World Enough and Time

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/19/clockmaker-john-harrison-vindicated-250-years-absurd-claims

"What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day?  Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the sign of leaping houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou should be so superfluous as to demand the time of the day." - Henry to Falstaff

AMAZING PIECE OF HISTORY -- Beginning of the Israeli air force

A TRUE STORY, NOT KNOWN BY MANY . . THE ONLY FIGHTER PLANES ISRAEL HAD WHEN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (MAY 1948) BEGAN WERE SMUGGLED IN FROM CZECH REPUBLIC. THEY WERE GERMAN MESSERSCHMITT BF-109'S. THEY WERE ASSEMBLED OVERNIGHT IN TEL AVIV AND WERE NEVER FLIGHT TESTED. THIS IS A SHORT VIDEO ABOUT THEIR PILOTS. WATCH IT. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.
 

Here is what a Messerschmitt 109 looks like up close:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzUUlO6ihwE
 
 
 
 
 
 

The first fractal village?

This is the beautiful Cotswald village of Bourbon-on-the-Water.  Inside the village there is a model of the village.  The model, too, has a model of the village, including the model, which also has a model, recursively, and so forth.