quote [ The New Deal project that preserved Kentucky?s recipes ]

quote [ the PDP-1, manufactured by Ken Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), can also credibly be called the first console gaming machine ]

quote [ In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled fetal lambs? Or perhaps a medieval misapprehension of cotton? Thom Sliwowski traces the roots of this fabled zoophyte. ]

quote [ Many medical therapies, from cancer treatments to the management of infertility, are now so routine that their origins are easily overlooked. Yet each rests on years of painstaking research and discovery to ensure that such treatments are both safe and effective for clinical use. ]

quote [ Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand ? and they set them fast. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowds in the thousands, offered huge cash prizes, and helped women "Swifts" fight for workplace equity. ]

quote [ Scientists have revealed a precocious nanotech discovery involving an ancient Roman artifact that predates the modern development of nanotechnology by an astounding 1,600 years. ]

quote [ On the evening of 16 October 1834, the ancient Palace of Westminster, the seat of the British Parliament for centuries, was consumed by one of the most spectacular fires in London?s history. What began as a somewhat less-than-routine act of housekeeping ended in catastrophe, destroying most of the medieval complex and clearing the way for the grand Gothic Revival building that stands today. ]

quote [ Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax?s basement. ]

quote [ Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is ?perhaps the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history still in private hands,? the seller says ]

quote [ ?most of which involve murder. ]