David May, parallel processing pioneer

"Roger Shepherd was one of graduates who worked with May in the Inmos days. Now director of processor design at STmicroelectronics, he sees the ideas around the Transputer coming back into relevance. "Most PCs today have two or four cores," he says. "How to program for multicore systems is one of today's key challenges. People are now asking the same sorts of questions we were trying to answer at Inmos 30 years ago. They are trying to solve real problems that Occam overcame.""

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/08/18/heroes_of_tech_david_may/print.html

Dial 999: 75 years of emergency phone calls

"On 30 June 1937, the capital's new emergency telephone line was unveiled. A notice in the Evening News advised the public how to use it.

"Only dial 999... if the matter is urgent; if, for instance, the man in the flat next to yours is murdering his wife or you have seen a heavily masked cat burglar peering round the stack pipe of the local bank building.

"If the matter is less urgent, if you have merely lost little Towser or a lorry has come to rest in your front garden, just call up the local police.""

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18520121

Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld

"Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld, who has died aged 88, escaped from Occupied France to join the Special Operations Executive (SOE); parachuted back on sabotage missions, he twice faced execution, only to escape on both occasions, once dressed as a Nazi guard. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9365640/Count-Robert-de-La-Rochefoucauld.html

We publish 2 million new Welsh parish records

"We have just published 2 million new Welsh parish registers.

This means that you can now search 5,924,611 records of Church in Wales parish registers on findmypast.co.uk:"

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/news/wales-june12

Cardiff from above

View of Cardiff showing Roath Park and Cardiff Cemetery

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/wpw052628?search=cardiff%2520&ref=1

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?name=Cardiff&gazetteer=Cardiff&UNITARY_AUTHORITY=Cardiff

What Britain used to look like from the air

"From sprawling factory complexes to newly built suburban streets - by way of some of the UK's top sporting venues and seaside resorts. More than 10,000 images from one of the earliest collections of aerial photography are being made freely available on the web. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18542080

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/

Wales from above

"More than 10,000 images from one of the earliest collections of aerial photography are being made freely available on the web, including many from Wales"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18576988

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/

Old Bricks - history at your feet

"A celebration of old named British bricks"

http://www.penmorfa.com/bricks/

Monmouth ruin find could pre-date pyramids

"Archaeologists claim to have unearthed the remnants of a large prehistoric building, which they say could be older than Egypt's pyramids.

Experts said they were mystified by the "unique" find on the site of a housing development in Monmouth.

Monmouth Archaeology, which found the wooden foundations, said they dated to at least the Bronze Age, but could be early Neolithic, about 6,500 years old."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18423528

Gower cave reindeer carving is Britain's oldest rock art

"A reindeer engraved on the wall of a cave in south Wales has been confirmed as the oldest known rock art in Britain.

The image in Cathole Cave on Gower, south Wales was created at least 14,000 years ago, said Bristol University."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18648683

Those Were The Days

"When I first started making enquiries which was around 1999 the majority of information led me to believe that the melody ( I had no Russian words / lyrics as yet ) was traditional and that the the origins of the melody appeared to be strongly claimed by the Russians and Russian gypsy's consider it their song. The name of this song seems to be "DOROGO' DLINNOYU" and translated means .....

"By a long road (or way)"  or
"Along a long road (or way)" or
"On a long way..."

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pat.richmonds/mhfs.htm

Cardiff Parks Superintendent's Reports January 1908 - October 1912

"This is a handwritten Report Book in which the Parks Superintendent, William Pettigrew, drafted his reports for the Cardiff Council Parks and Open Spaces Committee. It is currently in the care of the Cardiff Council's Parks Service.

Pettigrew held the position of Parks Superintendent, and subsequently Chief Parks Officer, during the period covered by the Report Book. A variety of handwriting styles appear in the reports, but Pettigrew personally signed very nearly all of them."

http://apps.cardiff.gov.uk/WebCat_Images/PDF/PDF077.pdf

Suze Rotolo

"The sixties were an era that spoke a language of inquiry and curiosity and rebelliousness against the stifling and repressive political and social culture of the decade that preceded it. The new generation causing all the fuss was not driven by the market: we had something to say, not something to sell."

-- Suze Rotolo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suze_Rotolo

The First Picture Ever Posted on the Web

"Though this photo may look like a prom picture on Facebook that's been blingee'd, it's actually the very first photo that was ever uploaded to the web. The history of the picture—in all its random glory and woeful photoshopping—is amazing."

http://gizmodo.com/5924748/heres-the-first-picture-ever-posted-on-the-internet


http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/10/crossdressing-compression-and-a-collider-the-first-photo-on-the-web

1909 GPS

"1909 GPS: the Jones Live-Map gave drivers directions on a rotating
trip disk connected to the car's odometer. "

http://factlets.info/JonesLiveMap

1860s photo album of Bala and Llanuwchllyn

"A Victorian family photo album found in a house attic has offered an insight into the lives of people in a corner of Gwynedd 150 years ago."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-18276187

Vulcan pub in Cardiff dismantled for St Fagans museum rebuild in 'several years

"The Vulcan Hotel will be a welcome addition to the collection of historical buildings at St Fagans"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-17955268

The Historical Evolution of Europe's Borders

"The movie "Epic time-lapse map of Europe" fast forwards a map from the year 1000 AD until 2003 to reveal the dynamic nature of Europe's borders, alliances, unions, territories, and occupied lands. "

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2012/05/the_historical_evolution_of_europes_borders.html

Old photographs of Cardiff

"Cardiff is the capital city of Wales. Cardiff was built up around the coal industry of the 19th century. Today it is a vibrant city, a friendly city, a cultural city, and a propsperous city, and at the heart of the city is Cardiff Castle."

http://www.oldukphotos.com/glamorgan_cardiff.htm

Finding Archimedes in the Shadows

"And we see, throughout, hints of someone standing triumphant at the borders of the ancient world, peering at us through accumulated catastrophes and layers of destruction, and surviving — just like the hero of any good thriller. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/arts/secrets-of-archimedes-at-walters-in-baltimore-review.html