Last month I touched on the Hidden Hand, an alleged German conspiracy during the First World War, supposedly undermining the British war effort from within. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately!) my sources don’t include some of the more extreme publications pushing this conspiracy theory, but I …
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The enemy within
http://airminded.org/2009/01/08/the-enemy-within/2008 Clios
http://airminded.org/2009/01/02/2008-clios/A bit earlier than usual, the winners of the 2008 Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogging of the past year have been announced. They are The Edge of the American West (best group blog), Northwest History (best individual blog), Wynken de Worde (best new blog), Tenured Radical (best post), Walking the Berkshires (best series of posts), and Zunguzungu (best writer). …
Gort of the interplanetary police force
http://airminded.org/2009/01/01/gort-of-the-interplanetary-police-force/[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.] I recently rewatched one of my favourite science fiction films, The Day the Earth Stood Still — the 1951 original, of course, not the currently-screening remake (which I have yet to see, but tend to doubt that it will improve over the original in any area other than special effects). …
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Centauri Planets: Year-End Thoughts
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=5304t say that our hypothetical extraterrestrials will have missed much. Addendum: Anyone who enjoyed the 1951 original of The Day the Earth Stood Still will want to read Brett Holman’s comments on the film in his superb Airminded blog. I particularly like his last line: “I do wonder just how credible a threat is a fleet of flying saucers flown by robots who can be pacified simply by speaking the words ‘Klaatu barada nikto‘?
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Danger Room - Wired Blogs
http://blog.wired.com/defensewith a tear of the forward ballonet which necessitated deflation of the envelope. The second airship broke in half and crashed following a circumferential failure of the envelope originating at the bottom of the envelope, forward of the car. [Photo: Airminded]
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Cliopatria Awards 2008: Best Writer
http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/cliopatria-...st year and with good reason. If you want to show an example of what history blogging can do then that, or the 2006 winner Blog Them Out of the Stone Age, should be near the top of the list. 2007 was an off-year but Civil Warriors won best group blog. My nomination is Brett Holman. Brett Holman takes what looks like a parochial subject and uses it to explore much wider questions about what society was like and why events unfolded the way they did in early twentieth century Europe. It’s a skill to be able to move from the
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Australia Felix · · 01. Welcome
http://www.jbentham.comPingback from Airminded · Bentham & Web 2.0
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Life On My Planet.
http://lifeonplanetme.blogspot.comSome Links: Picture of Hendon Tendis, taken from here Graph between intelligence / IQ and profession: not as clever as I might think I am The Bucky Clause... is a secret of the comic world. here are the 10 Commandments Of Bono. Can't stand the man, myself. Robbie Williams is into the paranormal.. and here are his posts
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Mystery Airships: The Steampunk UFOs Part Two
http://moonlightinvestigation.blogspot.com/2008/11/mystery-a...phenomenon. The reports continued right up until the outbreak of the First World War and the first waves of real "scareships" which brought misery to our isles. In fact one incident in 1912 when the sounds of an airship were heard flying over Sheerness in Kent (trust me, if you are of right mind you'd want to ensure you flew above Sheerness and not ever touch down there...) lead to questions being asked in Parliament. Another place that was home to a wave of sightings of strange craft was quite a long way away from any possible t
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BibliOdyssey
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.comBritish print - game-board Anonymous and untitled, this lithograph was published in the 1940s*. Notably absent from the curator's notes are the terms 'anti-German' and 'propaganda'. Just an observation. *Brett points out in the comments that the figures depicted in this game print date to WWI and not WWII - the British Museum are changing their notes.
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Spitfire Site News
http://www.spitfiresite.com/bloga million casualties during the first month of the war, 3 million refugees and the majority of the capital destroyed. Brett Hollman, the author of the Airminded blog, is into an unique project connected with the described events. His experiment on post-blogging the Sudeten crisis day by day has been seemingly succesful, and offers a day-by-day account of the events based on contemporary press articles and commentary. I can highly recommend this reading for anyone interested by history of the World War II.
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Civil War Memory
http://cwmemory.comHistory Blogs and Other Sites AHA Blog Airminded Blog Them Out of the Stone Age Boston 1775 Easily Distracted Edge of the American West History and Education History is Elementary History News Network Northwest History Past in the Present Religion and American History
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