The Soccer War of 1969 August 15, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
Beachcombing, po-faced, has to note that most modern historians do not like to refer to the Soccer War of 1969 (La guerra del fútbol) as, well, ‘the Soccer War’. ‘The Hundred Hours War’ or better still ‘the Salvador–Honduras War’ is preferred with a lot of attendant Marxist bilge about poor Salvadoran peasants engaged in class conflict in Honduras. [...]
Elephants in eighth-century Honduras? July 23, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Medieval
For the third night of Elephant Week, ‘the freakish fringe history of the largest land mammal’, Beachcombing wants to share a remarkable series of images relating to Stela B at the Maya site of Copán in what is today Honduras. Professor Elliot Smith’s wrote an extraordinary book in 1924 alleging contact between the Maya and Asia in [...]
