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...
University of Mississippi -- History; University of Mississippi -- Students;
Concerns the Mississippi baseball win against Tulane; the Sixth Annual Content of the Gulf States Oratorical Association; editorial defending the University Record after a student's attack of its credibility. This comprises the final issue by the...
In 1947, using his own Presto disc recording machine, Alan Lomax recorded bluesmen Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958), Memphis Slim (1915-1988), and Sonny Boy Williamson (1914-1948) at Decca Studios in New York City, after they had given a concert at...