Category: Ships, buildings and garments
Paradise and town-planning
The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.
The secret language of doctors
Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.
A West Cornish Barbary pirate and ghost-ship
“Discontented devil of a blackamoor, why canst thou not be satisfied to live here?” “Avast there; all our gold and diamonds can’t procure us here the bright sunshine and joyous people, nor the rich fruits and wine, of my native clime.”
Viaje a México
Our itinerary, and that of Polo Polo on his Viaje a España.
Star Trek, the origins
Kalebeul’s investigation into Vosk and the Na’kuhl temporal conduit yields some surprising results.
Spanish woman academic dresses according to stereotype
From an off-the-record report of a departmental seminar somewhere in the UK.
Testing redesign
Visit the site with caution for the next few days until I get round to sorting out all the crap.