Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Dentures from the dead

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To meet the 19th c. European demand for dentures, the mouths of men killed in battle were plundered for their teeth. The human teeth were ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Prehistoric PTSD

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T he first description of post traumatic stress disorder, in which soldiers sometimes hallucinate about the ghosts of men they have kille...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Napoleon's hat

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In the 1801 painting "Napoleon Crossing the Alps” ( IMAGE HERE ), Jacques Louis David depicts the French emperor in his trademark bic...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Pushing Cushing

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When 94-year-old Delafield, Wisconsin, resident Margaret Zerwekh found herself living on property once owned by the family of 1st Lt. Alon...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Back to back

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When 27-year-old Dominic Smee saw images of the crooked skeleton of Richard III , discovered in 2012, he felt as if he were looking at x-ray...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Tabbies in the trenches

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While they didn't have as prominent a place in World War I as dogs and horses, cats served admirably in the ranks. Some half a million...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Papa's pension

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"I didn't care for neither one of them, to tell you the truth about it. I wanted to get away from both of them. I wanted to get m...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Flaming felines

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Last year, the University of Pennsylvania digitized some 16th c. German artillery manuals. Much was made of the illustrations of the ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Mongol monsoons

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Often my posts about past weather patterns are based on evidence from prehistoric times that lends further credence to global climate cha...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Melancholy marbles

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When 83-year-old Toosje Kupers was moving last year, she found some toys she had kept for decades in a cupboard. The book, tea set, and co...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Impervious pillar

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The Iron Pillar in Delhi , India ( DETAIL ABOVE ), is at least 1,500 years old and bears inscriptions dating back to about 400 A.D. The 2...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Crossrail crossbones

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Actually it's just the skulls and not the crossbones which have come tumbling out of a Crossrail tunnel being excavated near Liverpool...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Right arm reunion

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American doctor Sam Axelrad was serving in Vietnam in 1966. When an enemy soldier was shot in the hand by U.S. troops and brought to the h...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Mass grave simulation

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The anthropological research facility at the University of Tennessee, more commonly known as the " Body Farm ," is embarking on ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The living photos of Arthur Mole

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In the photograph above, 21,000 soldiers stationed at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio, were positioned in 1918 to form a portrait of Am...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

In the trenches

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German soldiers of the 6th Company, 94th Reserve Infantry Regiment hunkered down in an underground shelter on the Western Front in the A...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Birds and bombs

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Beatrice Harrison (1892-1965) was a British cellist who studied at the Royal College of Music in London and made her debut in the Bechstein...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Doughboy dog tags

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Frenchmen Michael Jean Toussaint and Claude Fonderflick have been using metal detectors to search for artifacts on World War I battlefields...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Oxbringa från 1940

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There is eating aged beef and then there is eating " oxbringa från 1940 " ( click for translation ), as Swedish senio...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Happy Memorial Day!

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Do you remember this photograph? Back in May 2009, Army Spc. Zachery Boyd - a 19-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas - did not stop to put his ...