A History Thread

[Bada-Bing!]

She didn't say: "let them eat Cake." And Napoleon wasn't there at her execution.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Human Shadow Etched in Stone - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Didn't get to see this when I was out there, but this is crazy.

 

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[Bada-Bing!]

Man's brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud

The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

Man's brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud

The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.

www.bbc.co.uk

I bet most women are saying that's the average man's brain, pea sized.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

 

[Which Tyler]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Those who want to prevent the teaching of history are intending to repeat it"

 

[AlRums]

John Hemingway: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105

Mr Hemingway, who is originally from Dublin, joined the RAF as a teenager before World War Two.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

JFK files: Last trove of records on president's assassination released

The files are still being reviewed, but have not so far revealed any smoking gun about the US president's killing.

www.bbc.co.uk

80k pages for the conspiracy theorists to pour over to discover what we've known for 60 years. Yes, nice way to distract your nut case base Trump.

 

[McTallshort]

Any sign of the Epstein files?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Poll tax (Great Britain) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Anyone old enough to remember the Poll tax riots will understand why the Governments have been reluctant to have touched it since.

 

[McTallshort]

Poll tax (Great Britain) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Anyone old enough to remember the Poll tax riots will understand why the Governments have been reluctant to have touched it since.

I remember the pole tax riots. Pretty much sealed Maggie's fate. Aren't they just what we call council tax now?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

I remember the pole tax riots. Pretty much sealed Maggie's fate. Aren't they just what we call council tax now?

Yep and hasn't changed since. I vaguely remember it as I was still in school and thought at the time WTF. But yes, never forget Maggie leaving office in tears.

 

[BrokenWing]

Poll tax was per person(taxpayer) rather than property

 

[McTallshort]

Yep and hasn't changed since. I vaguely remember it as I was still in school and thought at the time WTF. But yes, never forget Maggie leaving office in tears.

Will never forget the bloke smashing a scaffold pole through the police car window and the copper on a horse hitting someone with a piece of wood.

 

[McTallshort]

Poll tax was per person(taxpayer) rather than property

Ah right.... Yes it was to combat the crazy rate charges for property owners wasn't it? But was rolled out pretty badly

 

[AlRums]

Poll tax (Great Britain) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Anyone old enough to remember the Poll tax riots will understand why the Governments have been reluctant to have touched it since.

Cheeky git, it's not that long ago.

I can also remember the Falklands war, and TV reporting from Vietnam.

And the moon landing, Charles investiture as POW, but not Kennedy.

 

[McTallshort]

There is a brilliant podcast on the Rest is classified about the intelligence picture before the Russians invaded Ukraine. It goes into all the meetings and the mindsets of players and how the legacy of WMDs in Iraq led to a lot of scepticism among some of Americas then Allies about whether Putin was serious or not when the head of the CIA had met Putin in 2021 and come back and said yes it's going to happen. Really worth a listen.