#historyUnmoderated tag#historyTrendinghhayweaver memberin Curators Community • 1 day ago • 2 min readTwo Wrongs and a Right #057 — Eagles Friday: Almost Missed the Big Game! 🦅🏈Eagles Friday Bye Week Special! Three bizarre stories about players nearly missing the big game. Only one is true!marjuanm in # windows • 22 hr. ago • 5 min readRemembering Windows AERO / recordando a Windows AEROImage thanks | Muy Computer Hello everyone, welcome to a nostalgic article thanks to its rediscovery by the readers of my blog on Publish0x . I invite you to read my two articles that complement this post: "Remembering Frutiger Aero" and "Remembering Frutiger Metro" . Windows Aero was one of Microsoft's most striking…ultravioletmag modin Curators Community • 3 days ago • 2 min readCopford Church with its Rare Full ZodiacWelcome to St. Michael and All Angels Church in Copford, a historic 12th-century Norman parish church located near Colchester, Essex. The church was built in around 1130 AD using Roman bricks, featuring an original Norman vaulted apse. The church is ranked in Simon Jenkins’ Top 100 of England’s Thousand Best Churches and praised by Nikolaus…hhayweaver memberin Curators Community • 2 days ago • 2 min readTwo Wrongs and a Right #056 — You've Got Mail... INCOMING! 📬🚀💥Cannon, missile, or torpedo? America's craziest mail delivery experiment. Only one really happened!hhayweaver memberin Curators Community • 3 days ago • 2 min readTwo Wrongs and a Right #055 — Strange History! 🌊We're back! History's strangest disasters. Beer, honey, or molasses? Which flood really happened?marjuanm in # mozilla • 51 min. ago • 5 min readDebian vs Mozilla: The Birth of Iceweasel / el nacimiento de IceweaselHello everyone, I bring you another nostalgic article with an interesting story from the world of computing. Debian and Mozilla were involved in a dispute back in 2004-2005 related to the trademarks of Firefox and other products. The conflict began when Debian wanted to modify the browser's logo to match the esthetics of its Linux…horngunnotes in # history • 7 hr. ago • 7 min readWhy the Train Horn Sounds the Way It Does: A Short History of a Loud ChordStand near a grade crossing long enough and you notice that the warning is not a single pitch. It arrives already stacked, several notes speaking at once. Then, as the engine draws even and slides past, the whole stack seems to sag. That sag is the Doppler effect: while the source approaches, wavefronts crowd together and the pitch rises; once it…hhayweaver memberin Curators Community • 5 days ago • 3 min readTwo Wrongs and a Right #054 — Strange History!Strange History! Did a government really go to war with animals? Three unbelievable stories, but only one is true!hhayweaver memberin Curators Community • 6 days ago • 3 min readTwo Wrongs and a Right #053 — Strange Inventions!Strange Inventions Week begins! Three outrageous baby inventions, but only one was real. Can you spot it?
