Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…among the general European population (7%). Note that two other bodies had typical European DNA sequences. Seventeen bodies, dead or alive, were thrown down a well: should we assume that…

Different countries, of course, have different shape-shifters. Northern Europe and France have a strong werewolf tradition. Amerindian peoples have a lot of changing into birds. In northern Scandinavia shaman became…

Europe from 1933-1945, from Hitler’s arrival in office to the moment that the moustached one ends his life with a pistol in the bunker. What a truly remarkably, ear-splittingly screwed…

…to be compelled to work in the Americas, northern Europe and, happily for the UK, Britain. In 2015 the European Research Council gave 302 major funding grants, and 30 of…

…in Georgia during Reconstruction? Surely Attila or Genghis Khan used to be thrown at naughty Euro-Asian kids? Perhaps some of the Turkish rulers were employed in central Europe: certainly ‘the…

…continental north-western Europe. Then, they went further afield, raiding down as far as Arabic Iberia and beyond. Beach’s question is a simple one: what is the furthest the vikingr got…

…United States. AO (still reeling from news of Pearl Harbor, and rather vague about central Europe): Hungary, Hungary, now let me see. You’re a republic, right? HA: Not at all,…

…of fire would make his evolution into a trickster almost a certainty.’ Then Bruce: ‘If I were looking for the source in northwest Europe, I would look at other names…

…bet is that the entire Americas would have been conquered by Europeans save for two areas. Mexico and Peru were the most organized regions by European standards. These areas would…

…out of the University of Oslo have been taken to show that the climate in Europe was not amenable to rat explosions in the generation prior to outbreaks; and noted…

                There is a general consensus that chess came out of the east, that it arrived in Europe through the Arab Mediterranean and…

…all almost impossibly unlikely. First, the voyagers made the great voyage from, say, Europe to China across what is today the Atlantic- Pacific: we know that a continent called America…

…this moment but he seems to remember Vallée being quoted. Invisible wants to make a Marian point: I think an argument could be made that, at least in Catholic Europe,…

…south-eastern Asia but spread east and west (within the tropics) and was rapidly adopted by neighbouring cultures who grew or traded the sweet drug. It arrived in medieval Europe via…

…Hitler’s killing spree in eastern and central Europe from 1941 onwards; and each chapter is a revelation as, often for the first time in English, details of a holocaust within…