We’re pleased to announce the publication of the first of a series of translated letters between Ernst and Lotte Franke — between small town Germany and big town New York — during the Great Depression. It’s a unique and personal…
In celebration of Independence Day here in the United States of America, here’s a great 10-minute narrated animation that reviews how the nation got to where it is today. Read the instructions, click the X, then click Play. Videos…
To mark the 63rd anniversary of the first stored computer program to run (June 21), I rewrote the original code in C# last night, both using the original algorithm (that was never intended to be efficient) and using a more…
Here’s what I believe is an 1897 Krag bayonet with scabbard, probably from the Spanish-American War. It’s marked “1897” on the blade, and “lNY143” on the belt clip on the scabbard. It’s covered in some gunk that I can’t identify.…
This is the 12th and final set from a collection of 185 photographs taken during the 1910-1911 deployment of S.M.S. Gneisenau to the Far East. S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine, or German Imperial Navy. For…
This is the 11th set from a collection of 185 photographs taken during the 1910-1911 deployment of S.M.S. Gneisenau to the Far East. S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine, or German Imperial Navy. For the main…
This is the 10th set from a collection of 185 photographs taken during the 1910-1911 deployment of S.M.S. Gneisenau to the Far East. S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine, or German Imperial Navy. For the main…
This is the 9th set from a collection of 185 photographs taken during the 1910-1911 deployment of S.M.S. Gneisenau to the Far East. S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine, or German Imperial Navy. For the main…
This is the 8th set from a collection of 185 photographs taken during the 1910-1911 deployment of S.M.S. Gneisenau to the Far East. S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine, or German Imperial Navy. For the main…
[ad#History Content Banner] This is the 7th set from a collection of 180 or so photographs taken during the 1910-1911 deployment of S.M.S. Gneisenau to the Far East. S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine, or German…