Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…was worth, it goes without saying, a hundred of her persecutors: it is difficult to be sufficiently dismissive of the human sewage who ran continental Europe’s first totalitarian experiment. She…

…equal or greater veracity were circulating in Europe. Here are the two best-known examples: Nuremberg and Basel. There seems to have been something in the air, so to speak! Thanks…

…me on Tuesday. I was travelling in Europe with Mrs Fears and it was a Tuesday and we went out to get in our car and we were in England…

…(though even that date has recently come under attack). In most parts of Europe they turned up like a group of Hells Angels, revving their bikes and clanking their chains….

…facts about sexuality in western Europe and later European colonies is that way that there was one standard for male homosexuality and quite another for female homosexuality. Cue that delightful…

…at tea, unable to command his tears’. Other Amerindians in Europe: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com These wonderful letters taken from Arctic 63 Stopp and Mitchell. Compliments to the editors….

…held, of course, but he took one of the great shots of the twentieth century, the photograph that came to represent victory in Europe for the western allies and revenge…

…of Europe’s smaller countries with three Panzer divisions, ouch. Second, Michael R refers to the Ecuador Peru border wars that ‘raged’ from c1820-c1980. Michael writes, in fact: There were a…

…we used above: they were ‘world weary’ and accepting of Europe’s incompletely converted peasantry. Second, – and this is Agobard as fighter – when Agobard waded into the popular meeting…

…ball-players even toured Europe in the sixteenth century. Finally, there are some traditional b-gs played today that allegedly bear a relation to the game once played in jaguar and bird…

…victim gets a soaking (see mischievous pixies) or even drowns (northern part of the UK and northern Europe). An example, of this contrast from the late 1890s: Last evening at…

…for, at least in Europe, by the taxpayer. We have a parallel to the disturbing monopoly on academic knowledge kept by those large online databases, databases that are reproducing information…

…Beach, here we find evidence that the first Europeans to discover the New World were the Eastern-European Amazon warrior-woman tribes, first noted in written records by the classical Greeks, and…

…amused by Chinese names of European & Western nations [DB: no!]. (1) England = 英国 (yingguo, “Nation of the Brave,” “Valiant Nation, etc.) (2) America = 美国 (meiguo, “Nation of…

…or daughter’s life partner. In fact, in medieval and early modern Europe the only ones who really got to make their own decisions were those who were lucky enough to…