Bill Vaughan Quote – Swap History Books
“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.” – Bill Vaughan
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Cartoon – Coddled Cavemen
Thomas Cahill Quote – History
“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments […]
Read moreCartoon – Codger Of The Future
Hugh Trevor-Roper Quote – History Is Not Merely What Happened
“History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.” – Hugh Trevor-Roper
Read moreCartoon – Changing times
Cartoon – A Very Chagrin Falls Thanksgiving
Antarctica team uncovers century-old artefacts from Douglas Mawson hut
An expedition team in Antarctica has successfully cleared away layers of thick ice from inside the hut of the famous Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, revealing a century-old frozen bowl of peas, books on the shelves, candles, matches and “old-style woolen underwear”. The team used picks and chainsaws to remove the ice that had filled the main living quarters used […]
Read moreNorman Cousins Quote – History is a vast early warning system
“History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
Read moreCartoon – How We Remember our Ancestors
