A history of the First World War: No.4 Austria bombs Belgrade and all hell breaks loose.
“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888)” –Otto VonContinue Reading
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History, writing, storytelling, poetry and my conversation with a good friend.
An overwhelming part of our human history is unrecorded. It is quite sketchy for us to know exactly what peopleContinue Reading
A history of the First World War: No.3 The blame game and some thoughts on the July crisis of 1914.
“What decided the German government to prepare for an eventual European War was a crisis that was brewing not inContinue Reading
The Tale of Pomona and Vertumnus
The Romans worshipped an innumerable number of gods and goddesses. Many of these were first deities of the Etruscans whoContinue Reading
A history of the First World War: No.2 Vienna, the scourge of Belgrade/The rise of the assassin/ The aftermath and the anti-Serb riots
Was it coincidental that the young group of Serbian nationalist chose to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914Continue Reading
L’Américain
The month of July has always been for me about the Tour de France. Every summer millions of people likeContinue Reading
The 2000 Incident: Tragedy at Roskilde.
The first ever staging of the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, on the island of Zealand, Demark, was in 1971. ItContinue Reading
From the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that sparked the Great War to an armistice signed in a railroad carriage in the forest of Compiegne… A history of the First World War: No. 1. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
On 28th of June 1914, standing along side of local delicatessen, near the site of the Latin Bridge that stretchedContinue Reading
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
In 1994, a French team of archaeological divers conducted a salvage inspection in the eastern harbor of Alexandria in theContinue Reading
Checkmate! : A brief history of chess.
A few years ago, I sat smirking holding my father over a barrel, while playing a fiercely contested game ofContinue Reading
Rearview Mirror 