Archive for the ‘History’ Category
WE LIVE IN SINGAPURA the MTV version
Posted by: gimster on: May 11, 2007
Update (May 15, 2007)
The Shockwave version of the same video is clearer and has the options to turn on the animator’s commentary (supertitles) and turn off the subtitles. View it on the animator’s page here. Or download it here.
Bought new book
Posted by: gimster on: March 1, 2007
From Borders the bookstore, Larry Gonick’s The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Volume 1. A sample page:
Reviews:
Gonick Does the Modern World
Laughing All the Way
Education factoid: The launch of Sputnik (1957) and maths teaching in America
Posted by: gimster on: April 17, 2006
'The Sputnik crisis spurred a whole chain of knee jerk reactions in the USA. Among these [was] an overhaul of maths teaching'.
- Alex MacGillivray, A Brief History of Globalization.
From the book I'm reading at the moment, which I highly recommend.
For more on the link between Sputnik and maths education, see:
USATODAY.com – Space race cited in [...]
Is Singapore socialist, capitalist or something else?
Posted by: gimster on: April 13, 2006
Found this post by way of one of Mr Miyagi's posts. Wish I had watched the documentary mentioned in the post, but it does pose some interesting questions about the ideas underlying how Singapore is run. The author of the blog, Andy Logan-Tam, also suggests links between the dualistic nature of our government in having [...]
Human historical periods
Posted by: gimster on: March 10, 2006
Once again, from good old Wikipedia
Prehistoric
Prehistoric Europe
Stone Age
Copper Age
Antiquity
Iron Age
(Ancient Greece, c:a 1000 BC-, see Timeline of Ancient Greece)
Pax Romana (Roman Empire, 96 – 180)
Period of the Three Kingdoms (China, 220 – 280)
Middle Ages (Europe, 5th century – 15th century)
Viking Age (Scandinavia, Europe, 793 – 1066)
Nara period (Japan, 709 – 795)
Period of Five Dynasties and [...]
Morbid: Death tolls
Posted by: gimster on: March 10, 2006
Extracted from Wikipedia
The Top 10 for each subcategory of deaths caused by humans
War and military action
These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, and atrocities as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.
62,000,000 – World War II (1937–1945), (see World War II casualties)
36,000,000 – An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)
30,000,000–60,000,000 – Mongol Conquests (13th century)
25,000,000 – [...]
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