Category: Resources

lattitude and longitude for Hod HaSharon are 32° 09′ 03″ N , 034° 53′ 18″ E according to the NIMA site on geographic names.

I looked it up after following a link to geoURL. Not many sites in Israel – it lists one about Lebanon and one about Jordan, as well as 3 Israeli sites – a personal page of someone in Hod Hasharon who has some nice pictures and aerial photography (I could have just pinched the coordinates from his page, really), and two blogs, one by someone in Jerusalem and one about BDSM, currently on hiatus.

Just ran across another Victorian map of London, in additional to the impressive Greenwood’s Map of London 1827, there’s also Dr. John Snow’s 1859 map. Snow used a map published by James Reynolds in 1857 to plot epidemics of Cholera, as documented nicely on the site.

Born Under Ophiuchus and Ignored by the Horoscopes:
A Modern Dilemma by John Mosley of the Griffith Observatory offers an updated modern zodiac. According to this, I’m a Leo, not a Virgo (I thought all that stuff about being tidy and meticilous sounded a bit off… now a Lion, that regal beast that lazes about all day and is completely dependant on females for feeding him, that sounds closer to home).

A Photo Gallery showing the monks and monasteries of Egypt. Also, a page on the history of the Coptic church in Egypt. For Aya (and Kareem).

Another nice and unrelated resource is World Statesmen, which lists the heads of nations, colonies, international and religious
organizations, and other polities mostly since the year 1700..

A futile search for a definitive and in-depth chronology for historical events that took place in 1888 (and did not involve Jack the Ripper…) turned up this mixed bag of timelines:

• A 19th C. chronology by genre – musical genre, that is – has a nice breakdown of developments in literature, the arts and world history, as well as in Opera, choral music, Orchestral music, Solo and chamber music…
• A massive chronology of Chronology of Thomas Edison’s Life, in two parts: 1847-1878 and 1879-1931. Lots of other Edison resources there too, it appears.
• A Chronology of Jules Verne by William Butcher, from the incomprable Verne site. By 1888, Verne had gone into local politics.
• A brief chronology of Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
• And finally, only very tangentially related, Vampires: A Chronology.