Whee where did you get the mushrooms you put in that omelette?
Interestingly there is a very similar photo of WW1 in Palestine with Australians on the bikes and the side cars armed with a Lewis
Reading the translated diary of a German POW, taken prisoner after D day, in Britain at Christmas 1944 it paints a picture of deep gloom. Allied...
There is/was a down loadable copy on the Internet - that's where I got mine but I no longer have the link I'm afraid and I got it through the...
Known as the boot stripe, thought to have originated when oil burning was introduced and ships picked up waterline stains from floating oil...
If one looks at Pratt, Edwin A, British Railways and the Great War Vol I, Selwyn and Blount Ltd London 1921 this tome contains considerable detail...
When Victoria learnt English as a girl (her first language was German) amuse meant to fool or mislead coming from the same source as bemuse. When...
The Allied deception operations tended to reinforce what Hitler already believed. He thought that an invasion would come through the Pas de Calais...
But if you scan a copy of an SC image from a book and use that the publisher of the book may still have a legitimate breach of copywrite claim...
A regular hospital train service was established to bring wounded from the Channel ports North and the take recovered soldiers South. Extra...
I wonder how he answered if asked the question "what did you do in the war daddy?" ?
They can still find a tomb and doubtless it might contain items of significant archaeological value. 2,000 years tend to add value
As said earlier Octavian snaffled it and presumably took it back to Rome
Read my previous posts - her ashes were interred in a tomb with those of Mark Anthony but it's location has been lost. Her suicide was useful to...
She was a Ptolemy, part of a Greek dynasty founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals when he conquered Egypt - the religious practices and...
There is no evidence of a snake. She and her attendants died probably of poison. Cremation was normal at that period with the ashes in an urn put...
Reputedly ashes entombed with Mark Anthony near Alexandra but AFAIK tomb undiscovered despite frequent false alarms
More or less. Dum dum comes from the fact that the arsenal at Dum dum India for a short time made some 303 rounds with un jacketed bullet tips. In...
Just home (last Wed) after nearly a fortnight in the Acute hospital that serves my area. No I do not like hospitals but they are essential. The...
I was hoping for Proxima Centauri and certainly commercial lunar flights by now.
