Random Learnings #21

From The Encyclopedia Britannica, Thirteenth Edition (1926), Volume 2: Effects of the War Eastern Europe - The War completely changed the face of the Jewish world. In the Russian Empire…

Random Learnings #19

From the June 1951 National Geographic, Occupied Austria, Outpost of Democracy. Ranked as a liberated nation, not a former enemy, Austria has its own Federal Government and exchanges diplomats with…

Random Learnings #17

I occasionally go to the University of Minnesota's Wilson Library to view microfilms of old newspapers. Today, I was reading about Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 and stumbled across…

Random Learnings #15

Spending a Saturday morning drinking tea and perusing the Britannica Book of the Year 1948 - physical not digital - I learned something new about Iran (which isn't saying much,…