Nine kings at Buckingham Palace
Nine kings – an historic photograph made in 1910 The photograph, still in pristine condition, obviously made by a master photographer, is historic in that it shows no less than nine holders of [...]
The Two Koreas
Distracting the traffic in Pyongyang / koryogroup.com The Korean Peninsula is divided into two, the northern part is officially called The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, while the southern part is simply The [...]
Discovery (Part II)
Usual weather at Tierra del Fuego (rounding Cape Horn) / cleargreengems.com Columbus started his working life travelling in his father’s business. The first long trip was to Chios in the eastern Mediterranean, but [...]
Brief stars in the firmament
/ oocities.org There might have been others, and we will look for them, but the shortest period as a ‘star’ in Hollywood I can discover so far was Roger Herren’s. This promising young [...]
Discovery (Part I)
The Cape of Good Hope / theora.com The Crusades had not achieved very much, had cost a great deal in money and lives, but had at least one merit: they introduced the idea [...]
General History – the first volume
The first Volume of General History as a book is on Amazon For those who are interested the first volume of my 3-volume printed version of articles from General-History.com is on Amazon. Just click on [...]
Balliol, John and Edward
The Old Library at Balliol, an Oxford college founded by the father of John Balliol / balliol.ox.ac.uk John Balliol was born in his native Scotland around 1250, the exact year is uncertain, because [...]
Augsberg (Interim, Confession, League of & Peace of)
Augsberg in 1550 / en-wikipedia.org On the northern tip of the Lechfeld plain in Bavaria, two rivers meet and conjoin – the Lech and the Wertach. Here an occupying Roman called Nero Claudius [...]
The Shogunates of Japan
Yoritomo, first Shogun of many A ‘Shogun’ was a Japanese general of armed forces, but he was also chief of a system of government which dates from the end of the 12th century. [...]
Ptolemys, poisons and Cleopatra
The Furies pursue a Ptolemy for matricide, from a painting by W.A.Bougereau / en.wikipedia.org “There was a lady of Egypt, I’m told The barge she sat in was of burnished gold; Her moral [...]
Sir Oswald Mosley and the Blackshirts
Sir Oswald and Blackshits of both sexes in 1936 / melbourneblogger.blogspot.com Oswald Ernald Mosley was born in 1896 into a family with a baronetcy. He came from ‘the ruling classes’ and later used [...]
Lilibet – a purely American invention
Five of Carolly’s inventions / o.canada.com Intrigued by the title, ‘Lilibet’, I ordered a hard-bound first edition from my online bookshop Bibliophile (how lost I would be with it). I suppose it is [...]
The War in the Pacific
/ pinterest.com Officially, this war lasted from December 1941, / ww2db.com when the United States entered the Second World War, until 1945. But the Pacific War really started with the Sino-Japanese [...]
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
US armada moving towards Leyte / en.wikipedia.org This little-known sea battle was fought between American and Japanese fleets towards the end of October, 1944. Japanese forces were seeking to stop the US re-conquest [...]
Left, Right, Left, Right
From the Left / paradigmas.mx Mention is made in the media (rather too often) of the magic words Left or Right when the subject is politics.The terms originated as follows: The Left came [...]
The first volume of General-History as a book is out on Amazon
Jeremy Taylor a.k.a Dean Swift at home in Tenerife For those who are interested the first volume of my 3-volume printed version of articles from General-History.com is on Amazon. Just click on Books, [...]
After the Abdication – HRH or not HRH?
/ Britannica.com The popular Prince of Wales who should have become the crowned and annointed Edward VIII (q.v.) gave up his throne because Church and State would not recognise his plan to marry [...]
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