Originality Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, in her The Printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe (Cambridg Continue Reading →
The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life … and in this case death:A UNIVERSITY student died after being hurled 100ft through the air by a medieval-style “trebuchet” catapult, an inquest hea Continue Reading →
German abbreviation question I’ve come across the abbreviation a.O. in a German article and I think it must mean the same thing as a.a.O, ‘am angeführten Orte,’ which is essentia Continue Reading →
