History
Mata Hari: the woman behind the spy legend
From Margaretha Zelle to a European celebrity and a wartime conviction: the life behind one of history’s most persistent spy legends.
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Author: <span>Nimuthu Ganegoda</span>
Nimuthu Ganegoda (Nimuthu Raiden) is a systems architect and cybersecurity researcher at MITesp specializing in binary analysis, kernel telemetry, eBPF instrumentation, and zero-trust architectures. He curates ScannerServer as an independent workbench on systems resilience, reverse engineering, and global dynamics.
Japanese History
Reading the Meiji transition through Japan’s archives
Follow the difference between proposals, institutions, and outcomes using the National Diet Library’s document collection.
Japanese History
Japanese history: a starting map from Jomon to Meiji
Follow changes in evidence, government, and culture without treating every period as a single national story.
Japanese History
Edo society beyond the samurai: reading cities, art, and exchange
Use objects and institutional context to see more than a warrior-centered picture of Tokugawa Japan.
Prehistory
Prehistory in perspective: deep time, early humans, and the first tools
A grounded starting point for prehistoric history, with a scale exercise and a distinction between fossils and human artifacts.
Prehistory
How archaeologists date prehistoric evidence
Learn to separate a dated sample from an artifact, recognize calibration, and read uncertainty without turning it into false precision.
Tutorials & Projects
Turn JSONL web logs into a small Python report
Count HTTP status classes, report malformed records, and avoid a misleading error-rate denominator.