An online bookseller uses its success selling books to sell us groceries. For groceries, there’s Spam, released 5 July 1937: A book to read with the snack? Go to the books section to pick up Isaac Newton’s Principia, first published 5 July 1687: One thing that you can’t get at Amazon is a photo of… Continue reading #OTD 5 July – An Amazon of choice
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#OTD 12 February
Amazon was almost called Cadabra. The name was dropped because too many people on the phone heard “Cadaver”. On 12 February 1809, two births. One, at The Mount in Shrewsbury on the River Severn, Charles Darwin. The other, on Sinking Spring Farm in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln. One writer has called them “the men behind the… Continue reading #OTD 12 February