Imp of the Diverse

Bardorf On July 15, 1921 the Esperanto Association of North America elected a new president. This is not the sort of thing that makes th...

And this is the device that I've labeled in Esperanto. In 1904, the British chemist, Sir William Ramsay , was awarded the Nobel Pri...

Did Ramsay ever speak to Ostwald in Esperanto? A short item in the Aberdeen Herald of Aberdeen, Washington (not Scotland ) makes a co...

Wilhelm Ostwald The early Esperanto movement had the support of many prominent figures of the scientific world, including the great Germ...

The latest fad in Boston The Congregationalist and Christian World paid scant attention to Esperanto, even though its place of publicat...

Happy Ether Day! If it was Ether Day on this day in 1908, then it must be Ether Day today! I stumbled across one reference, but had a ha...

Get your tickets early! 1910 seemed to have both good and bad for the Esperanto movement. On the one hand, preparations were being made ...

Sulfer? WTF! A high school senior in Georgia might be kept from attending graduation over her yearbook quote. Gawker picked up the stor...