Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…when investigated by Admiral Collinson and others, but is again stirred up from a discovery made by Captain Kirby. The fact is, the discovery made by Captain Kirby was put…

…thought that the four lands stood to the north of the known world. IV) Inventio Fortunata means Happy Discovery: what was the Happy Discovery? (thanks Down the Rabbit Hole) Beach…

…spot of the discovery. Or rather he brought them to three separate spots claiming that each was the site of the discovery! We cannot even be sure of the details…

…search of the Indies? (0/37) 7) What other great European discovery took place around the time of Columbus’ discovery? (1497) (1/37) 8) Who was the first European to definitely say…

…with Shinichi Fujimura. It is unlikely, after that fiasco, that as august a body as the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties would have lightly announced such a discovery….

…it’s downright ludicrous! I think what he’s saying is this. He was already predisposed toward his own pet theory that it was possible to reach China from Europe via the…

…interesting but not world-changing. Galicia’s Santiago di Compostela was Europe’s premiere pilgrimage site after Rome (with nicer people to boot) and Irish pilgrims were included in the general flow: we…

A recent story on the supposed archaeological discovery of shuck – [sorry can’t give links, wordpress playing up] – has set me thinking about large violent dogs in history, the…

…were best known in Europe at this date through the Deadly Nightshade, a nasty little number whose leaves and berries are extremely poisonous: in fact, in Europe they were one…

…have gone unnoticed by those who have looked at trans-Atlantic ‘Indians’. It is not, for example, in Forbes’ American Discovery of Europe. Fourth, Beach was just too polite to bring…

…rather earlier) believed that the earth was a sphere. It is also true that this knowledge was fully established in Christian Europe by the eighth century AD – the idea…

…Maximilian was not quite the patsy though that many in Europe and monarchists of Mexico had hoped. He was one of those men who had a little bit too much…

…of documentaries and of books: say, Katyn in much of the rest of Europe (at least in the west) and you will be thought to be coughing up flem. It…

…vanguard role in many of the class battles that raged in Europe during the feudal age, and into the epoch of industrial capitalism. Transvestism was an emblem of class militancy,…

…Europe are non-Christian, but need this be the case? There are two other sources for non Christian beliefs without going back into prehistory: and remember for most of Europe, pre-Christian…