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The Little Sepia Photograph 23 Oct 2012 | 09:49 pm
Look at the scuffed little sepia photograph below. It depicts young white/European primary school children in Salina, Kansas, USA in 1895. The children seem to have an average age of about ten or elev...
Pussies Riot against Putin from London to Moscow 8 Oct 2012 | 04:29 pm
The following is reproduced with permission from the author, Israel Shamir: Israel Shamir I received a letter from the Arts Editor of the Morning Star asking for my permission to re-publish my popular...
Media humbug on ‘Pussy Riot’ 8 Oct 2012 | 04:10 pm
An insight into the campaign against Russia for refusing to join the American-Jewish hegemony Martin Webster Below is a posting from Israel Shamir, Editor of the ‘Shamireaders’ Yahoo Group. I do not a...
The Titanic Disaster – 100 Years On 20 Apr 2012 | 09:13 am
This is being uploaded to this blog just over 100 years to the day since RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on 14th April 1912 and sank just 2 hours and 40 minutes later. In those 160 m...
Save Our Ancient Games 11 Apr 2012 | 10:22 pm
For hundreds of years villagers in many parts of England (and possibly Ireland, Wales and Scotland too) have taken part in traditional games at certain times of the year. These usually involve kicking...
Book Review – Brave New World 28 Mar 2012 | 09:01 pm
I’ve always been rather suspicious of Aldous Huxley, even though his semi-phrophetic Brave New World was a wake-up call of a kind to a world that even then, in 1931, was well on its way to disaster. H...
December Days of the Month 2 Dec 2011 | 08:05 am
1st – Christians celebrate the start of Advent. On this day in 1797 the seven shilling piece was issued. ‘The swaggering blade who has spent all his money First searches his pockets, then looks ver...
December Rhymes and Miscellanea 2 Dec 2011 | 07:47 am
December was the tenth month of the Roman Calendar. Its name is derived from the Latin decem, ten. The Anglo-Saxons called it Wintemonath, in Gaelic it is An mios marbh – the dead month. In Welsh – R...
November Days of the Month 3 Nov 2011 | 08:54 am
1st – Samhain – a pagan festival marking the transition between summer and winter. This is also All Saints Day and All Hallows Day All Saints brings the second summer, All Saints summer lasts three...
November Rhymes and Miscellanea 3 Nov 2011 | 08:17 am
November was the ninth month of the Roman calendar. Its name is derived from the Latin novem, nine. The Anglo Saxons called it Blotmonath (‘Bloodmonth’) or Windmonath (‘Wind Month’). In Welsh it is T...
