http://www.metafilter.com/tags/reference+history Posts tagged with 'reference' and 'history' at MetaFilter. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:27:14 -0800 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:27:14 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/84472/Exploring%2DIngenuity%2Din%2DIron <a href="http://alloy-artifacts.com/index.html">Alloy Artifacts</a> an "online resource for 20th century hand tools and the companies that made them". tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84472 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:27:14 -0800 handtools history reference screwdrivers sockets tools wrenches Mitheral http://www.metafilter.com/79765/Patches <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/">The Quilt Index</a> is a growing research and reference tool designed to share access to information and images about quilts provided by <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/collections.php">an array of contributors</a>. You may <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/browse.php">search by category</a> including time period, style and technique, location, or fabric. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.79765 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:19:17 -0800 collections exhibits history quiltindex quilts reference research netbros http://www.metafilter.com/70727/Lets%2Dgo%2DNintendo <a href="http://www.nesguide.com/">Everything</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/tags/nes">you need</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3r2XDceM6A">to know</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo">about</a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/cybjorg/sets/72157594337816996/">playing</a> <a href="http://nintendo8.com/toplist/more/">Nintendo</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70727 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:56:22 -0800 gameplay games gaming history nes nintendo nostalgia reference retro vintage dhammond http://www.metafilter.com/69118/History%2Dwrit%2DGangsta <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html">The 5 Most Badass U.S. Presidents of All-Time.</a> Just in time for <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidentsday/">Presidents' Day</a> weekend. In ascending order of badassitude: <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html" title="Andrew Jackson was the first president on whom an assassination attempt was made. A man named Richard Lawrence approached Jackson with two pistols both of which, for some reason, misfired. With the possibility of an assassination taken off the table, Jackson proceeded to beat Lawrence near death with his cane until Jackson's aides pulled him off the assassin.">Andrew Jackson</a>, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p2.html" title="In August of 1943, while serving as skipper of the PT-109, Kennedy's boat was ripped in two by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Kennedy and his crew were tossed into the water and surrounded by flames. Kennedy, despite a chronic back injury and an even more chronic boning-induced-exhaustion, managed to swim four hours to safety while towing an injured crewman by the life jacket strap with his teeth. His fucking teeth!">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p3.html" title="Also, since we're talking about ridiculous things that JQA did that have nothing to do with being president, he kept a pet alligator in the East Wing of the White House. That actually probably came in handy for some of that shrewd negotiating we mentioned earlier.">John Quincy Adams</a>, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p4.html" title="He described being surrounded by bullets and death and concluded by saying 'I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming to the sound of bullets.'">George Washington</a> and your number 1, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p5.html" title="While campaigning for a third term, Roosevelt was shot by a madman and, instead of treating the wound, delivered his campaign speech with the bleeding, undressed bullet hole in his chest.">Theodore Roosevelt</a>. </a> Honorable mention: <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/people.php?id=1234766&lid=1" title="Who put himself through excruciating pain to maintain the charade the he was not paraplegic">FDR </a>, <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/189.html" title="Dropped the big one, huh? - He dropped two big ones on them">Harry S Truman</a> and <a href="http://www.jameskpolk.com/new/" title="Polk passed up a second term because he achieved and took care of everything he wanted to do for the country in his first term">James K. Polk</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69118 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:53:25 -0800 cracked History humor presidents reference trivia psmealey http://www.metafilter.com/59254/Doing%2Dour%2Dhomework%2Don%2Dthe%2DMiddle%2DEast <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/very-basic-suggested-reading-list-on.html">22 basic suggested readings on the Middle East</a> from history professor and informed commenter on Middle Eastern affairs <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/jcpers.htm">Juan Cole</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59254 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:41:44 -0800 bibliography egypt history iran iraq islam israel jordan juancole lebanon middleeast muslim palestine readings reference saudiarabia syria terrorism war LobsterMitten http://www.metafilter.com/45405/Classic%2Dtexts%2Din%2Dpsychology <a href="http://psychclassics.yorku.ca">Classics in the History of Psychology</a> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45405 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:31:41 -0800 books classics history mind psychology reference resource texts Gyan http://www.metafilter.com/45043/Let%2Dyour%2Dcarriage%2Dbe%2Dsuch%2Das%2Dbecomes%2Da%2Dman%2Dgrave "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1248919">George Washington's Rules of Civility</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45043 Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:57:26 -0800 america civility conduct culture georgewashington guide history howto manners reference washington nthdegx http://www.metafilter.com/38924/Tailed%2Dapprentices%2Ddont%2Ddrink%2Dbeer <a href="http://www.owwm.com/Default.asp">Old Wood Working Machines.</a> Covering only North American manufactures, the OWWM website (referred to as the mothership) has 1160 scans of manuals, flyers, catalogs, and sales literature dating back over 100 years. The <a href="http://www.owwm.com/FAQ/FAQ.asp">FAQ</a> is extensive and has exploded spinning off many pertinent <a href="http://www.owwm.com/FAQ/Default.asp">articles</a>. OWWM also has almost 2200 user submitted, <a href="http://www.owwm.com/PhotoIndex/Default.asp">machinery profiles</a> showing machines as found and/or restored. One of the highlights is a write up on what appears to be the very <a href="http://files.owwm.com/PDF/Delta/oww.pdf">first (PDF)</a> <a href="http://www.deltawoodworking.com/ ">Delta</a> <a href="http://www.deltawoodworking.com/index.asp?e=136&p=4657">Unisaw</a> which was built before WWII and aside from mostly cosmetic changes is still built today. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38924 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:44:38 -0800 history reference tools wood woodworking Mitheral http://www.metafilter.com/35628/British%2DHistory <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk">British History Online.</a> British History Online. See <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=59">London in 1682</a>, and more. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35628 Thu, 16 Sep 2004 04:09:46 -0800 britain history reference plep http://www.metafilter.com/24861/University%2Dof%2DCalifornia%2DPress%2DPublic%2DOnly%2DSubject%2DList <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft267nb1f9/" title="Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period represented a decline from the classical era.">Religion in Hellenistic Athens</a><b>, </b><a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/?mode=ucpress;bsubject=%22Architecture%22;nrights=uconly" title="The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or ''Mirror of Human Salvation,'' is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and included reproductions of all 116 woodcuts of the blockbooks, accompanied by a description of the typography and production and an interpretation of each scene. ">A Medieval Mirror</a><b>,</b> <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7h4nb4rx/" title="How does a ''homogeneous'' society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of age, sex, and former caste. ">Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan</a><b>,</b> <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7b69p12h/" title="Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'&#0233;tat, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the encounter between the military superpower and the poorly armed Afghans. The events that followed are carefully detailed, with eyewitness accounts and authoritative documentation that provide an unparalleled view of this historical moment.">Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982 </a><b>, </b><a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5q2nb3w6/" title="This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to illuminate Mexican history through these charged decades and into the 1970s. This fascinating narrative traces the rechanneling of youth energies away from political protest in the wake of the 1968 student movement and into counterculture rebellion, known as La Onda (The Wave). ">Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture </a><b>, </b><a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4w10062x/" title="Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, and the philosopher Adolf Gr&#0252;nbaum.">Freud and His Critics </a> and <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1z09n7g7/" title="One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity.">Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 </a>--all are entire online books from the<a href="http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/subjects_public.html"> public section</a> of the University of California Press.<br><br>I am, like, going so nutso--Jackpot! tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24861 Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:47:16 -0800 books history library reference research resources universityofcalifornia y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/19206/ <a href="http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/pdbrowse.html">Don't say nobody told you.</a> Here is <a href="http://www.archives.gov/index.html">NARA</a>'s <a href="http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html">Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents,</a> showing every <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_presidential_documents&docid=pd12au02_txt-6">comment</a>, every <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_presidential_documents&docid=pd12au02_txt-9">bill signing</a>, every <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2001_presidential_documents&docid=pd17se01_txt-28">communication</a>, <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_presidential_documents&docid=pd15jy02_txt-11">executive order</a>, and <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_presidential_documents&docid=pd12au02_txt-5">interview</a> the president has made:</a> everything that goes into the history books... tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.19206 Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:16:27 -0800 archives genealogy government history library reference research swift http://www.metafilter.com/9734/ <a href="http://members.aol.com/EOCostello/">"The gremlin in Falling Hare (who, let us reiterate, is *not* Wendell Willkie) has an elegant flying helmet/plane tail design and a Benny Rubin-like laugh."</a> The Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion covers the heyday of Merrie Melodies and Loony Toons, with capsule biographies of Warner Brothers animators, explanations for no-longer-obvious cultural references, and brief notes on the characters. No design to speak of, but a wonderful resource for anyone searching for a list of WB cartoons that parody Cab Calloway, arguing about whether Elmer Fudd predates Yosemite Sam, or just wondering what the heck Marvin the Martian's given name was. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.9734 Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:50:07 -0800 animations CartoonCompanion cartoons database encyclopedia history online reference WarnerBros WarnerBrothers WB snarkout