Imp of the Diverse

Some things never change. That headline could be current. Virgil C. Dibble was not a scientist. When he wrote a letter to the magazin...

Basic journalism, guys: when, where, and who? For the first couple decades of the twentieth century there seemed to be an expectation t...

I wanted a picture of Professor Mann. No luck. In the early twentieth century, one of the major figures of the American Esperanto moveme...

Margaret Henderson Bacteriologist. Esperantist. The April 5, 1906 San Francisco Call article on an Esperanto group at the University ...

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...

Who are you calling a crank ? Most of the articles I look at do not have bylines, as a result it’s often impossible to tell who wrote th...

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...

I see a picture of two men. One has a beard. On August 29, 1903, the Deseret Evening News ran a somewhat long piece on (then) current s...

Kilner said he saw this when looking at a healthy man The Washington Times reported on August 5, 1911 on the work of a New York physic...

Get your investments in now! Could the solution to our energy woes in 2014 been solved in a letter to the New-York Tribune, which was p...

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

Don't drink, smoke, or read! A short item in the May 23, 1907 Princeton Union tells of the latest activities of the Women's Chri...

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