Archive for October, 2007
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Monday, October 29th, 2007Twenty years before Karolson’s oppressive Canadian boredom came the extraordinary case of Gregory Aurifaber of London. Aurifaber, who has been the unfortunate victim of several generations of genealogists’ efforts to link him to the illustrious Charles Babbage through tenuous links with Georgiana Whitmore, never met the inventor of the analytical engine. He did, however, meet [...]
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