America’s first highjacking
Earnest Pletch was mad on planes and mad on flying. In itself, that was scarcely uncommon in the America of the 1930s, a dozen years after Charles Lindbergh’s solo crossing…
Blonde cargoes: Finnish children in the slave markets of medieval Crimea
The horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade have left an ineradicable mark on history. In the course of a little more than three and a half centuries, 12.5 million prisoners…
fifth part-Plop Andrei – Provoker (Am I a revolutionary? Am I a Spy? Am I a gay? Did I work for interpol? Am I the new Nelson Mandela? Am I a Nazis? Who am I? )
No comments I’m still alive In the spring of 2014 I spent three months in Poland, in the summer of 2015 I spent two months in the Czech Republic, and…
fourth part-Plop Andrei – Provoker (Am I a revolutionary? Am I a Spy? Am I a gay? Did I work for interpol? Am I the new Nelson Mandela? Am I a Nazis? Who am I? )
comments Did I work for interpol? Any soldier involved in military conflicts is a little scared and this is normal Because only sick mental people are not afraid. Any actor…
third part-Plop Andrei – Provoker (Am I a revolutionary? Am I a Spy? Am I a gay? Did I work for interpol? Am I the new Nelson Mandela? Am I a Nazis? Who am I? )
No comments Am I a gay? The Russian embassy in Chisinau has more than a thousand employees, more employees than the presidency of the Republic of Moldova, although in the…
second part -Plop Andrei – Provoker (Am I a revolutionary? Am I a Spy? Am I a gay? Did I work for interpol? Am I the new Nelson Mandela? Am I a Nazis? Who am I? )
No comments Am I the new Nelson Mandela? According to the legislation in force in Belarus you can not stay for more than three days in Belarus without registration, in…
the first part -Plop Andrei – Provoker (Am I a revolutionary? Am I a Spy? Am I a gay? Did I work for interpol? Am I the new Nelson Mandela? Am I a Nazis? Who am I? )
No comments Am I a revolutionary? – the first chapter! It is a course for future revolutionariesI also recommend that the police academy introduce this course for future police officers…
plop andrei – about me
ABOUT ME My name is Andrei Plop and I am from Moldova and Romania. I graduated from the Faculty of International Relations (ULIM) , I studied at the Romanian –…
Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband-killing in 17th century Italy
Early in the autumn of 1791, while he was still hard at work on the great requiem mass that would form such a large part of his legend, Wolfgang Amadeus…
Final straggler: the Japanese soldier who outlasted Hiroo Onoda
Japan’s past met its present, four decades ago, by a river in a rainforest on the island of Lubang. The encounter took place late in the tropical dusk of 20…
The Breton Bluebeard
For very nearly all its course, the Blavet is a placid river. It winds its way through central Brittany: broad, unhurried, gentle and unthreatening, a favourite among fishermen, and –…
Sorcerers and soulstealers: hair-cutting panics in old China
China, in the middle of the eighteenth century, was the largest nation in the world – and also by a distance the most prosperous. Under the rule of a strong…
King, magician, general … slave: Eunus and the First Servile War against Rome
The omens had been terrible that year. In Rome, a slave girl gave birth to a monster: “a boy with four feet, four hands, four eyes, double the usual number…
The bodies in the bogs
In an ancient bog at the foot of a fairy-haunted hill, peat-cutting work lays bare the body of a giant. Carbon dating suggests that the man died at the height…
Dreamtime voyagers: Australian Aborigines in early modern Makassar
If there’s one thing that most people think they know about the early history of Australia, it’s that the continent remained suspended, in unchanging isolation, for countless thousands of years…
‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ HES 2016
‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ HES 2016 ‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ HES 2016 By Maria Williams Maria is a doctoral student…
The Star Spangled Banner—Why It Should Be Our Anthem
As I admitted yesterday I have thought about several things to post about but actually coaching the ideas from my brain and onto the computer screen has been difficult. In…
Veterans Day
Veterans Day Isn’t this a great image for Veterans Day? A very close childhood friend, Kim Rounseville Herrington, shared this image with me and many of her friends. My writer’s…
Changing the Constitution
Changing the Constitution Earlier this month we sidestepped another effort to amend our Constitution. That’s not surprising since there have been approximately 10,000 proposed amendments since 1789. Most of them…
Jefferson Lived Here and Here and Here…
Jefferson Lived Here and Here and Here… I usually have to make a trade off each year in order to claim the privilege of teaching history. The trade off is…