Rahul Jain has something Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t. And for $21,000-plus, it can be yours. Zuckerberg launched Facebook forerunner FaceMash seven years ago this month, a tale popularized in the blockbuster film "The Social Network." But he allowed his lease of the rights to the Internet domain name FaceMash.com to lapse in 2007, and Jain snatched them up at auction late last year ahead of the movie’s release. Now, he’s selling them on domain auction site Flippa.com. Bidding was at $21,000 on October 21. Jain, a New York-area investment banker by day, says he’s bought, developed and sold domain names as a part-time business since 1999. He estimates that he holds between 300 and 400.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/FaceMash+forerunner+Facebook+auction/3694847/story.html

Lee De Forest (1873-1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his name. De Forest invented the audion, a vacuum tube that takes weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age," as the audion helped to usher in the widespread use of electronics. He was involved in several patent lawsuits (and he spent his fortune from his inventions on legal bills). In 1916, De Forest, from his own news radio station, had the first radio advertisement (for his products) and the first presidential election reported by radio. He went on to lead the first radio broadcasts of music (featuring opera star Enrico Caruso) and many other events but could receive little backing. In the early 1920s, he invented talking movies. In 1922, De Forest improved on the work of German inventors and developed the Phonofilm. Phonofilm process recorded sound directly onto the film stock as parallel lines. Lines photographically record electrical impulses from a microphone and are translated back into sound waves when projected. The Phonofilm system of recording synchronized sound directly onto film stock was used to record stage performances (such as in vaudeville), speeches, and musical acts. He started the "De Forest Phonofilm Corporation", but could interest no one in Hollywood in his invention at the time. Several years after the Phonofilm Company folded, Hollywood decided to use a different method but eventually came back to the methods De Forest originally proposed. http://www.biographybase.com/biography/DeForest_Lee.html

Latinized Given Names See if your name is here--don't forget to check column on the right. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oel/latingivennames.html
Latin Forms of English Surnames in Great Britain and Ireland http://comp.uark.edu/~mreynold/recint6.htm

A site that typifies the multi-layered nature of British history is Old Sarum. Situated just north of the city of Salisbury and west of Castle Road (A345), the mound known today as Old Sarum has been the site of a Neolithic settlement, an Iron Age Hillfort, a Roman military station, and a Norman palace and cathedral, before fading into history on a final sour note as a "rotten borough." In Roman times, the hill was known as Sorvioduni or Sorbiodoni. It is referred to as Searobyrg in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Sarisberie in the Domesday Book. The name "Sarum," which begins to appear in the early 13th century, seems actually to be the result of a sort of medieval typo. In medieval manuscripts, the name "Sarisberia" or "Sarisburia" was often abbreviated as simply "Sa" -- but a mark at the end of this abbreviation (and others like it) was often incorrectly taken for an "r" and believed to indicate the suffix "rum." In the case of Sarum, the typo stuck, causing the site to be known both as Sarum and Salisbury.
See pictures at: http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/castles/sarum.shtml

The Croton Distributing Reservoir, also known as the Murray Hill Reservoir, was an above-ground reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It supplied the city with drinking water during the 19th century. The reservoir was a man-made lake 4 acres (16,000 m2) in area, surrounded by massive, 50-foot (15 m) high, 25-foot (7.6 m) thick granite walls. Its facade was done in a vaguely Egyptian style. Along the tops of the walls were public promenades, offering breathtaking views. After construction was completed, it became a popular place to go strolling for residents of New York City. The reservoir held a total capacity of 20 million gallons. When established, the Croton Aqueduct was once NYC's foremost water source. Amidst great fanfare, water was introduced into the Croton Distributing Reservoir on July 4, 1842. Prior to construction of the aqueduct, water was obtained from cisterns, wells and barrels from rain. The aqueduct and reservoir obtained their names from the water's source, a series of mostly underground conduits that would bring water from the Croton River in northern Westchester County to NYC's spigots. The Croton Distributing Reservoir was torn down at the end of the century; in the 1890s. Today, the main branch of the New York Public Library and Bryant Park exist at that location. Some of the reservoir's original foundation can still be found in the South Court at the New York Public Library. Today water is primarily supplied to New York City via its three city water tunnels. The Central Park Reservoir still remains, but since 1993 has no longer been in use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croton_Distributing_Reservoir

Civilians: Those individuals not involved in the computer industry, or casual computer users to hackers
Crack: To illicitly break into a computer, usually to steal or destroy data or prevent others from using the system.
Hack: Originally this word meant to quickly write a software program for a limited purpose though it evolved to mean the study and writing of innovative software programs. Increasingly the term is used by civilians to mean breaking into computer systems for malicious purposes--a practice more properly referred to as cracking. The word is also used as a noun to mean a clever piece of programming.
Social engineering: conning someone, feeding them facts, pretending you're someone you're not in order to get them to do something you want.
Dinosaur pens: Special rooms housing early computers
ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator--came online in the forties
UNIVAC: Universal Automatic Computer--first one was delivered to the Census Bureau March 31, 1951. The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver