...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...cess. Adding one sound after another, as in c-a-t, becomes very simple and natural. Simple as this system may seem, it‘s one of the most ingenious ev... ... port and trading center, it was extremely costly and was worn as mark of imperial or royal rank. Phoenicians were seafaring traders using manpowe... ...ng <<<<< Marco Polo Touted China‘s Magnificence 10 The Chinese Imperial Palace wasn’t built until almost a century after the death of Mar... ...bes on the grassier steppes. The Mongol male was perfectly attuned to a natural cycle of raiding other tribes and defending his own tribal possess... ...ger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investments went sour, died wh...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...