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derspiess

#35475
January 24, 2014, 10:00:06 AM
Quote from: Syt on January 24, 2014, 09:27:32 AM
Thousands of scanned Austrian newspapers, from 1568 through 1943:

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?zoom=33

Here's for example the title pages for the 29th June, 1914, the day after the Sarajevo assassination.

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?datum=19140629&zoom=33

What was the deal with Germans putting periods after everything back in the day-- even if it wasn't a sentence?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Maladict

#35476
January 24, 2014, 10:15:26 AM
Quote from: derspiess on January 24, 2014, 10:00:06 AM
What was the deal with Germans putting periods after everything back in the day-- even if it wasn't a sentence?

:huh: they still do that.

Cool link btw  :cool:

derspiess

#35477
January 24, 2014, 10:17:34 AM
Okay-- seems like it happened a lot more often 100+ years ago.  So anyway why do they do that?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

MadImmortalMan

#35478
January 24, 2014, 02:21:40 PM
GMail is down. In case anyone is wondering.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

garbon

#35479
January 24, 2014, 02:31:28 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 24, 2014, 02:21:40 PM
GMail is down. In case anyone is wondering.

:huh:

I just got an email.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

MadImmortalMan

#35480
January 24, 2014, 02:37:21 PM
Yahoo tweeted it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gmail-is-down-2014-1

I wonder what Yahoo's gmail address is.  :lol:
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Zanza

#35481
January 24, 2014, 03:19:59 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 24, 2014, 09:27:32 AM
Thousands of scanned Austrian newspapers, from 1568 through 1943:

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?zoom=33

Here's for example the title pages for the 29th June, 1914, the day after the Sarajevo assassination.

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?datum=19140629&zoom=33
Another interesting date is around the 12th March 1938 (Anschluss).

Valmy

#35482
January 24, 2014, 06:28:18 PM
Hmmm I checked out 15 July 1789 and not ONE article about the storming of the Bastille.   :(
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Eddie Teach

#35483
January 24, 2014, 07:05:43 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 24, 2014, 06:28:18 PM
Hmmm I checked out 15 July 1789 and not ONE article about the storming of the Bastille.   :(

Hehe, remember Louis XVI's diary entry: "Nothing."
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

#35484
January 24, 2014, 07:27:08 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 24, 2014, 10:00:06 AM
Quote from: Syt on January 24, 2014, 09:27:32 AM
Thousands of scanned Austrian newspapers, from 1568 through 1943:

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?zoom=33

Here's for example the title pages for the 29th June, 1914, the day after the Sarajevo assassination.

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?datum=19140629&zoom=33

What was the deal with Germans putting periods after everything back in the day-- even if it wasn't a sentence?

Don't know about German, but it was a common practice in Latin to put dots between every word.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Zanza

#35485
January 24, 2014, 07:45:08 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 24, 2014, 06:28:18 PM
Hmmm I checked out 15 July 1789 and not ONE article about the storming of the Bastille.   :(
I doubt news could travel in a day from Paris to Vienna in 1789. There was no telegraph yet.

Grey Fox

#35486
January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
My oldest is enjoying her first ride an ambulance as we speak.

She should be ok. She has a blood vessel patch close to the skin in her neck. It bleeds easily when disturbed however this time it didn't stop bleeding after 15 mins.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Capetan Mihali

#35487
January 24, 2014, 09:43:51 PM
Very scary, GF.  :(  I hope she'll be fine once she gets to the hospital. Hang in there.  :hug:

And how old is your oldest these days?  No hemophilia concerns, I hope?
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CountDeMoney

#35488
January 24, 2014, 09:51:04 PM
First ambulance ride can be the coolest thing ever, or the scariest thing ever.



Meanwhile, my sister's youngest is having a friend over for a sleepover.  At 9:10pm, both informed her that it was past their bedtime.  Easiest sleepover ever.

fhdz

#35489
January 24, 2014, 09:53:13 PM
Whatever you do, don't let them give her Coumadin.
and the horse you rode in on
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