Steampunk Google and the World City

Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum

A system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... and made from index cards.

Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13

Tags: Belgium Esperanto Krishnamurti Paul Otlet Presented by #42 Theosophy World War I World War II

Published: March 4, 2024

Independent by Accident

a brief history of Neutral Moresnet (1814-1918)

An ambitious Prince William Frederick, prince of Orange-Nassau, was an ambitious man. The House of Orange had been chased from Holland by French revolutionaries, so when the Napoleonic empire crumbled in the final months of 1813 he was determined to grab as much of the spoils as he possibly could. His ultimate ambition was to […]

Categories: History, People & Places, Series 11

Tags: Belgium crime Esperanto France Germany Napoleon Bonaparte Presented by #42 Prussia The Tim Traveler travel

Published: July 11, 2022