Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…money in the Imperial palace. He naturally took part. We are never going to find the Twelve Caesars mark two, but we can dream. Other lost books and burning libraries:…

…the Greek translation of the original late Babylonian). Other burning libraries: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com Biblio: Shlomo Pines, Collected works of Shlomo Pines: Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek…

…libraries (books that have not existed save in the imagination) and perhaps there is also a place for invisible speeches, speeches that were only ever made in fiction. The following…

…the original margins: for example, the Greek words taught to Anglo-Saxon students in the seventh-century by Theodore of Canterbury. There is even – in homage to Invisible Libraries – Invisible…

…called Gwenllian who fought against the Normans. There’s some historical information here plus a ghost story.’ Invisible also has a host of examples: ‘Not quite Amazons, but like the Dahomean…

…as the self-concentration of religious ecstatics.’ Thanks to Roy and Invisible! 25 Oct 2011: Over the last months Southern Man, Invisible and Leeds Laura have all written in to report…

The Oregon Trail is one of those endless low budget cowboy flicks that were trundled out in the 1930s: the original action films with moral certainty and moral scenery; oh…

Historical blindspots: every age has them. Take the relative lack of interest in folklore prior to the eighteenth century. When folklore heats up in the later nineteenth century you cannot…

…inevitable experience. Living in a country where libraries are somewhat lacking and studying things that are rarely represented in those libraries this blogger has to buy a lot of academic…

…readers of Beachcombing will understand that Beachcombing – with his enthusiasm for invisible libraries and burning libraries – was desperately excited by the collision of such an exciting theme and…

…comes Invisible: ‘Hmmm, a pretty problem, your episcopa. I am woefully ignorant of 4th-9th century Roman church history, but I can tell you that your statement about heretics, Montanists or…

…12: Andy the Mad Monk and Invisible write in with a Swedish version of the obscene name problem. Invisible adds: On a similar note, Vicks VapoRub, a decongestant remedy, had…

…boat would slip off, so filled with invisible passengers, it seemed almost ready to sink.” [Paul Sébillot: Legendes locales de la Haute Bretagne, Nantes, 1899, I, ix.] Invisible also included…

…and follow similar arcs.’ Thanks Invisible! 14 May 2012: Invisible now writes in: ‘The day after your post on the German stone-throwing poltergeist my copy of Poltergeists: A History of…

…I have significant doubts. 1862 to 2012….150 years. But surely someone will top that.’ Invisible writes: ‘On the oral tradition. My great-great-great-Grandfather Oliver was killed at the battle of Chickamauga,…