Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…ballast. Boats leaving London empty were frequently obliged to fill up with ballast dredged up from the Thames and this ballast was subsequently dropped elsewhere with various human refuse from…

…magnum bottle full of human misery ready to fizz over.       Small pox was carried by traders into the interior and then by the nomadic tribes on and…

…were struck by pagan internationalism and rejection of nationalism. Americans blatantly [!! love this word] propagated tolerance, pacifism, and other ‘general human’ values’. Understandably, Ukrainian Pagans are critical of such…

…get to blow up the enemy flagship? On land there was everything from machetes to canons, and rocks to catapults. But under the waves human potential for violence was seriously…

…took time to catch on. Of course, much of this was sensible human conservatism: ‘hell, this is new, let’s go slow’, laced with lots of nonsense about these foods causing…

…the Nile? Or was this something that had come out of the Hindu east and been borrowed or appropriated? Or is just part of the human condition? In any case,…

The machinery of human reproduction means that (save in exceptional circumstances) there may be doubt about the father, but there can be no question as to a baby’s mother. But…

…for several decades now, superhero comics have been aware that characters whose powers are genetically innate would be impossible for normal human parents to raise – how, exactly, do you…

…in the parlance of this blog – develop. Beach, btw, believes that cobblers are to humanity what daisies are to lawns. First myth: the first dynasty was using the wheel!!!…

…Matus were wary of it’s supposedly because in essence green energy’s also the frequency of the vegetational universe so you’re essentially dealing with entities who may at times resemble human…

…a witch. So dear is power to the human heart, that this old woman actually encouraged the popular superstition: she took no pains to remove the ill impression, but seemed…

…tens of magpies, indeed, as many as three hundred come together in a parliament out of sight of prying humans. There they debate issues and squawk and then disappear into…

…from the page in the image above. Not picking up would be a pity and the literary equivalent of saying that The Dubliners can’t tell you anything about human nature…

…by a ferocious indigenous people who not only fed on human flesh but considered it a very savoury dish. Only one fisherman was spared so he could teach them the…

…hard idea. If you get fifty American students – aged 19-22 – from various faculties across the humanities into one classroom and ask them to explain how western history breaks…