Tag Archives: history
links for 2007-01-08: farewell Saddam
Thanks for the Memories A brief history of Saddam Hussein (tags: History politics Saddam iraq)
links for 2006-12-08: Benjamin, twins, Tetris, Beckett, Duchamp, chewable contraceptives
Arcades – The Arcades Project Project or The Rhetoric of Hypertext by Heather Marcelle Crickenberger stupefyingly ugly mark-up (another one) but worth delving further into… (tags: walter_benjamin arcades flaneur hypertext) IRISH ‘TWINS’ By PHILIP RECCHIA – New York Post Online … more…
Ackroyd: Disappearances can be deceptive
Peter Ackroyd, on the pretext of reviewing Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances, stories of vanishings in London — strikingly, he barely mentions the book, and offers no opinion at all as to its quality — expatiates nevertheless on … more…
Submarine, 1776
The Turtle by David Bushnel, 1776 (USA) [Chant, 1996]. The Turtle attempted to attach its 150 lb gunpowder charge to the British flagship the Eagle, but failed. – from a collection of illustrations of the history of the submarine. The … more…
The Time of Our Singing
It’s taken me rather longer to finish this book than I’d expected. At about two thirds of the way through, I decided not to read the remainder on the commute, because a couple or three times, it brought me right … more…
Another Egyptian tomb discovery, could be Nefertiti, or not
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP), led by Nicholas Reeves, announced at the end of last month that, only months after the discovery of the first new tomb (KV63) since Howard Carter’s finding the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amun (KV62) in 1922, … more…
Hellfighters movie, and Buddy Bolden
Further to last night’s humungous post on the Harlem Hellfighters, today I’ve stumbled across testimony to the existence, somewhere out there in the world, of Our Hellfighters, aka Our Hellfighters Return (1918), a silent documentary short. No sign of any … more…
Executed WW1 soldiers to be given pardons
Coincidentally, an otherwise unrelated WWI makes the front pages today: All 306 British first world war soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice are to be pardoned, Des Browne, the defence secretary, will announce today. For 90 years, families, friends and … more…