Sunday, March 24, 2013
Words from Shakespeare
Mental Floss has a post listing twenty words that were coined by William Shakespeare. Apparently he created "over 2200 never-before-seen words". I was amazed that one of them was the word manager.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Obit: John E. Karlin - Dialing Pioneer
The New York Times has the obituary of John Karlin who was involved in the development of the modern telephone numbering scheme.
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