary sources
hist  kollekt 
november 2004 by pvg
Greg Goebel's writings in the public domain
Writings on a number of technical topics, _exhaustive_ histories of various aircraft in Air Vectors section
hist  kollekt  tech 
november 2004 by pvg
Essays on Geology, History, and People
Geology Professor Richard Cowen, book-in-progress/course notes
book  geol  hist 
november 2004 by pvg
Boston Globe article on the near-elimination of the Electoral College in 1969
hist  polit 
november 2004 by pvg
No experience necessary - a brief overview of the Nth country experiment on nuclear proliferation
hist  nuke 
november 2004 by pvg
Из истории строительства Московских высоток
history of Stalin's skyscrapers
art  hist  rus  kultur 
november 2004 by pvg
Engineering Professor James B. Calvert's pages about mostly everything
Brief writings on topics ranging from engineering, maths, physics to history and the classics. Ancient greek lesson for reading Euclid in original included
hist  kollekt  lang  maths  phys  sci 
november 2004 by pvg
U.S. Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999
brief history of US sat imagery capabilities
hist  mil  tech 
november 2004 by pvg
United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Pacific War)
1946 report on the effectiveness of the air war in the pacific
hist 
november 2004 by pvg
Yarchive
collection of archived USENET posts on a variety of topics. Henry Spencer's posts in Space are interesting
hist  kollekt  tech 
november 2004 by pvg
On-line books about Macedonia
bulg  etno  hist 
october 2004 by pvg
Links on Proto-Bulgarians, Central Asia, etc.
bulg  hist 
october 2004 by pvg
Иванов В.П., Николаев В.В., Димитриев В.Д. "Чуваши: этническая история и традиционная культура"
bulg  etym  hist 
october 2004 by pvg
why aren't there many varieties of ketchup?
consume  hist 
september 2004 by pvg
San Francisco History Chronology
hist  tl 
september 2004 by pvg
1491 - Charles Mann Article on pre-Columbian america
hist  kultur 
september 2004 by pvg
Transformers: A History
obsessively endless, detailed history of the Transformers (more than meets the eye)
hist  kultur  toys  fun  silly 
september 2004 by pvg
Boyan Collections
giant superhyperlinked reference of russian poetry, collection of a zillion soviet era jokes
hist  kultur  lang 
september 2004 by pvg
Indo-European Language Family Tree
and some other suff, including graphical history of english
hist  lang 
september 2004 by pvg
SovLit.com - Soviet Literature Summarized
Works of Soviet Literature for those unable or too lazy to read them in the original
art  hist  kultur  lit 
august 2004 by pvg
Nazi and East German Propaganda Archive
hist  img  jew 
august 2004 by pvg
MacTutor History of Mathematics
Large collection of maths history stuff including an interesting "famous curves index". Interactive stuff in java (and HyperCard)
hist  maths 
august 2004 by pvg
Annals of Democracy - Counting Votes
1988 New Yorker piece on electronic vote counting equipment and it's problems
hist  polit  social  tech 
august 2004 by pvg
a historical gallery of space suits
astro  hist  tech 
august 2004 by pvg
The Atlantic Online | September 2004 | Inside Al-Qaeda’s Hard Drive | Alan Cullison
essay  hist  polit 
august 2004 by pvg
Great Images in NASA library
astro  hist  pic  tech 
august 2004 by pvg
The Gandhi Nobody Knows
hist 
july 2004 by pvg
СОВЕТСКАЯ ПАТРИОТИЧЕСКАЯ МУЗЫКА
hist  kook  music 
june 2004 by pvg
Don P. Mitchell's Home Page
excellent subsections on the venera project, tesla, other random stuff
astro  hist  sci  tech 
june 2004 by pvg
Cold War History Project Virtual Archive
lots of primary source docs, both sides, some recently declassified
hist  mil 
june 2004 by pvg
Informed Comment
blog of history prof on iraq and middle east stuff. actually interesting and yet a blog!
blog  curaf  hist  iraq 
may 2004 by pvg
Think Again: Al Qaeda
Everythign you know about Al Qaeda is wriong: article from _Foreign Policy_
curaf  hist  news  opine  world 
may 2004 by pvg
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
hist  pic 
february 2004 by pvg
The Eadweard Muybridge Bequest
site about eeearly motion photography pioneer
art  film  hist  neato  pic  sci 
january 2004 by pvg
A network called 'Internet' - 1993 CBC News Clip on 'internet'
hist  net  fun  silly 
january 2004 by pvg
History of the Greek Language and the development of modern Greek
etym  hist  lang 
january 2004 by pvg
National Archives - Powers of Persuasion, Poster Art if WWII
art  hist  pic  polit  poster 
january 2004 by pvg
ACTION COMICS NO. 1
first issue of action comics scanned (1938)
comics  hist 
january 2004 by pvg
Cold War Policies 1945-1991
detailed historical overview of cold war
hist 
january 2004 by pvg
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