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Charmingly Quaint

October 6, 2015 No Comments

This old country home has remained largely unchanged since the 1940’s. It reminds me of my childhood – sitting by the fire in my old house and in grandparents and the homes of older farmers in the area. Lovely memories. We had those tiles in our kitchen, kept them well polished which made for a […]

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History Human Rights

“That is me on the beach. That’s you.”

September 4, 2015 No Comments

When photographer John Stanmeyer first saw the viral picture of the drowned Syrian toddler who washed up on a Turkish shore, his reaction was probably just like yours. “I happen to be a photographer multiple levels after just being a human,” says Stanmeyer, a National Geographic contributor who has been covering the Syrian refugee crisis […]

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Bits & Bobs History Technology

The New Old

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 No Comments

Found these while poking around the warehouse earlier. Windows 95 installer, all thirteen disks! Twenty years young.

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Advertising Arts History Photography Places & Travel

Five Old Ways

August 14, 2015August 20, 2015 No Comments

Charming old tourism poster spotted in the Railway Bar, Clifden:

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History Human Rights War

Srebrenica, July 1995

July 7, 2015 No Comments

This makes for horrifying reading: New research reveals that Britain and the US knew six weeks before massacre that enclave would fall – but they decided to sacrifice it in their efforts for peace “On 2 June, Mladic ordered a “destruction of the Muslim forces in these enclaves”. Voorhoeve insists that western leaders knew of […]

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Do Not Adjust Your Set History Sport

A Nation held its’ breath…

July 1, 2015 No Comments

Twenty-five years ago, on the 25th of June, 1990, Packie Bonner made that momentous save that brought Ireland to the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup. We really did hold our breath for that moment. It was incredible, I’ll never forget watching it. A moment when you thought we could do anything.

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History Military War

“All those buried here in Halbe were very young people, some didn’t even know how to spell Wehrmacht but were drafted all the same.”

May 6, 2015 No Comments

Seven decades after the second World War ended in Berlin, Germany is still burying its dead. And here in the military graveyard in Halbe, an hour southeast of Berlin, hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to the latest soldiers to join the 27,000 already lying here.Most lost their lives here in […]

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Arts History Sounds

May 1st, 1995: Supergrass – Lenny

May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 No Comments

20 years ago today, ‘Lenny’ was released. I got into Supergrass later that summer, ‘I Should CoCo’ was my background theme track for much of 1995. It’s still good after all those years. Via the one and only Mick Quinn

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History Parenting & Children Society

Children and Play in the Holocaust

March 5, 2015July 10, 2015 No Comments

Jason Kottke has been doing some reading on children and play, specifically Peter Gray, and has posted a fascinating snippet: In a chapter on the role of play in social and emotional development, Gray discusses play that might be considered inappropriate, dangerous, or forbidden by adults: fighting, violent video games, climbing “too high”, etc. As […]

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Films History Oddities

Bus Stops of the former Soviet Union

February 18, 2015February 20, 2015 No Comments

Some quirk for the day – An obsession – brutal, beautiful bus stop design of the former Soviet states on Vimeo.

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Murf

Charmingly Quaint

“That is me on the beach. That’s you.”

The New Old

Five Old Ways

Srebrenica, July 1995

A Nation held its’ breath…

“All those buried here in Halbe were very young people, some didn’t even know how to spell Wehrmacht but were drafted all the same.”

May 1st, 1995: Supergrass – Lenny

Children and Play in the Holocaust

Bus Stops of the former Soviet Union

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