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Politics » History | By Steve Tallamy @ Friday, 15th August 2008 @ 12:58 AM

The village Green has always been at the heart of life in Historical England, serving the needs of the village inhabitants a various guises. It is such a shame that so many of these marvelous green spaces are now neglected or abused. Originally developed in Anglo Saxon settlements as places where livestock could be protected or the green used as common grazing ground the village green has developed over the centuries into a center of village life, equally as important as the village chur... more...

Politics » History | By Steve Tallamy @ Wednesday, 13th August 2008 @ 12:22 AM

The story tells that the streets of historical London are paved with Gold but to be honest I am not sure whether that is really the case as I have never found any. However what I can tell you is true that the streets are wealth of historical interest, telling their own story of the development of one of the greatest cities in the World. From Roman inhabitation up until the present day the streets of historical London reveal golden nuggets of history for everyone to appreciate and enjoy.more...

Politics » History | By Steve Tallamy @ Tuesday, 12th August 2008 @ 7:54 PM

If you want to capture the making of historical England there is no better place to look than London. Its history is a microcosm of the rest of the country and can be likened to a leader of fashion, what London did one day the rest of the country and indeed other countries followed the next. London was at the heart of the Roman and Norman invasions so was always at the forefront when it comes to the development of historical England. No surprise then that it became and still it one of th... more...

Politics » History | By Steve Tallamy @ Tuesday, 12th August 2008 @ 7:54 PM

Why do I have a passion for historical England? A very easy question to answer when you think of all the drama, intrigue, courage and passion, all of the heroes and villains, Kings, Queens, rebels, artists, highwaymen, bishops and scientists. that have been a part in the shaping of England and its rich historical past. Little wonder that Hollywood has celebrated many a box office hit with films based on tales from historical England! Just think of Brave Heart,Elizabeth, Robin Hood Prince... more...

Politics » History | By Steve Tallamy @ Tuesday, 12th August 2008 @ 7:54 PM

Most people tend to think of the beginning of historical England as around the time of the Roman invasions, but it starts way before then. The dawn of English history can be put right back to 8000 BC and beyond, Back to the time of the great Ice Ages when England was still connected to the rest of Europe and what we now call Scandinavia. Very simply the dawn of historical England can be summarized like this, remember I am no academic so please do not write to complain about any minor dis... more...

Politics » History | By Joelyn Pullano @ Monday, 11th August 2008 @ 1:51 AM

The concept of riverine forces was not new to Southeast Asia. During the Indochina War of 1946-54, French forces created the Dinassauts, which were combat organizations designed to operate in the hostile environment of Vietnam's waterways. These employed a variety of modified landing craft in the fire support and stop and search roles. When the first South Vietnamese Naval units were established in 1955, their River Assault Groups (RAGs) took over the equipment. By 1964, the RAGs posse... more...

Politics » History | By Joelyn Pullano @ Tuesday, 15th July 2008 @ 1:50 AM

A flack jacket is a form of protective clothing in the design of a vest. It is used to provide protection from shrapnel and other indirect low velocity projectiles. The flack jacket was originally developed by the Wilkinson Sword company during World War II to help protect the Royal Air Force air personnel from flying debris and shrapnel. The jacket consisted of manganese plates sewn into a waistcoat made of ballistic nylon- a material engineered by the DuPont Company. The flak jackets ende... more...

Politics » History | By Attila Jancsina @ Thursday, 10th July 2008 @ 12:58 AM

The attack was a direct response to suppression aid by the people of Kansas to the Missouri raiders, which were led by Quantrill, a member of the pro-slavery Confederate forces. Lawrence is also where Union and Jayhawker forces get a headstart when they enter into Missouri. Before the Raid The raid was partly caused by the issuance of General Thomas Ewing Jr.'s General Order No. 10. The order commanded authorities to arrest anyone who is found sympathetic to Quantrill's c... more...

Politics » History | By Attila Jancsina @ Friday, 20th June 2008 @ 6:41 AM

Oscar Arias is the current president of the country of Costa Rica. He first assumed office on May 8, 2006 and is currently serving his second term. He had first been elected president on May 8, 1986 and served until May 8, 1990. For more information on Costa Rica, check out ToucanEstate. President Arias is best known as one of the driving figures behind the end of the Central American civil wars during the 1980s. For his efforts, Oscar Arias Sanchez received the Nobel Peace Price in 1987.... more...

Politics » History | By Rachel Yoshida @ Wednesday, 11th June 2008 @ 8:54 PM

For centuries the printed word has been able to sway people one way or another in many cases all because of what they read. When there is a headline printed people pay attention. They usually automatically assume that if it makes the front page of the newspaper that it must be true. In the majority of cases it will be at least partially correct. Newspaper print especially can create a stir by whatever is printed in it. Newspapers have brought the news of wars began and wars that have end... more...

Politics » History | By Shane Dayton @ Monday, 9th June 2008 @ 11:35 AM

Greek Fire, also known as Byzantine Fire, Greek Byzantine Fire, and Sea Fire, was a terrifying naval weapon mastered by the Greeks and the Byzantines during early Medieval times. This may be the earliest form of naval napalm, and allowed their ships to fight with fire, with some claims that there was so much fire that it seemed like they could light the water itself. The Byzantines usually used it in naval battles to great effect, and their opponents' ships generally couldn&... more...

Politics » History | By Bob Alexander @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 12:16 AM

There were no Catholics in our town before JFK. If there were, none of the kids in my gang knew about them. It was rumored that they had a church in town somewhere behind the local A & P, but I never found it. I was already in my teens before I saw my first real life Catholic. He didn't look much different than me, but my mother acted like I had spoken to the anti-Christ himself! As a kid growing up in the south in the early '60s, our church was the spiritual center of our ... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Friday, 16th May 2008 @ 8:57 AM

Chinese antiques civilization evolved very separately from influences from the west until modern times, and those were more of warships and gunboat diplomacy by the west to intrude itself into commerce of the Orient. The west has much to feel shame about in it's treatment of China, as does Japan, and for which China never ceases to remind all guilty parties. This has become such an ingrained self defence mechanism that China continues to use it to this day, whether it holds the high moral g... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Friday, 16th May 2008 @ 8:32 AM

Chinese antiques have delicacy and intricacy that can amaze and delight. To view such pieces is to deeply appreciate that such an ancient civilization was creating such intricacy when most of the world, including Europeans lived in caves and trees is to appreciate the rich depth of the Inner Kingdom. And yet as the present leaders remind us, this great civilization did not involve democracy, and they see no need to have it intrude into their eastern ways, which have worked so well for so long. ... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Monday, 12th May 2008 @ 1:22 PM

Japanese antiques follow the pattern of their mother China, in that as peoples poured out of Africa some million years ago, they took on various characteristics, whether the golden peoples of the east who also poured over into the America's and became brown, or the Indo European groups that spread west into Europe, becoming lighter skin and blue eyes as their more northern lives now required more sun absorbtion. In original humanity Africa, equitorial peoples retained their dark skins to le... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Tuesday, 8th April 2008 @ 7:43 PM

It will take some brilliant thinking, a collection of diamond minds, to ever hope to bring us back to blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long. We enjoyed that in our happy days youth, before all the modern progress. Then, it seems, we matured away from the massive amounts of humanity that traveled by train up into the 1950 era. Never since has America or the world had more people on the move, on the train, on their way from coast to coast with no refrain. We see movies of that era, whic... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Friday, 4th April 2008 @ 11:40 AM

Diamond minds comes to us rarely, and to enjoy any quality lifestyles were a challenge during the lifetime of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Events that unfolded during these years created general boundaries for the modern world new and old. By then a fellow citizen of what would become Italy had opened up a new world, while Leonardo was some times forced to move to Avignon in France while armies of Florence fought off Venice who fought them all off. In fact in one of these flights for a more he... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Saturday, 29th March 2008 @ 7:13 AM

Healthy lifestyles have been on the news today. First we saw a video of a day in the newly created city of ten million people people on the Pearl River delta near Hong Kong in China. We see a before photo of a quiet rice farming valley, and then as it is now. a valley of high tower buildings with a massive harbor, apparently with that vast harbor in Japan, now largest harbor in the world. How did this happen in a decade? China basically recreated and doubled nearby Hong Kong. They allow... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 11:56 PM

The power in this story is that this happened 230 years before the birth of Christ and Christianity, and that many more years before before the birth of Mohammed and Islam. But it was within the time that we knew disciples, or followers of Buddha had arrived this far west, and had certainly reached Egypt to Greece, as Aristotle to Alexander, and it trickles down to us. But who was this holy man at an oasis, so respected and revered in Egypt at this time, to cause mighty Alexander to go s... more...

Politics » History | By Derek Dashwood @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 6:51 AM

So, here you are in a Greek antiques shop far north of Athens but still in Greece, in Macedonia. You Hold two figurines: one of a Greek Amazon Female Warrior, the other a model of an princess from Persia. You wonder what these two have in common, so you ask the shop keeper. It is a quiet moment, so he sits you down and makes you a cup of tea, and tells you his story. His ancestors are of the family of those who were close to Alexander the Great. He leans forward and as if in telli... more...