Africa: The Minerals that Make the World Go Round

CNN's Market Place Africa analyzes the minerals and gems that come out of African countries and power our cars, electronics, jewelry, ba...

Forgotten Footprints by Rosemary Hayes

FORGOTTEN FOOTPRINTS Red line marks the route of the Zuytdorp When I lived in Australia I became hooked on the stories about the survivors ...

Four Essential Works on the Battle of Passchendaele

Please support Roads to the Great War and read the very best accounts of the Battle of Passchendaele. This is how we keep our free blog rol...

The Passchendaele Battlefield Memorable Names & Sites of Remembrance

Since there was fighting around Ypres in every year of the war, the 160 cemeteries in the area often have casualties from a number of the ac...

A 90th Birthday Party Family Reunion

Yesterday was my auntie's 90th birthday party. That's auntie in 1925 with her sisters and yesterday in her beautiful coral skirt and...

Coast to Coast “pulls it” after Dr. Kevin Barrrett query Coast to Coast cancels conspiracy show at the last minute after Dr. Kevin Barrrett requests fair time to respond

Vatic Note:  After what George Noory did about a year ago, when he interviewed a VP of a private company involved with the US development o...

Blackwater Scandal | The Shadow Military

Vatic Note:  Yes, the military does use private contractors because they can kill people willy nilly without accountability, however, each ...

Tools for Low-tech Mind Control: Decision Landscaping and Choice Architecture

*** oh, they do not like this one.  T hey have reduced the font to so small you can't even read the print.  I am going back through agai...

"Do not gurgle" - by Katherine Langrish

This little book was printed in 1918. It begins: " It is a sign of the times that there is a very large demand for a handy little manua...

Sunday Book Review Roundup

This week Johnathan Yardley reviews   JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President  (Penguin)...

Remembering a Veteran Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers KIA - Battle of Passchendaele

Death of a War Poet: Francis Ledwidge by David F. Beer A Soldier's Grave Then in the lull of midnight, gentle arms Lifted him slowly dow...

Publishing Puzzles in Legal History

It is great to be involved in the blog.   Thanks to Karen for including me!   I have been following the debate over electronic public...

1861 Canadian Census Online at Library and Archives Canada

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has certainly been busy. Their latest online offering is the 1861 Canada Census. Oh how I wish it were the...

Review ~ The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

July 18th Random House UK, Corner Stone Our House. Our Family. And the secrets between us. The Bird family have an idyllic existence living ...

ATTN: RH Negs - Notes about the Basque People - Northern Spain/So France and Aliens

Vatic Note:  Found this little jewel by accident and decided to put it up.  The author made notes from various readings of others research ...