Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…and looked through it, to their utter astonishment they saw, some forty yards away, a group of dark figures of human size standing in a circle about ten yards in…

…while in the foreground lies a prostrate man, behind whom stands a cow. To the left of the picture are certain human figures in attitudes expressive of surprise. This ancient…

…Mitochondrial Eve. Every human being on the planet today ultimately came out of her womb about 200,000 years ago, probably in Africa. Funny to think that Beachcombing writing this blog,…

…Perhaps the pertinent words here are ‘on some level’. The human mind is complex and even something as simple as Beachcombing waking up at 4.00 am this morning has about…

…ignore normal bureaucratic procedures? Was it just an absolute ruthlessness in, for example, employing human guinea-pigs in medical experiments? Or was it the ideological nature of the war that saw…

…the Eucharist as eating the flesh of another human being. In fact, it only really came home to Beachcombing a few years ago when explaining Christian belief to a class…

…suppose) vestigial human capacity to fully experience active imagination? A capacity that has been relegated to the useless functions file and hence is now quite dormant. and, on a personal…

…and was presumably an authority figure for Tumnus. Men, Monks and Gamekeepers is sheer genius: a faun equivalent of a human Ghosts, Fairies and Mermaids. Then Is Man a Myth?…

…ingenio illum obtinere potuit, cùm tamen circa hoc laborauerit. There are two other medieval texts which have canine humans living to the south or east of India. Ibn Battuta (obit…

…of charting the perversions of the human imagination. Beachcombing had been going to spend the Christmas holidays writing serious academic ‘stuff’ about Marco Polo. But, somewhere about 10 Dec he…

…just a predictable human trait: faced with the real thing you talk and write about something else? Are there other periods where apocalypse mania has ebbed as real world disasters…

…gods until good karma is used up, b) another human life, c) an animal, d) as a hungry ghost. Ringing of bells is quite common in a buddhist monastery. Also…

…mention can only be seen in history’s rear-view mirror, imo. If only the nexus of crucial human events could be foreseen. On the other hand, that might not be such…

…of human ingenuity Beach would like to offer his own modest addition to the canon: quipus cunningly tied into ML’s hair tell the tragic story of a ménage a trois…

…my art. Except for the prudent correction of an imminent danger, I will neither treat any patient nor carry out any research on any human being without the valid informed…