The weak draw
Commander in Chief Minamoto no Kur Yoshitsune† (1159-89), during the shore battle at Yashima in early 1185, drops his bow in the water and struggles to retrieve it even as… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: History
Foxholes, Forests and Felines
Alliteration ftw. My wife had to go into work today. Two broken feet (I imagine) would make driving herself a challenging exercise. Fortunately she has a chivalrous and devoted husband…… Continue Reading
The HMS Olive Branch
‘Okay, lets send them the Olive branch’ *everyone chortles politely* ‘We’re so funny’ -British Admiralty, 1794 A fire ship was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and… Continue Reading
Shadows
It’ll be 75 years since in the US dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki soon. Things that needed to be done right? To save lives… This is… Continue Reading
Outrage
It was one of the most iconic photos taken during the second world war… A Chinese baby crying in a bombed out railway station in Shanghai that had just been… Continue Reading
The 48 graves for 47 Ronin
Hard lockdown is finally over for us… replaced now with… eh… a ranked but broadly obtuse lockdown system that seems to be cobbled from strange bits of personal ideology. That’s… Continue Reading
Summary execution
I often think about this iconic, Pulitzer prize winning photo. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams was on the streets of Saigon on February 1, 1968, two days after the forces of… Continue Reading
Ride for life
There was a time when competitive equestrian prowess included being able to jump a barricade and shoot a straw-man in the face with your Webley. Which, to be fair, does… Continue Reading
The Hemingway
Truth be told I’m not a massive Ernest Hemingway fan. (What sort of person admits to that?) It’s probably because I’m (really) stupid. And most of (maybe all) his stories… Continue Reading