Today I have hand wrapped some beautiful pictures taken by Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev (born 1858). The collection appears to be from some kind of religious pilgrimage but his body of work covered many aspects of Russian...
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I was perusing a Russian general interest website the other day and came across a set of pictures of the monastery featured here. There was little detail written about it and I couldn’t find any...
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These lovely aerial photos of Kazakhstan are impressively dramatic but unfortunately the website which hosted them didn’t explain where they were or who took them. But I liked them enough to share. Kazakhstan is one...
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I was recently sent a link to an author and research fellow at the Open University – Rosalind Crone. Crone has special interest in sneaky Victorian food manipulation. Her recent research has dug up some interesting...
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A couple of thousand of reenactment buffs turned up to the English Heritage History Live event the other day in Northamptonshire. People were dressed in English military garb from across the ages. Here are...
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This isn’t a joke, there really is a Nazi, Hitler themed cafe called Soldier Cafe (Soldaten Kaffee) in Indonesia. This oddly furnished cafe resides in West Java’s provincial capital of Bandung. It sounds nuts,...
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Macau, or Macao, is another place in the world I hadn’t heard of until recently. Some wonderful person from Macau accidentally clicked on lazerhorse.org the other day and my curiosity got the better...
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Vlad the Impaler is a household name throughout Europe and beyond. He has become synonymous with the vicious and the blood thirsty. But despite his infamy, I really didn’t know much about him, other...
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Eskimos, or Inuits as they prefer to be known are a group that developed in Alaska around 4,000 years ago. Braving the harshest of conditions, and despite all odds, managing to thrive. Although...
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Something that always gives me great pleasure is getting visits on my site from countries I’ve never heard of, and recently I got a visit from Réunion Island. I’d not come across Réunion so I had a look at it....
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