TweetThis week’s Global Museum highlights a story about a new museum that has opened in Nagoya, Japan in memory of Shoichi Yokoi, a former soldier in the Japanese army who returned to Japan in 1972 having spent over 26 years in the jungles of Guam without realising World War II had ended.
Archive | June, 2006
Cornwall culture
Tweet I’ve just added this image and a story to Cornwall Culture, a campaign to find out what Cornwall means to you, us, them. In the section ‘What does Cornwall mean to you‘ there is a virtual pin-board of images each with stories, keywords and comments made by various people who have joined the campaign. [...]
Solstice day's eyes
Tweet Before dawn on 21 June a group of 11 people made their way to a meadow in Wiltshire. The journey was made to found and witness the Circle in the West, a new stone momument that will comprise seven ‘circles’ in homage to Stonehenge. The dawn was clearing as Sun was about to break [...]
On Boundaries
TweetOn Boundaries is a new blog created by my friends gesta and reivers, a medievalist and a mathematical scientist, approaching life, people and the universe from their divers perspectives. If they don’t mind me saying, this will blog will challenge all sorts of rubbish that is believed by lots of unthinking or otherwise ignorant people. [...]
Believe
TweetI don’t like Mars chocolate bars. That they have been temporarily re-named ‘Believe’ makes confirms my dislike of them. They will surely confuse future archaeologists. Considering the widespead disease of lack of staying-power among much of the population, will people still believe if England are routed in the early stages of the World Cup? Let [...]
Ignoring history
TweetHistory repeats itself. Governments / politicians / we never learn from history. We ignore history at our peril. Some of the things commonly said about the consequences of not engaging with history when decisions like going to war are made. Countless people pointed this out in relation to the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq [...]
