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World War One wasteland: Haunting rare images show apocalyptic destruction on the Western Front | Mail Online

Incredible images of the devastation of WW1. World War One wasteland: Haunting rare images show apocalyptic destruction on the Western Front | Mail Online.

The Cottingley Fairies Hoax

Shameless blurb for my other blog titled Church, State, Faith and Culture. This entry is titled Snow Angels, Fairies and the Supernatural

The Men Stood Like Iron_Book Review

McClellan: “What are those troops fighting on the pike?” Hooker: “General Gibbon’s brigade of Western men.” McClellan: “They must be made of iron.” Hooker: “By the Eternal, they are iron! If you had seen them at Bull Run [2nd Bull Run] as I did. You would know them to be iron. McClellan: “Why, General Hooker, […]

The “2nd German” 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

The 2000 census shows that 53% of Wisconsin’s population claims some German ancestry. During the Civil War a number of regiments consisted primarily of soldiers of one nationality. The best example is probably the Irish Brigade consisting of New England Regiments. Because of the huge number of immigrants from German areas of Europe whole regiments […]

Yet Another Shameless blurb

Link to Part Two of Buy a sword, said Jesus. My other blog titled Church, State, Faith and Culture.

Shameless blurb for my other blog

Link to my other new blog titled Church, State, Faith and Culture. This one titled “Buy a Sword” said Jesus.

New blog blurb

This is a promo for my new second blog titled Church, State, Faith and Culture. Creeping Islam, Creeping Sharia

The Siege of Svigetvar_Hapsburg vs Ottoman 1566

Military History has many examples of where the few stood against the many. The few often paying the ultimate price and dying to the last man. Perhaps the most famous few against the many is the 300 hundred Spartans and 700 Thespians facing thousands of Persians at Thermopylae in 480 BC. But the other day […]