Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
Beckwith, Byron de la; Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 -- Assassination
Letter to the editor from Byron de la Beckwith, written while in jail for the murder of Medgar Evers, asking for donations to help fund his legal defense