tags: history

• How I Discovered a 40-Million-Year-Old Whale in Kitchen Limestone
  14 February 2020 | comments | gizmodo.com | tags: history, and news
• During WW1, a Canadian Soldier Brought His Pet Bear to Britain. He Named The Bear Winnie After His Home Town Winnipeg and Later Donated The Bear to The London Zoo Where a Boy Named Christopher Robin Liked it So Much it Inspired His Father to Write About it, Thus Winnie The Pooh
  13 February 2020 | comments | s.telegraph.co.uk | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Pluto was Named By 11-Year-Old Venetia Burney. After Her Grandfather Read About The Discovery, Venetia, who Enjoyed Mythology, Said The Planet was in a Region Similar to The Dark, Remote Underworld Ruled By The Roman God Pluto. Her Grandfather Then Contacted Astronomers Suggesting The Name
  11 February 2020 | comments | astronomy.com | tags: history, science, and today-i-learned
• Why Google Did Android
  10 February 2020 | comments | tbray.org | tags: android, google, and history
• Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the Base Time for OpenVMS?
  7 January 2020 | comments | slac.stanford.edu | tags: history, and knowledge