8th June 1941:
The British entered Syria this morning.
From the Orwell Diaries.
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4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 8th 2011
A new satellite survey of Egypt has discovered 17 lost pyramids. The work has been pioneered at the University of Alabama at Birmingham by US Egyptologist Dr Sarah Parcak. The BBC report that more than 1000 tombs and 3000 ancient settlements were also revealed by the infra-red images. The satellites orbited 700km above the earth [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 26th 2011
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I Was a Stranger…
… and you took me in.
This is a window from All Saints Church that can be found within the grounds of Sudbury Hall. A plaque in front of the window gives the following information:
When war was declared in 1939, Manchester like many other cities moved fast to protect its young; living in and near to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 21st 2011
DailyIndia reports that the proposed sight of the Basha-Diamer Dam in Pakistan, holds thousands of ancient rock carvings and inscriptions. If the construction of the dam goes ahead around 30,000 carvings on 5,000 rocks would be affected. Some would be totally submerged and some would be seasonably visible when water levels were low.
Professor Harald [...]
17 Comments CherryPie on May 20th 2011
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32 Foot Statue of Amenhotep III Revealed
Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday.
The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2011
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History Recalls
9th April 1941:
The budget has almost knocked the Balkan campaign out of the news. It is the former and not the latter that I overhear people everywhere discussing. [1]
[1] The budget raised the basic rate of income tax to ten shillings in the pound (50%). Peter Davison
From the Orwell Diaries.
Comments Off CherryPie on Apr 9th 2011
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7th April 1941:
Belgrade bombed yesterday, and the first official announcement this morning that there is a British army in Greece – 150,000 men, so they say. So the mystery of where the British army in Libya had gone to it at last cleared up, though this had been obvious enough when the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2011
