Oldest Still Used Clothes November 21, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, ModernStrange History announces a search for the oldest clothes in the world. Or rather the oldest still worn clothes. This is the best we’ve come up with so far. A British soldier has escaped from an Italian prisoner of War camp, 1943, and he has run to the mountains where he has fallen ill. Luckily […]
Eating Prisoners of War? Ten Thousand Years of ‘I Surrender’ August 29, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern, Prehistoric***This post is dedicated to A.G. who sent in the following question*** A.G. writes ‘I have often wondered what happened to the wounded left behind during the Napoleonic wars and earlier. Did the locals come along and kill them for their personal belongings, were they cared for and held for ransom, what? I am speaking […]