Today 242 years ago, sailor and explorer James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef while running aground and risking his ship, the HMS Endeavour, to sink.
Author, journalist, satirist, and critic Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born 70 years ago today. He had a great influence in the literature of the 20th century through his works, most of them dealing with the American Civil War.
"Still, there was a romantic innocence about the 20th century's view of the future. It was a sort of plastic Camelot; in both senses of the term. So, settle on your jetpack, hitch up your blaster, and tune in the videotron as we tour Future Past!"
G. Lucio. apud Joannem Blaeu, Francofurti, (1666.)Contents: Includes at end historical writings by various other authors relating to Dalmatia and Croatia..
S. Ljubić, and G. Novak (Eds.) Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium Sumptibus Academiae Scientiarum et Artium,, Zagrabiae, (1876-)Vol. 4- have added t.p. in Croatian: Mletačka uputstva i izvještaji. Contents: t. 1. 1433-1527.--t. 2. 1525-1553.--t. 3. 1553-1571.--t. 5. 1591-1600. Sabrao i obradio Grga Novak.-- et al....