One of my all-time favourite historical facts: Cervantes and Shakespeare both died on 23 April 1616, even though Cervantes had died ten days before Shakespeare did.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath, I've found information that says he was a polyglot who wrote primarily in Latin, French and German, but I cannot find any specific info about the other languages he spoke or wrote in.
Helping my daughter with a presentation about Cook, I looked for English sources about his biography and was surprised to read that he was a son of a farmer hand - practically, the bottom of the lower class.
Was it real? I mean, he could be really the son of that rich farmer, and had much bette...
@T.E.D. Shakespeare difficult? Sirrah, I prithee, surely thou dost jest! And yet, did the Bard himself not write that no legacy is so rich as honesty. That being so,you must to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Personally, I quite like calendar issues. It's one of the reasons people pay me money to go and enjoy myself researching in archives. :)
I like good clean simple code. Human calendars based off of the irregular motions of multiple unrelated celestial bodies are flat out evil.
When bad software developers (people who don't comment and use multi-layered templates) go to Hell, the Devil gives them calendar/time code and tells them it is their job to maintain it for eternity.
"So you remembered that years divisible by 100 aren't leap years, but forgot that years divisible by 400 are? Haha! Nothing works today!"
It was initially conceived as just a small library for the use of Congressmen while it was in session. Today it is the largest library in the world, with over 38 million books, and 126 million other items, such as recordings, photos, and maps.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath, I've found information that says he was a polyglot who wrote primarily in Latin, French and German, but I cannot find any specific info about the other languages he spoke or wrote in.
Helping my daughter with a presentation about Cook, I looked for English sources about his biography and was surprised to read that he was a son of a farmer hand - practically, the bottom of the lower class.
Was it real? I mean, he could be really the son of that rich farmer, and had much bette...
