• Picture of the Week #99

    Updated: 2010-11-25 01:28:45
    Side of Hever Castle. Photo May 1998.

  • Tudor Portraits in the US

    Updated: 2010-11-17 05:28:36
    Hope Walker dropped me a line about some new work she’s been adding to her site HansEworth.com, including work on a list of Tudor portraits in the US. If you have any additions or corrections, you can contact her though that page. I wish there were some here in Texas!

  • Picture of the Week #97

    Updated: 2010-11-11 22:06:55
    Garderobe in the White Tower of the Tower of London. Photo May 2003. Yep, it’s a Tower Toilet. A London Loo. A White Tower Water Closet. A …. okay, I’ll stop now.

  • Order Food in Many Languages!

    Updated: 2010-11-09 19:29:44
      Google Translate Speaks!  Type in text — not too much though — and, in many languages, it will speak.  It always types, even in characters and different alphabets.  Try it at: http://translate.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wT#en|pl| What can you achieve with this orality?  It’s not up to conversation yet but it can be used to order dinner.  Although [...]

  • Sunday Short Takes

    Updated: 2010-11-08 03:29:03
    * I meant to post this a few weeks ago – The November issue of BBC History Magazine has a cover article titled The Secret War Against the Tudors about the various plots against Henry VII and Henry VIII * And because I thought it was really interesting – Heavenly illumination: The science and magic [...]

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