Wongoksa Pagoda (원각사지십층석탑) in Seoul, an early description
Michael Gallagher I love this description of Wongoksa Pagoda (원각사지십층석탑) in Tapkol Kangwon (탑골 공원) (Pagoda Park) from The Korean Repository by F. Ohlinger, H. G. Appenzeller, George Heber Jones (1895). I…
June 2010
Norman Borlaug, We Are the World, and The Green Revolution
One of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century is also one many of us would fail to recognize. Norman Borlaug was a Nobel Laureate who…
Botanists and the Pacific Theater in World War II (via )
I was fairly pleased with this post so I am posting it to my own blog. If you want a little history lesson on quinine (anti-malarial drug) and rubber production…