These sources are about particular people, scripts and places. This page lists five sources, oldest first where dated.
Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
The poster built a 3D map of City of LA buildings. The opening comment explains the data and tools. Replies praise it and correct what it shows. They then drift into zoning, taxes, water and transit. The thread has the poster's own answers and many unsourced commenter claims.
Kingdom of Loango
The article summarizes what European travellers, missionaries and later historians recorded about Loango. It covers the name, the kings' succession, government, religion and trade. It leans on named sources such as Dapper, Battel, Proyart and Phyllis Martin. It says plainly where evidence is thin.
Hangul
This is a volunteer-written encyclopedia article with numbered citations. It covers the names, invention, letter design, spelling rules and computer encoding of Hangul. It also records scholarly disputes about how to classify the script.
Angkor Wat
The article covers the temple's history from Hindu foundation to Buddhist use. It describes the architecture, reliefs, restoration and tourism. It also records disputed readings of the temple's purpose and astronomy.
Mary Wollstonecraft
This is a volunteer-written encyclopedia article with numbered citations. It covers Wollstonecraft's life, the reception of the work and the books written. A long section traces how the reputation fell and later recovered.
Connections to other subjects
These links are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make.
- Hangul and On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (EWD 667), from Checkable specs for coding agents. Dijkstra credits modern mathematics to designed formal symbols. Hangul is a designed script too, with consonant shapes based on speech organs. But Hangul serves everyday language. So design and ease of use may be less opposed than Dijkstra's essay suggests.
Glossary
- Assessor roll
- The county list of properties used for tax assessment.
- Bas-relief
- A carving that stands out only slightly from its background.
- Cabinda
- A coastal territory of Angola, once part of Loango's area.
- Devata
- A carved female divine figure, like those on Angkor Wat's walls.
- Downzoning
- Changing land rules to allow fewer or smaller buildings.
- DuckDB
- A database engine that runs on a single machine.
- Featural script
- A writing system whose letter shapes encode features of speech sounds.
- Girondins
- A more moderate faction of the French Revolution.
- Hanja
- Chinese characters as used to write Korean.
- Interregnum
- A gap between one ruler's death and the next ruler's accession.
- Jacobins
- A radical political group that held power in France during the Terror.
- Jamo
- The individual letters of Hangul, such as consonants and vowels.
- Kikongo
- The Bantu language of the Kongo peoples, spoken in Loango in a northern dialect.
- LARIAC
- A Los Angeles County program that collects aerial imagery and lidar data.
- Lidar
- A laser survey method that measures the height and shape of objects.
- Mafouk
- A Loango official who managed trade with Europeans for the king.
- Memoir
- An account of a person's life, here written by William Godwin.
- Morphophonemic
- A spelling style that keeps word parts constant even when sounds change.
- Mount Meru
- The sacred mountain at the center of the universe in Hindu and Buddhist belief.
- Nkisi
- A Kongo word for a spiritual power or object that holds one.
- PMTiles
- A single-file map tile format that can be served as static files.
- Prop 13
- A 1978 California measure that limits property tax increases.
- Quincunx
- An arrangement of five points, four at the corners and one in the middle.
- Sensibility
- An eighteenth-century cult of feeling and emotional display.
- Syllable block
- A square cluster of letters that spells one syllable.
- Temple-mountain
- A Khmer temple built as a stepped mountain to model the cosmos.
- Vili
- The main ethnic group of Loango, also called Bavili.
- Vindication
- A formal defense of a position, used in the titles of two main works.