Pope Honorius III died OTD in 1227 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/avignon/corrupt-popes.html?s=mb #travel #history
Pope Honorius III died OTD in 1227 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/avignon/corrupt-popes.html?s=mb #travel #history
This is a weblog post I wrote over a decade ago about the last time I tried to do this:
https://superhighwayman.com/2012/primary-source-not-found/
It gets there in the second half :D
The sad thing about reading that, which I wrote in 2012, is that so many of the Primary Sources I can think of for a lot of this stuff are dead now; so it's still all being lost every day. I have done some interviews, so as I discovered a few weeks ago, some of that is preserved on Wikipedia (someone had posted a photo/article I had no idea existed) - But I have a Wiki page and deliberately force myself to do some interviews these days - most people don't.
This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history.
I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD (AND the MIST) on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991.
Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I diligently backed everything up so I could potentially recover it one day, but as far as I can see, all the DECSystem-10's went to the great scrapyard in the sky, my backups were mostly stolen when my first museum was stolen, and I had huge issues recovering the Essex BCPL compiler to compile what I had left when I finally got a decent TOPS-10 emulator running on a VAX for Bletchley Park.
One good thing about being an unemployable whistleblower is free time, so I finally hunkered down to some 90 hour weeks and built a software replica of the Essex system I think reflects it well. It's running on a KS10 not a KL10 but I had to let some things slip.
I put the latest known versions of MUD and MIST on it, and miraculously found ROCK too.
So, to meander to the point, if you want to see and relive exactly what online multi user gaming was like from 1978 to 1991, you can go to https://dec10.uknet.net and login as guest, then follow the terse instructions from there.
In those days, you were generally faced with a "." prompt and left mostly alone, so for authenticity, I will leave it at that.
I should note that this is a museum peice, without a community they are still wildly popular games with a huge community in snapshot-form at the moment. But I will leave them up and running to see. I wasn't going to, but Richard seemed happy to have MUD running, and former MIST players wanted it back, so...
Pop this a share if you know folks who might be interested.
#history #digital #retrogaming #retrocomputing #games #mud #muds #computers #emulation #emulators #vms #tops10 #museum #history #bletchleypark #simh
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Did the British unleash biological warfare against Washington’s troops?
"Historians trace role of physicians, medicine, disease during war in articles marking 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence"
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Did the British unleash biological warfare against Washington’s troops?
"Historians trace role of physicians, medicine, disease during war in articles marking 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence"
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates
Silver prize cup awarded to Wilhelm Greiffenhagen in March 1877
Silver cup presented as a prize to the winner, Wilhelm Greiffenhagen. Slender stemmed goblet shape, decorated with engraved fruiting grapevines and fe…
Silver
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/73869
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
"TATTERSALLS". COLLINS ST. HOBART.
A postcard featuring a black and white photograph of three men and a horse standing outside a building. Handwritten text on the front of the postcard …
Ink, Paper
Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/210812
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
6 min
Chuck describes the rise of Black Wall Street , despite lacking orthodox factors leading to economic success.
One of the reasons for success is money circulated in the community. When you hear me grouse about large corporations, bleeding communities by exporting money, this is why. Corporate operation in a community is no different what happens to developing countries by global trade
"TATTERSALLS". COLLINS ST. HOBART.
A postcard featuring a black and white photograph of three men and a horse standing outside a building. Handwritten text on the front of the postcard …
Ink, Paper
Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/210812
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
Today for St. Patrick's day I wanted to share some research which explores the Coptic Christian connection in Egypt to early Celtic Christianity. I think it is important to remember that nothing developed alone and just how connected the medieval world was
I'm also including a link to this wonderful lecture which explores the connection between Celtic and Coptic monastics:
Today for St. Patrick's day I wanted to share some research which explores the Coptic Christian connection in Egypt to early Celtic Christianity. I think it is important to remember that nothing developed alone and just how connected the medieval world was
I'm also including a link to this wonderful lecture which explores the connection between Celtic and Coptic monastics:
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Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Conductor: André Cluytens
Recorded: 10 May 1964
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Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Conductor: André Cluytens
Recorded: 10 May 1964
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Wagner - Die Walküre
Hotter
Varnay
Windgassen
Neidlinger
...
Bayreuth 1953
Clemens Krauss
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Wagner - Die Walküre
Hotter
Varnay
Windgassen
Neidlinger
...
Bayreuth 1953
Clemens Krauss
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Giacomo Puccini "Suor Angelica"
Teatro di San Carlo
25th April 1958, Naples
Suor Angelica: Leyla Gencer
La Zia Principessa: Neda Monte
La Badessa: Maja Sunara
La Zelatrice: Jole de Maria
La Maestra delle novizie: Vera Magrini
Suor Genovieffa: Nunzia Mosca
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
Conductor...........Tullio Serafin
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Giacomo Puccini "Suor Angelica"
Teatro di San Carlo
25th April 1958, Naples
Suor Angelica: Leyla Gencer
La Zia Principessa: Neda Monte
La Badessa: Maja Sunara
La Zelatrice: Jole de Maria
La Maestra delle novizie: Vera Magrini
Suor Genovieffa: Nunzia Mosca
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
Conductor...........Tullio Serafin
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Opernabend
17. März 2026, 20:00 Uhr
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Genoveva
Hidulfus: Rodney Gilfry
Siegfried: Oliver Widmer
Genoveva: Ruth Ziesak
Golo: Deon van der Walt
Margaretha: Marjana Lipovšek
Drago: Thomas Quasthoff
Arnold Schönber Chor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Leitung: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Diese Aufnahme entstand im Jahr 1996
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Opernabend
17. März 2026, 20:00 Uhr
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Genoveva
Hidulfus: Rodney Gilfry
Siegfried: Oliver Widmer
Genoveva: Ruth Ziesak
Golo: Deon van der Walt
Margaretha: Marjana Lipovšek
Drago: Thomas Quasthoff
Arnold Schönber Chor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Leitung: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Diese Aufnahme entstand im Jahr 1996