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Australian searchers may have located long-lost submarine
Originally posted on The Cotton Boll Conspiracy:
The latest effort to locate the Australian submarine HMAS AE1, lost 100 years ago this month, have proved tantalizing but inconclusive so far. Earlier this month an Australian navy vessel searching for the submarine, which went missing Sept. 14, 1914, with 35 men on board, reported “a contact…
Attila, You Are on the Wrong Side of History
Lecturing terrorists and empire builders that they are on the wrong side of history does not stop them from terrorizing or empire building.
1st Royal Scots Pipes and Drums 1890s
Here’s another postcard that caught my eye at the antique shop. It’s a print of the Pipe and Drum contingent of the 1st Royal Scots, the oldest regiment in the British Army. The publisher was Valentine and Sons. Valentine and Sons were Victorian era publishers of postcards and grew to be Scotland’s largest. The uniforms […]
History and Hobbies 
Scotland the Brave_a Tribute
As a “Yank” I’ve never had a horse in the race regarding the movement for Scottish Independence from the UK. Frankly, I’ve never understood the argument from the secessionists but certainly have recognized the “William Wallace” pride associated with being Scottish. Soooo, it has seemed to me that the two countries are better off with […]