100 Historical Things, Number 35

When the war in Iraq was raging, you'll probably remember that there were reports of damage to historical sites and looting of museums, e.g. what happened to the antiquities in the National Museum of Iraq in BaghdadWith the civil war raging in Syria, there have been similar reports, in particular of historical ( Read more... )

Last night I watched Charlotte Gray, a film starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Gambon among others, telling the story of a woman who volunteers to go to the Vichy bit of France during the war for a bit of undercover work. Then, today, I watched an episode of The World at War (the epic 1960s series telling the story of WWII using archive footage ( Read more... )

Hmm, yes, OK...I have a question about the war between Israel and the Lebanon. I'm afraid I've failed miserably to pay attention to anything in the papers about the political side, however much I migh go 'Ooh' when I see the military progress on the news. This is my bad - I have some level of world apathy at the moment ( Read more... )

Today has been spent learning German and putting DW stickers into my sticker book :) Oh, and did I mention that my Mum bought me Pirates of the Caribbean Top Trumps for my birthday? *squee* We played them for quite a while and had fun shouting out things like 'Show me the monkey!' Um, you'd have to have been there ( Read more... )

Um, I watched The Patriot (the Mel Gibson one that's a fantastic film charting family and loss in the American War of Independence - and wow, Jason Isaacs plays a sexy baddie). Remind me to review sometime. Anyway, this got me thinking about how I feel about warfare, because people have challenged me over this a number of times ( Read more... )

*squeeeeeeeeeeee* I now have Rome Total War, and it rocks. Seriously. I didn't install it until about 4 yesterday, so I only got to play the Prologue[1], but it was fantastic. Today I'm going to explore a bit more, though I haven't yet decided whether to launch into a campaign or just play about with random battles to test my tactics. I think I'm a ( Read more... )