Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…about ‘the Renaissance’, Europeans in that period proved better at adapting ideas from elsewhere than actually coming up with inventions of their own. But how did cards get to Europe?…

…of Europe. Unfortunately for Beachcombing TP’s book, though well-written and amusing, covers a series of Europeans – Byron, the Emperor Tiberius, the Marquis de Sade – with whom Beach is…

In western memory, particularly in European memory the guns of August 1914 were a long awaited horror: and while the First World War was so much worse than anyone could…

…seven when the sans-culottes decided to end civilisation: ‘the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever’. And he was ten when he died, in 1795, a lone prisoner in the…

…sign of resolution… 4 The European Union and the Euro will survive but fewer states will use the Euro in 2030 than in 2015 (19) 5 Russia will cause military…

…other articles were about him, return to the Prince’s lodgings, shut himself there under a plea of sickness until he could sail for Europe —which would be in a day…

…the entire world”-and there are some extant European maps from that time frame that show a great deal more than what Europeans are believed to have explored at that time…

…triggered parturition. This was a remarkable discovery in itself, but Liggins’ real genius – and it is difficult to understand why he didn’t have a couple of Nobel prizes slapped…

…to Discovery Island, Walt Disney World’s long-abandoned nature park. Discovery Island, located in the heart of Bay Lake, was left to rot years ago when the opening of Animal Kingdom…

…J.V. Brower he has published an account of the discovery of a remarkable bronze medal bearing date 1446. It was found by Mr. Howard W. Crosby in an old Indian…

…that Generous Patron of Learning, the Reverend and very Worthy Dr. Charlett, Master of University College, and is now preserved amongst the curious Collections of Mr. John Kemp… This discovery…

…much older victim, who has since become known as ‘Oldcroghan man’ (Grice 2006: 20). “The circumstances of this discovery were not unique. In 1983, Andy Mould, working on the processing…

…cities around before the discovery of the New World. To give some sorts of limit to this exercise six chronological moments have been chosen at five-hundred year intervals: 1000 BC,…

…journey through the hinterlands of Europe really happened. In the nineteenth century most scholars believed that it did happen: in fact, many took Ulrich’s voyage of discovery for granted. In…

…prior to the discovery of America and the ancient Incas, syphilis was unknown in Europe. Nearby pre-Columbian Incan graves were at the moment producing – under the spades of a…