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Rogue1-and-a-half posted:I really enjoyed that one. It was really short and a much quicker read than I thought it might be. I think my favorite moment was the jaw dropped that our days are still more or less named out of the Norse religion: Sun Day, Moon Day, (I forget Tuesday's original form), Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Frieg's Day & Saturn's Day. That's frigging awesome. And our months are mostly still from the Roman calendar. October, November and so on are numbered months (8th and 9th respectively), July is named after Julius Caesar, August is named after his successor Augustus who was mentioned earlier in this thread, January is named after the god Janus, etc.
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Sugar in the Blood is pretty interesting on Caribbean slavery and the plantation systems over there. In Miserable Slavery about Thomas Thistlewood for a different take.
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FMguru posted:Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine is the key text for that era Um well sort of. It focuses on the development of one particular minicomputer circa 1980, and the author is not technical nor writing for a technical audience which is annoying at times if you the reader are. Still a classic though.
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