I've been listening to a lot of public domain texts from Librivox, trying to fill in the spotty underpinnings of my education, and the various historical overvi

I've been listening to a lot of public domain texts from Librivox, trying to fill in the spotty underpinnings of my education, and the various historical overviews of various sciences, as well as biographies of scientists have been quite interesting. I wish that it was easier to review such in chronological order --- when I was reading books to my children I envisioned a period where we would read biographies of in chronological order, but that was rather a hard list to put together --- I eventually resorted to putting them on 3x5 cards so as to make sorting easier, and as a test run we did Presidential biographies (which helped me a lot with my understanding of the ebb and flow of U.S. history). One of the best programming classes I had was a comparative languages class where the programming languages were covered in order of development _and_ biographical information on the developers was included --- similarly this really helped with my understanding of computer development.