http://istanbulansiklopedisi.org is live – The website brings together the printed volumes of Reşad Ekrem Koçu‘s unfinished #İstanbulAnsiklopedisi and archival documents made accessible for the first time. Check out the site here
A tribute to the victims. Here is the archive. The Sivas massacre, also known as the Madimak massacre, refers to the events of July 2, 1993, at the Hotel Madimak in Sivas, Turkey[1]. The victims, who had gathered in the hotel for the Pir Sultan Abdal festival, were mostly Alevi intellectuals, and 37 people … Read more
http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain NYPL puts 180,000 public domain images online kottke.org by Jason Kottke Here’s a fun way to browse the 187,000 digital items in the NY library’s public domain collection Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder I could get lost on this page for weeks. The stereoscopic views are great, if you know how to see them with your … Read more