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In Flanders Fields

In 1915, a Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel sat down to write one of the most iconic poems of the First World War. That being In Flanders Fields. …

I have touched on the origins of words before but that was a question and not to correct things that have been going around the …

The National Museum of Computing needs your help. A painting is missing. That’s not that unusual but this one is of the Harwell Dekatron / …

An operator of Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer, came to her wartime workplace to fly a drone in one of the many pop-up events …

Posted May 7, 2015May 6, 2015by Over Lord

A small piece on the BBC News website got me thinking. It was an obituary to Rosie The Riveter. The famous Norman Rockwell painting of …

Posted March 1, 2015March 1, 2015by Over Lord

Sometimes you stumble upon some great stories from the space race. One of my favourites came from the testing of the various systems that became …

This post is something that I rarely do on this blog. Post a whole press release unedited. That’s because it’s a great one about the …

44 years ago a momentous event befell the UK. That a change in the way we paid for things. The biggest change in 2,000 years. …

What was the first words said on the moon and who said them? As you can guess, it wasn’t Neil Armstrong’s One Small Step. It …

Morse at one time was the mainstay of communication around the globe. From London to Sydney the dots and dashes were heard. Then in the …