Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…that matter, in the Paleolithic caves? We have severe problems in seventeenth-century Europe with surviving parish registers… However, what is most striking to a casual outsider is the basic continuity…

…incidence of love between the peoples of Europe wider coverage. We are in 1931. Prague. Thursday. Two schoolboys were killed in the course of a snowball fight between Czecho-Slovak boys…

…obeliskoi was routinely rendered as ‘obelisks’ and European antiquarians got very excited by the idea of standing stones, near real or imagined graves, being the ‘victims’ of mighty warriors of…

The other big three, Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George: would you put the future of Europe in their hands?…

…Spanish newspaper, Informaciones claimed, on Hitler’s death, that Germany had chosen to spare Europe by not using these secret weapons! (So uncharacteristically good of Adolf). Internal Reich memos also recorded…

…is eleventh century (??) then it is one of our earliest visual representations of a dragon from western Europe. Remember the Orkney dragon? Other bizarre crests: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT…

…Ukraine. Instead the POW’s were butchered and starved to death as a plan to reduce the population of Eastern Europe and make room for German settlers. The artificial gasoline derived…

…seen as being lucky. But why should law and the caul be connected and how wide is this association: we’ve limited ourselves here to Europe: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com….

…was the fundamental one in European history and the Cold War had frozen along that traditional divide (46). In 2005 in Postwar the fundamental line in European history was north-south,…

…topos, do we have folklore; do we a cack-handed borrowing from a classical source (i.e. PM) or do we have Amerindians in twelfth-century Europe? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com Also…

…a German ‘tourist’, turns up for a holiday in Mondoñedo in July in the ‘silly season’ when news stories in Europe are at an absolute low. One evening – the…

…of the oldest continuously used buildings in Western Europe, there was no strategic justification. The bombing of the monastery meant that German paratroopers could swarm over the ruins and use…

…‘French’ mind frame, copyright is an expression of some ‘natural right’?’ For Beach the catastrophe here was the EU’s decision in the 90s to merge European copyright according to the…

…no other medieval collection from anywhere in Europe which is so relentlessly focused on ghosts. Then, also, the Byland tales are written in a rather abbreviated way: they were as…

…correcting Beach’s transcription and putting the translation to rights!!! 25 June 2011: Kudos to Jonathan Jarrett from A Corner of Tenth Century Europe who broke the ‘al vino’ crux in…