119 posts on "Historical Echoes"
May 6, 2016
Historical Echoes: Echoes, Schmechoes, This Post Only Has a Drop of History in It
You might hear: “Economy eschmonomy.” Another possibility is: “Economy schmeconomy.” This phenomenon of repeating a word with the prefix shm- (or sometimes “schm-“), is called shm-reduplication. It challenges the relevance and sometimes the value of the repeated word, and examples can be found in articles like this Newsday clip “The High End: Economy, shmeconomy — the rich still travel.”
November 13, 2015
October 16, 2015
Historical Echoes: Who Wants to Be the Richest Economist?
You might think that, given the extreme levels of wealth that exist today, the richest economist would be someone who was still alive. But you’d be wrong.
August 28, 2015
Historical Echoes: How Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism Make Money
Have you seen these people? You might come upon them wearing historic period garb.
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July 14, 2015
Historical Echoes: The Woman Who Would Be Bank
Mary Roebling (1904-94) was the first woman to serve as president of a major U.S. bank.
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July 10, 2015
Historical Echoes: The Year of the . . . Pigeon?
One could say that Sesame Street character Bert’s extreme interest in paper clips is misguided, but his obsession with pigeons? Maybe not so much. Pigeons have played a role in financial history, with one such role described by Tony Chen during his walking tour of the Hutong district in Beijing.
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May 29, 2015
Historical Echoes: Move Over Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard, Let’s Pay Homage to the — Stereoscopic Viewer!
Within the New York Public Library Digital Collections is the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views. Stereoscopic photographs were viewed with a stereoscopic viewer or stereoscope. According to the “About” tab of the NYPL page for the collection, “During the period between the 1850s and the 1910s, stereos were a mainstay of home entertainment, perhaps second only to reading as a personal leisure activity.” They also functioned as a way for people to travel vicariously, or as an aid to the study of history and other cultures. You know you’ve found an image meant to be seen with a stereoscopic viewer when it is double, with the images slightly askew from one another. The kinds of images that were particularly suitable as subjects for stereoscopic photography were those involving objects at varying distances from the viewer (for example, landscapes and cityscapes). (This is only one form of stereoscopy, which incorporates other technologies.)
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April 3, 2015
Historical Echoes: Pop Culture Sold Savings Bonds
U.S. savings bonds were created in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assist the United States in raising funds for a variety of government programs.
February 13, 2015
Historical Echoes: No Valentines Please, We’re British
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and we’re not asking you questions or dispensing advice about it — that’s not (yet) our business.
January 16, 2015
Historical Echoes: The World of Bank Names, According to Andy Rooney
Did’ya ever notice how silly those Historical Echoes posts can get?
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