26/04/2015
For the week that's in it...
Gallipoli | Century Ireland
The Battle of Gallipoli was a campaign of World War I that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916
31/03/2015
Happy Hug a Medievalist Day!
Happy International Hug a Medievalist Day!
15/03/2015
Beware the Ides of March! And Happy Mother's Day!
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26/02/2015
Knowth - Megalithic Passage Tomb Co. Meath - A Birds Eye View - With the wintery weather here once again we thought it only fitting to share another one of our aerial photos of this magnificent site, coated with a light serving of snow for good measure! The site attracted 58,566 people to Meath in 2014 and is a "must see" if you've never been. Feel free to share and comment, check out our page Copter View for more aerial views of historical sites in Ireland.
15/02/2015
Newly digitized Vatican documents here...
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Sito istituzionale della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano
06/02/2015
Amazing!
100-Year-Old Box of Negatives Discovered Frozen In Block of Antarctica’s Ice
While restoring one of the exploration huts in Antarctica, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered a box that turned out to be a remarkable treasure. It contained 22 never-before-seen cellulose nitrate negatives documenting the life of Antarctic explorers a 100 years back…
12/12/2014
Shocking
How Greenpeace Wrecked One of the Most Sacred Places in the Americas
Greenpeace can get a little aggressive with its tactics. That doesn't mean that it's not fighting for a good cause! But after the organization marched through the sacred Nazca Lines etched into the Peruvian desert for a climate protest, capturing it all on camera with a drone, you have to wonder wha…
02/12/2014
Local history exhibition you say?
Looking back at Killiney
its people, the community ... an evolving history
12/11/2014
A few voices from World War 2
World War 2
This video is about World War 2