...me. (And John Holman's father, also named John, had a brother named James -- Jacob?) I'm going to stop there before my brain melts! After that it was back to Truro, via Tremayne, Praze and Camborne. I wish I'd been a bit better prepared -- if I had been, perhaps I would have known about the former Methodist chapel in Praze, or found the address of the Holmans (if not my Holmans) in Tremayne from the 1841 census. But it was still very evocative to...
...It's partly why I start in 1908, too. It's a good question about the stats -- in fact I think I'll work it deserves a post of its own. The short answer, though, is that the ratio of casualties per ton decreased between WWI and WWII, and the V-weapons had higher ratios than bombs. Bob: Would love to publish a book from it ... once it's submitted, I'll start looking for a publisher. CK: Sorry, I doubt any of the V-Force will make it in! Ricardo: Yes...
...a long margin. It is longer, better produced, and makes more use of colour --although the difference was not as great as I expected. It also has the most illiterate office staff, although this might be a stylistic or even a processual outcome. (For example, if the page layout was determined before the articles were selected, the copy editors would have had to write article titles to exact page length.) Technically speaking, the issues of _Aviation...
...Cairns Bowling Club which runs constantly, to the annoyance of neighbours -- who presumably would be used to it, then).11 But the main theory offered in the press was smugglers: […] Miscelánea de aviones misteriosos australianos, 1903-1940 | Marcianitos Verdes […] Además, “funcionarios de la Fuerza Aérea” informaron que “no hay aviones del Gobierno en la localidad [de Cairns] en este momento”.10 Entonces, ¿cuál fue la explicación? Algunos escrito...
...culture, which explicitly and implicitly made claims about the present and -- even more so -- future ability of technology to change the world, for better or for worse. In this talk I will sketch out an emotional history of aerial theatre, focusing on how it helped to construct popular ideas about modernity, primarily in Britain and Australia. [tweet id="1265825214488707074" conversation=false] [tweet id="1265825220520144897" conversation=false] [...
...that LaTeX is available for Windows, OS X and your various Unices and Unix-work-alikes. (For more comparisons, see here (with pictures!) and here.) OK, but just what is LaTeX? It's actually not strictly comparable to Word, because it's not a word processor: it's essentially a markup language, like HTML. So for example, in HTML the first sentence in this paragraph would be written like this: OK, but just what <b>is</b> LaTeX? In LaTeX, the equival...
...I'd probably rather use aeroplane :) As for the Great War (on this I waver -- sometimes using it instead of First World War it seems over the top, so to speak) term for the German air force, I'm not sure what the prevalent term was there. I don't I've ever seen an English language publication use Luftstreitkräfte, for a start! It was definitely referred to on occasion as the German Flying Corps, see e.g. here (P-B alert) or here. Probably understa...
...ock could provide protection. And most terrible of all would be the threat -- even if it were no more than that -- of X-ray mutation. This might well daunt a race which would fight to the death against ordinary weapons.4 Armies, navies and air forces would still have their uses -- atomic-tipped rockets wouldn't have been much use in Burma, for example; and at sea, the 'mobile rocket launcher, almost certainly a submersible' has great potential3 --...
...y successful movie (as well as a once-highly successful video rental chain -- remember those?). It has even been claimed that this is the original sense of the word: supposedly, in the 1920s a blockbuster was 'a movie whose long line of customers could not be contained on a single city block'. But with Google Books and online newspaper archives it's easy to disprove this etymology: blockbuster does not appear before 1942 and then it referred to a...
...anzoesischen Manoever den Zweck, die Bedeutung des strategischen Ueberfalls--auch Blitzkrieg genant--zu pruefen." I also found in the published Nuremberg War Crimes documents an address by General Georg Thomas, head of the War Economy and Armaments Office of OKW during WW II, to members of the German foreign service, in which he used the word blitzkrieg twice (actually, the genitive case form "Blitzkrieges"). In almost every instance--including th...
