This will be our last Ug99-related post, we promise. But before we ended our brief run of bonus material related to “The Red Menace”, we thought we’d shout out one of the potential heroes of this story: the late A.E. Watkins, a British botanist who spent much of the 1930s roaming the globe in search [...]
Entries Tagged as 'England'
Blitzed on Feudalism
February 10th, 2010 · 11 Comments
Living in Europe during the Middle Ages was certainly no picnic, given the abundance of horrid diseases, the precariousness of the food supply, and the constant threat of having one’s arms lopped off by a passing knight. Yet how much agony and anxiety did the denizens of Medieval fiefdoms really experience? Not bloody much, given [...]
Are You Having a Laugh?
December 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The abundance of museums dedicated to the history of anesthesia is really something to behold. While we certainly can’t deny the landmark nature of this medical wonder, we were a bit bowled over to discover so many institutions dedicated to exalting its virtues and warehousing its antique equipment. But therein lies Microkhan gold, particularly the [...]
Tags:drugs·England·Humphry Davy·medical science·nitrous oxide
First Contact: The English and the Inuit
July 1st, 2009 · 10 Comments
Continuing our ongoing First Contact series, today we’re gonna look back at the 1576 encounter between the English and the Inuit of Baffin Island. The details of the meet-up were recorded by one Christopher Hall, a member of a Martin Frobisher-led expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage to China. Upon first landing on [...]
Tags:anthropology·Baffin Island·England·First Contact·history·Iniut·linguistics·Martin Frobisher
