On February 23, 1633, English naval administrator and Member of Parliament Samuel Pepys was born, who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. · http://yovisto.blogspot.de/2013/02/the-amazing-diary-of-samuel-pepys-esq.html#

On February 21, 1947, American scientist and inventor Edwin Land introduced the very first instant camera together with an associated film. Land's new camera would allow people to produce a black and white photograph in about sixty seconds. The new film already contained the necessary chemicals to develop and fix the image directly on the photographic paper. · http://yovisto.blogspot.de/2013/02/edwin-land-father-of-polaroid-instant.html

On February 13, 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly introduced Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, the first general purpose, electronic computer. ENIAC was a giant step forward in computing technology. · http://yovisto.blogspot.de/2013/02/eniac-first-computer-introduced-into.html

On February 10, 1840, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. · http://yovisto.blogspot.de/2013/02/victoria-and-albert-royal-wedding.html

A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web · http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb-20101206/

CShapes is a new dataset that provides historical maps of state boundaries and capitals in the post-World War II period. · http://nils.weidmann.ws/projects/cshapes

On January 31, 1797, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert was born. Even though his many symphonies, operas and piano pieces were not highly appreciated during his lifetime, he was posthumously praised as one of the most important composers of the Romantic era in music. · http://yovisto.blogspot.de/2013/01/franz-schubert-misjudged-pioneer-of.html