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Scans Of Margaret Thatcher's 1959 General Election Campaign Leaflet For Finchley
“A vote for any other person is a vote for a Socialist Government. Do not shirk from this issue.”
politics  margaretthatcher  history 
june 2011 by linkmachinego
Searching for Saddam
A five-part series on how social networking led to the capture the Iraqi dictator.
iraq  history  war  toread 
june 2010 by linkmachinego
Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When asked in 1998 how he had become such a good shot, he answered, "Practice."
wikipedia  war  history 
march 2010 by linkmachinego
In Our Time - Archive by Title: A page 1
A complete archive of the BBC's In Our Time presented by Melvyn Bragg
radio  history  culture  science  inourtime  radio4  documentaries 
february 2010 by linkmachinego
Oct. 8, 1582: Nothing Happens ... in Catholic Lands
'...resetting the calendar so the equinox would come in late March needed a more drastic solution: 10 days would have to be skipped, erased, eradicated, obliterated, wiped out of existence.'
science  history  calendar 
november 2008 by linkmachinego
Television Under The Swastika | Smashing Telly
'Pop culture done by Nazis, the banality of showbiz evil.'
tv  history  towatch 
august 2008 by linkmachinego
Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan Debating 1968
Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan expound on violence, alienation and the electronic envelope. The clash of two great minds. (1968)
history  tv 
april 2008 by linkmachinego
Rob Newman's History of Oil
Rob Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage. Also discusses gaylord tennis.
funny  history  humor  iraq  politics  uk  war  oil  robnewman 
may 2006 by linkmachinego
Any Officer Who Goes Into Action Without His Sword is Improperly Dressed
'In 1940, some of the German commanders who were overseeing the push into France began to receive seemingly random reports of soldiers having been killed with broad-head arrows or hacked with a English Claymore.'
ww2  war  people  history 
may 2006 by linkmachinego
Schizofrenia and Cat Drawings
examples of the cat pictures Louis Wain
art  history 
december 2005 by linkmachinego
Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, "Intellectual Marijuana"
"Every hour spent in reading comics is an hour in which all inner growth has stopped." -- Marya Mannes.
comics  history 
december 2005 by linkmachinego
Maunsell Towers
haunting pictures of derelict army sea forts in the thames estuary
history  ww2 
november 2005 by linkmachinego
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it.
history  mac  tech 
may 2004 by linkmachinego

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