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Battle of France 1940 (From Why We Fight)

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Battle of France 1940 (From Why We Fight)

This animation of the Battle of France is from 1940. Pretty impressive animation for the time I must say…

Source: https://t.co/U7eXPgxsKG
More about the battle: https://t.co/eE6EgdLDvW pic.twitter.com/cwh728MZDy
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) March 16, 2019

The Floating Harbors of D-Day

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Tolkien’s Hand-Drawn map of Middle-Earth

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Tolkien’s Hand-Drawn map of Middle-Earth

LaTex error message

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Hi Jaime, we're happy you enjoy the error messages 🙂 Note that this particular one goes back to Don Knuth — the author of TeX — and his unique sense of humour 🙂 #HappyTeXing #TeXLaTeX Have a great rest of the week!
— Overleaf (@overleaf) October 8, 2020

Daniel Immerwahr on World War II Maps

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Stastny brothers

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

ON THIS DAY in hockey history (October 6, 1982): The Nordiques debut a line featuring the three Stastny brothers, with the oldest Marian joining Peter and Anton after coming over from Czechoslovakia. The line combines for 4 goals/4 assists in a 6-4 win #VintageHockey #NHL pic.twitter.com/psSW6wZwBa
— Vintage Hockey Showcase (@hockey_vintage) October 6, 2020

Map of 1914 over a map of 2019

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Map of 1914 over a map of 2019

Construction workers at the Chrysler Building in NYC, 1929

Posted on 2020/10/13 by Carl Robitaille

Construction workers at the Chrysler Building in NYC, 1929. Just looking at this colorised footage with sound from 1929 is not for the faint of heart 👀 👀 https://t.co/4ihmKVGaw5
— XXI Century City (@urbanthoughts11) October 6, 2020

Vaughan Jones (1952–2020)

Posted on 2020/10/06 by Carl Robitaille

Vaughan Jones (1952–2020)

“In 1990, he became the first New Zealander to be awarded the Fields Medal — for an invention that revolutionized the field of topology, the branch of maths that studies knots and other shapes.”