Super Swimmer Shoots Arrow Down September 8, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient
Here is a remarkable feat of arms recorded as a poem on an inscription, put up in AD 118 on the banks of the Danube by a Roman soldier, Soranus. Given that this is a public statement of the feat, we can assume that it actually happened. This is I, once the best known of […]
The Amphibiotic Ablutionists August 22, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
*** Sorry late, Beach family reunited today*** Diving in the freezing water is now a fairly common guarantee of guts and eccentricity. But in early nineteenth-century England it was the height of weirdness. Beach stumbled on these healthy souls while searching for more information about hydropathy. Beach is going to put up a five dollar […]
