What do these seemingly unconnected people have in common? The answer may well surprise and shock you to the core. The story begins in the late summer of 1888, the heyday of Queen Victoria’s reign, in the gas-lit streets of […]
Ask most people about King Arthur and the response you will likely elicit is that he never really existed and is simply ‘a legend’. I should like to ask in all seriousness, how are these ‘legends’ propagated in the first […]
It would appear obvious to anyone with even a semi-functioning brain that Gerry McCann with his known direct or indirect links to Gordon Brown had either some sort of ‘hold’ on Brown and/or he was calling in favours in return […]
Many people believe that ‘Michelle’ Obama is not all that ‘she’ seems. Judging by ‘her’ mannerisms and physical looks alone, there is enough evidence to ask questions. Indeed, some say that Michelle Obama, ‘First Lady’ of the US, was born […]
The Horror of Soviet-Style Censorship Has Come to Amazon This Week “I just called Amazon’s corporate headquarters in Seattle and spoke to a receptionist named Chris. I expressed my shock and displeasure over the unannounced removal of scholarly works of […]
One month after Abraham Lincoln was sworn-in as the 16th President of the United States, the American Civil War officially began on the 12th April 1861, when Union troops were attacked by Confederate forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, after South Carolina […]
The Allies clearly intended to use chemical weaponry in WW2 and whilst Germany was forbidden under the Versailles Treaty to produce or import chemical weapons; at the outbreak of war, both sides had poisonous gas shells. However, the pre-emptive use […]
After Germany’s initial, westward onslaught towards Paris was brought to a halt, the Western Front settled-down into a bloody stalemate with trench lines that would change little until 1918, and stretching from the North Sea coast to the Swiss Alps. […]
George Orwell (real name Eric Blair) wrote ‘1984,’ a grim novel of future totalitarianism in 1948. This and his satirical, political novel, ‘Animal Farm,’ described succinctly the mechanisms of oppression and distortion of the truth by the state and the realities of political […]
On the 27th / 28th April 1944, more American soldiers died in a D-Day rehearsal, than on the 6th of June at Utah Beach. Attacks by German torpedo boats and ‘friendly fire’ cost as many as 1500 American servicemen’s lives, and yet the […]
