From April through July 2014, I taught a class at the University of Tokyo titled “Exploring Texts of the Past.” In the class, the students and I read and discussed texts in English that we found on the Internet Archive.
There are in every language, ancient and modern, certain heterogeneous words and anomalous expressions, which render it more difficult to be acquired by students and foreigners, than even…
A simple but ingenious apparatus used by masons in hoisting large blocks of stone. Its invention is commonly ascribed to a French…
