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BBC Radio 4 – Ramblings, The Golden Road, Pembrokeshire
A boggy adventure in the Preseli Hills of west Wales. Clare explores part of a challenging route in the Preseli Hills taken by hardy cattle drovers who, over generations, would walk herds of two to three hundred animals from Pembrokeshire … Continue reading
Killer whales taking food from fishing lines reveal something intriguing about human evolution | The Conversation
Nature Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo To a group of hungry killer whales, a longline fishing boat looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet. Who would go off to try and catch a fish if a sushi buffet had been laid on? Not … Continue reading
Meet Haddon Salt – the would-have-been Colonel Sanders of fish and chips | Aeon Videos
Haddon Salt, the ‘Colonel Sanders of fish and chips’, and his salty story of the fast-food empire that never quite was In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the serendipitously named Haddon Salt was well on his way to … Continue reading
Archeologists Unearth a Roman Glass Bowl Dating Back 2,000 Years in Pristine Condition | Colossal
JANUARY 27, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images courtesy Marieke Mom Sitting a few miles from the German border, Nijmegen is the oldest city in The Netherlands, and after a recent archeological dig, it’s also the site that unearthed a stunningly … Continue reading
United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
Honour the victims of the Holocaust and take a stand against Holocaust denial and distortion. On 27 January, International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, join the @unitednations @UNHOP in an virtual ceremony. Watch it … Continue reading
Holocaust memorial day: ‘The Nazis experimented on me at Auschwitz’ – BBC News
A woman in her nineties who has been diagnosed with dementia has shared her story of how she escaped the Nazis with her son for the first time. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Alina Peretti was sent to a … Continue reading
An unflinching speech encouraged Germany to face the Nazi past | Aeon Essays
Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History and professor of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Antisemitism in a German Town(2002), The Continuities of German History: Nation, … Continue reading
OBESITY Desirable 40,000 Years Ago?! Venus Figurine
[…] In 2008 a team was led by Archaeologist Nicholas Conard from the University of Tübingen, they were responsible for the discovery of the Venus of Hohle Fels which is dated to be between 40,000 and 35,000 years old. This … Continue reading
Why the Pentagon is a pentagon
t’s pentagon time! Honestly, this free DOD book had everything I needed: https://history.defense.gov/Portals/7… That said, here’s a nice pop history I used (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3Kfzw97 Here’s the breathless (and awesome) coverage in Popular Mechanics: https://books.google.com/books?id=WNY… Here’s a ton of construction … Continue reading
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