Massachusetts State Archives 61:166 (1667)
Ordered that for prevention of Infection by any of the passengers in Mr Leggs ship: that hath by the hand of God been visited with the small pox …
From the records of the Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, November 1691:
Deborah Byar convict by Testimonies & by her owne confession of putting on men’s Apparrell at severall times & places, once in a public house. The Court order her to stand one houre on a stoole ...
From Kennebunkport, ME town records:
... 17th of Febr 1787
1ly voted to put a final stop to the spreading of the Small Pox in sd town immediately - voted that anny Person that shall set up anny Pest house in arundel for Innockultion shall Pay a fine to sd town of Fifty Pounds
The preposition "till" predates "until" by >400 years. 1st attested, 8th century Ruthwell Cross. Elder Futhark runes
@kottke @jkottke It begins to sound like Ligeti's "Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes" by the end there: vimeo.com/50606554
Annular eclipse by Phobos as seen by the Curiosity rover on Mars; August 17, 2013. I made video from images at NASA youtube.com/watch?v=LHMiiCuA…
One of several newly attested Gothic words from "Gothica Bononiensia" xefer.com/2013/07/gothica
Bas-de-page image was drawn by a professional but illiterate woman, Jean de Montbaston. xefer.com/2013/03/phallus-tr…
First use of word "twitter" from Chaucer's translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiæ" openlibrary.org/books/OL1399…
Orbit of the recently discovered S0-102, closest known star to the Milky Way's black hole, relative to Sedna and Pluto
