Partially for Da, partly for the historians in the audience.  Feel free to whale away on it or suggest other things; I was having real problems with a non-scholarly-to-the-point-0f-boredom book on the German Diaspora, especially to America in the 1800s.   I also skipped a lot of works on regions within Germany.   Yes, I believe that a real ( Read more... )

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In early December on the LJ side, I did a ‘rate the Presidents’ competition to see what my readers thought of the US Presidents.  The raw results and comments are still there  - and these are the results, sorted by Mean (statistical results under the cut; the spreadsheet itself is here).

Sets: One (Washington -> Harrison), Two (Tyler->McKinley), ( Read more... )

Museum exhibits:

• Historical maps from Dutch cartographers
• Mapping Arabia (from Aramco)
• Historical maps of Macau (Library of Congress)
• The David Rumsey collection (worldwide historical maps)
• The Social Explorer (US Census maps 1940-2000)

The augmentation of Liechtenstein and the payoff of the British War Debt to Canada and the USA from WW2. I note that they still haven’t paid up on the WW1 debt, though.  Tsk.