Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
What to Call Your Distant Relative
"For Merchants and Mariners: The Business of Nautical Manuals," focused on the 16th and 17th centuries, which saw an explosion of printed manuals dedicated to the science of navigation. The Seltzer Lecture for 2020 is available on the Fisher LibraryYouTube channel,
How scribes of the ancient world were the pollsters of their day Not a parallel I find convincing.
Amazing Amazon — NYTimes: Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its workforce to more than 1.2 million people globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of Dallas the National Capital Region.
Five film ‘failures’ you should give a second chance
John Taylor RIP
Carleton University professor emeritus John H. Taylor, distinguished urban historian and author of the landmark 1986 publication Ottawa: An Illustrated History, has passed away at age 81. The book was described in the HSO Newsletter as "one of the most impressive studies of the capital’s post-1800 past — not only a stunning visual record of Ottawa’s history, but also a meticulously researched and elegantly crafted narrative of the evolution of a world-class metropolis. He was the partner of BIFHSGO member and former director Ruth Kirk.
Thanks to this week's contributors: Anonymous, Christine Jackson, Mike More, Unknown
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