Burning Libraries: Episode Four of the Lost Planet January 19, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Dr Who, which began being aired in 1963, was Britain’s attempt to join the science fiction race. Though less famous than Star Trek, which it preceded by three years, a comparison tells you a lot about the differences between the two countries in the 1960s: the gung ho US and demoralised post-war Britain. Star Trek […]
Admiral Byrd and Nazi Cobblers June 6, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
***Dedicated to KMH who, not for the first time, inspired the hunt*** The following is the record of an interview with American admiral Richard Byrd which appeared in El Mercurio, a Chilean paper, 5 March 1947: it was written by a US journalist, Lee Van Atta, but seems never to have been published in English. […]
Image: Comrade Lenin in Antarctica October 4, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
It was a dull weekend and so Beachcombing is going to give himself a pick-me-up this Monday morning with one of his favourite sports – making fun of the Soviet Union. And what better way to do it than with this fabulous photograph of the southern pole of inaccessibility, the point in Antarctica furthest from […]
