Friday, December 02, 2011

History stuff below the fold

Heritage key posted this video of King Tut (there is a Tut exhibit going around the UK).



and then there is this, about those cute Aryan girls.
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Andrew Cusack notes the difference in what is taken to the space shuttle by British and by Russian astronauts...

we sent dull pop music and bad art, the Russians have one-upped us again. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first man in space, they’ve taken an icon of Our Lady of Kazan aboard the Soyuz TMA-24 mission.





and comments They will bury us, but it will be a Christian funeral.

more on the icon HERE.
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Futuregirl reviews a book on crochet in Jane Austen, and includes a pattern for the sweater in "Becoming Jane".

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A historian reviews a book on how German mythology, new age type ideas, and modern "science" (i.e. eugenics) mixed to make a powerful Nazi ideology.
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Remembering the battle of Marathon.
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