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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Vikings Season Five Starts Tonight

Sharpen your battle axes! (Or at least buy them dinner!) Season five of Vikings starts tonight on the History channel.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Today is the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta

Jun 15th, 1215

Update: From the June 15, 2013 Quote du jour:

As a nation we take these things for granted. On a recent trip to Lincoln, ostensibly to visit the magnificent medieval cathedral, I found myself alone in a room in the nearby castle where one of only four original copies of the 1215 Magna Carta is kept. There was no queue to get in, no crush of people jostling for a view.

Yet in 1939, when this very document was put on show for just six months in the British Pavilion at the World Fair in New York, an estimated 14 million people went to see it. When war broke out, it stayed in America, locked away in Fort Knox for safe-keeping.

-Philip Johnston

Friday, June 6, 2014

"Surviving D-Day"

There is some repetition in the presentation, brought about in part for having originally been for broadcast TV, with commercial interruptions. Still, if you've got the time, a very solid presentation of fact, some well known and some little known, to help in our remembrance of the sacrifice of that day.