Here is a scathing review about a story of a hypothetical conflict called the "Falklands War," in which the UK and Argentina get in a fight over some small islands in 1982.

It's worth checking out.

Also, WW2 is unrealistic.

Archeologists say they've made a unique discovery in the Czech Republic: remains of a human male from the Copper Age, who was buried in a way traditionally only reserved for females who were part of the Corded Ware culture."From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely ( Read more... )

I was reading Gamespite Quarterly vol 5 (25 years of the NES), and ran across something I didn't know: Apparently the NES was small fry in Europe, which had a strong market with the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Master System all flourishing ( Read more... )

Ever wanted to see all the borders of Europe and how they developed for the last 1,000 years? Now you can.

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It could use time-stamps, but you can guess the eras by noting significant events.

You must read this"...I'm not even going to get into the whole subplot about breaking a secret code (cleverly named "Enigma", because the writers couldn't spend more than two seconds thinking up a name for an enigmatic code), the giant superintelligent computer called Colossus (despite this being years before the transistor was even invented), the ( Read more... )

The Dogger Bank incident/Voyage of the Damned

The story of a naval mission sent by Russia during the Russo-Japanese war in order to get their forces from the Baltic Sea over to fight the Japanese navy. They start out by mistaking British fishing vessels off the coast of Britain for Japanese warships. Things don't get much better from there.

Ancient cultures are so interesting. Look back at the old cultures and they seemed to last for so long, thousands of years at a stretch unlike our modern civilizations which are lucky to last a few hundred. Look closer and you'll see that they DID tend to fall every few hundred, they'd just rise again in the same spot and in the same name because ( Read more... )

I went to the Smithsonian Indian history museum today. I had been there before but only briefly, never really checking out all the floors ( Read more... )

World's Oldest JokesA team of academics were tasked to research the world's oldest examples of recorded humour. Led by humour expert Dr Paul McDonald from the University of Wolverhampton, the team spent two months trawling the annals of history to produce the first report of its kind into the world's oldest recorded jokes ( Read more... )