Dennis is going to do Pirates.
One of my favourite quotations (pinned up on the wall of more than one firm where I have worked) is that supposed to have come from the log of Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard:
Such a day, Rum all out:- Our Company somewhat sober:- A Damned Confusion amongst us! – Rogues [...]
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…and a bottle of rum
Posted in history, tagged pirates on 15 March, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Modern history, or merely political indoctrination?
Posted in history, tagged WWII on 12 November, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Patrick Vessey, at the LPUK unofficial blog, remarks on a story in the Times about how every secondary school is going to have to send at least one teacher away to be trained as a ‘Holocaust specialist’.
The comments on the Times piece divide into two main groups: one says “Hey, what about [insert another atrocity]?, [...]
