The events that had excited the world were unknown here. The Lykovs did not know any famous names and had heard only vaguely about the past war. When in recalling the “first world war” with Karp Osipovich the geologists engaged him in conversation about the last one, he shook his head: “What is this, a second time, and always the Germans. A curse on Peter. He flirted with them. That is so.”

• The Horizontal Falls of Australia
• A lost Chinese silent film where Charlie Chaplin visits Shanghai
• “The Accident”
• Project Offices

When Subject 1’s cup of unadulterated was half empty, he grabbed his water bottle and poured the remainder into his clear glass coffee cup. He looks at it and then puts his hand up because He Needs An Adult. He said with concern, “I added water but it didn’t change color.” We all wandered over to peek into the dark heart of his mug. Even diluted to 50% of the original strength, it is still as black, oily, and potentially lethal as a tar pit.

• The Confederates of Brazil
• The Marshallese of Arkansas
• The Māori of London
• The Manichæans of China, still around long after their religion stopped being a major player on the world stage
• The Cagots of France and Spain, a group who were persecuted for reasons nobody really knows and then assimilated into wider society

• And on a similar note, here’s some sounds of the forest(s)

• A simple linear slide rule emulator
• And a THREE DEE!!! recreation of the mechanical Curta calculator