"Stars fade like memory the instant before dawn. Low in the east, the sun appears golden as an opening eye. That which can be named must exist. That which is named can be written. That which is written shall be remembered. That which is remembered lives."

Ellis, Normandi, trans. Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1988. 43.

Welcome to EarthChronicle.com...

We have a new name!!! EarthChronicle.com

The Website formerly known as Pages of History has changed its name. We have registered our domain name and Pages of History was taken. After testing names for availability and consulting the Webcouncil, we have registered as www.EarthChronicle.com!

If you have a question, hopefully we've answered it! Check our site for answers to all your questions, and if we don't have it, ask us. We honestly think we can answer any of your questions within 24 hours. It won't be as authoritative as the answers posted on our website. We could very possibly be wrong, but we'll do everything we can to get you an answer quickly.

Need an introduction? Check out our Reader's Guide!
Or see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

If your internet search engine gives you 8,000,000 hits, but you can't find what you want to know, what good is it? At EarthChronicle.com, we'll do our best to answer all questions correctly and as quickly as we can via email. Given sufficient time we'll even be able to thoroughly research your question and add a more definitive reply to our website; then everyone will have access to the answer. This is how we grow. Would you like to contribute by helping us answer people's questions?

The first part of our mission is to provide access to public domain information that you can use in whatever way you need to. While we link freely to many different sites, any address that begins...

http://www.geocities.com/chroniclemaster1
http://www.geocities.com/darth333vader
http://www.geocities.com/librariansd

is part of our website. Anything you find here is available free... free of charge and free for use. You can use the text and pictures you find here for whatever purposes you need to put it to. No seeking permissions, no reading complicated legal jargon or website policies. However, if you plan to publish any material, whether for free or sale, we do ask that you acknowledge the originator. We make it SO EASY by providing all references for everything on our site. All you have to do is cut and paste, and you've credited these individuals's hard work. For more information, see our Philosophy page.

The second part of our mission is to provide a home for a growing community that hopes to offer everyone a glimpse into the breadth and depth of history.

What is history?

What isn't history? Politics, conquests, scientific advancment, art & culture, cooking, daily life... anything that has touched people's lives from the Big Bang to this moment as you read, is history. So anything you can see, anything you can do, anything you can know, or anything you can imagine will hopefully find a comfy place here, eventually. Our ultimate goal is to post "everything" online where it will be permanently accessible forever. (See our quote at top from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.)

We call this... job security. ;)

Sadly, until we get better funding, we're fairly limited in what we can do, and how much we can grow. We're currently an all volunteer operation. Though we hope to add staff, volunteers who share their knowledge, time, hard work, and expertise will always be the core of EarthChronicle. Hopefully, we'll be able to parlay these assets into the ambitious program we've set ourselves, but for now this is our website. So if you don't find what you need, email us your question, and we'll try to answer you in 24 hours. If you'd like to contribute financially, you can send contributions to...

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	Curiously Out of Place Stuff

(An excerpt from an article by tech reporter, David Pogue)

Last week, I wrote about my frustration with the way the technology industry comes up with confusing, if not user-hostile, names for new technologies, like EV-DO and RSS. I pointed out that these are exactly the sorts of names NOT to use if you want consumers to feel that your stuff is approachable and friendly…. I had praised the name FireWire as being both clever and descriptive of what it does. In response, I heard from Michael Johas Teener, one of the very engineers who came up with the name in 1993:

"Nice to hear that the name is appreciated. The story behind it is fairly simple: 'FireWire' was chosen by a bunch of engineers drinking too much beer after hours just before Comdex '93, when the project was about to go public. (I.B.M., Apple, TI, WD, Maxtor, Seagate were all showing drives, silicon, and systems.) We were under the gun — the marketing department would have picked some name like 'Performa' if we hadn't acted soon."

"Anyway, the beer-drinking session produced about 100 names, which were posted outside my cube with instructions to passersby to vote early and often. Aside from a few that are not printable, Firewire was the highest-rated. The extra capitalization (from Firewire to FireWire) was the big marketing-based change. There's more irreverent history at www.teener.com/FireWire."

Well, here's to engineers drinking beer, then.

Pogue, David. “Circuits: Awkward Acronyms” New York Times Direct. 30 June 2005. New York Times. E-mail to chroniclemaster1@yahoo.com.

QED.

[chroniclemaster1 2005/7/1]

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1. Institutional: What factors allowed Italy to generate the Renaissance, a movement so culturally advanced, that despite its political fragmentation and its depraved popes, it could bring Europe back into the front echelon of civilizations and poised to become the dominant culture that would colonize the globe?

2. Daily Life: What was housing like in various cultures and at different social conditions? (e.g. Pliny the Younger describes his Roman upper class villa in his letters)

3. Food: Trace the popularity of French high (formal?) cuisine from its origin through the present. Give special attention to its rise as an international fashion.

4. Military: Trace the inter-tribal wars of Genghis Khan prior to the tribes unification in 1206AD and how the Mongol military evolved after it embarked on its international campaigns.

5. Literature: Research Bram Stoker's writings relating to the naming of Dracula. Historical research has consistently failed in its attempts to equate Stoker’s vampire in any meaningful way with the historical Dracula, Vlad Tepes “the Impaler”, the Voivode of Wallachia. Perhaps it's a sick joke that Stoker’s creature of the night which is only stopped by impaling it with a wooden stake, is named after the most infamous impaler in European history.

6. Sports: Why is the most famous and popular sport in the entire world, football, so casually disregarded and pathetically played by the US which musters world class talent in almost every other major sport? What programs (not teams) in the world today are truly world class and what do they do that makes them successful, from organization to techniques?

7. Physics: Many of the newest interpretations of the quantum mechanics of time suggest that time does not exist. What is the mechanism that causes us to think it does? What other interpretations, leave open a window for the existence of time in some form that closely resembles our experience?

8. Industrial: What kinds of studies are performed in modern industrial and commercial enterprises to optimize business performance?

9. Political: Trace the history of campaigning in the US with attention to the divisiveness of contests, especially presidential elections. How are US elections similar to and different from those of other nations? In what ways have polarization ultimately helped and hurt these countries?

10. Historical: Excluding Egypt, the development of Africa is not covered deeply in most textbooks. How did these areas develop? For the sake of a good argument ;), what level of complexity did Africa reach when it’s independent development was interrupted by the Europeans? Primitive? Medieval?