The Boston Massacre

Thanks to T studying the Boston Massacre in her history class, I ended up doing a deep dive of my own. This is a placeholder for some of the links that I found but later lost. Among the many interesting details I learned were that 8 soldiers involved in the incident were arrested, which must have been an astonishing assertion of civilian authority over a soveriegn military at the time, that John Adams was the defendant's lawyer at the trial and his defense is fascinatingly disgusting, only two were convicted and their punishment was hand branding, and Paul Revere published the famous engraving which he totally stole from somebody else. A public letter from the commander of the soldiers was published with their side of the story; it is as equally biased as "Patriot" reporting and T had to read it in her class. T was also greatly amused by the detail of a random dog in the engraving.

For starters, the wikipedia article on the Massacre, which pretty much has all of this info but for how long: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

Inspiration for Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty

It was interesting to learn from a neatorama article recently that there are theories about the real-life inspirations for Sherlock Holmes, as well as Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty. They both have interesting stories.

The inspiration for Sherlock Holmes was a professor that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had in medical school, Dr. Joseph Bell. He does sound like a very inspiring guy, an interesting blowhard at least who actually lived up to his image of himself:

http://www.siracd.com/work_bell.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bell

From one of the websites above, a lot of info about the author of Sherlock Holmes, who grew so tired of the character that he had him killed off. Interestingly, all that occurred prior to publication of the Hound Of The Baskervilles story, which is one of the most famous Holmes stories published.

http://www.siracd.com/Sherlock-Holmes.shtml

The theory of the inspiration for Professor Moriarty is that he was based on American criminal Adam Worth. Although an American, he fled to Europe and London where he founded an underground crime ring which seems to have left a huge impression on the British at the time.

http://www.siracd.com/sherlock/moriarty.shtml

Adam Worth's story is incredible; he had a very successful life of crime in the US before going to Europe, he had a three-way marriage with his best friend and a woman who later spurned both of them, he lived a high life in London financed by his crime ring, he was a "gentleman criminal" who commanded his employees to work without guns, or at least without killing others, after he became distraught over his friend being caught he set up a bad bank robbery that caused him to get caught and go to prison, and when he got out he visited his American pursuer in the Pinkertons to get his help returning the painting he had stolen, possibly in gratitude for not being extradited to the USA once he had been captured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Worth

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/pinkerton/6.html

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971005&slug=2564164

history bang recall substitution

I had to look this up and try it a couple of times before I got the syntax right. The correct syntax for history bang recall substitution.

!1026:s/original/replacement/

Here is an absolutely incredible online tutorial about history bang recall:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Scripting/Shellorama/bash_command_history_reuse.shtml

Here is a much smaller page on the subject, it might have something extra to add:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.baseadmn%2Fdoc%2Fbaseadmndita%2Fc_hist_sub.htm